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REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS

We meet at Fathers House Church in Longview (1315 Commerce)

at 6:30pm. See each month for specific dates.

Scroll further down this web page for Testing information.

For our view on babies being at meetings, please refer to

the "NOTE TO PARENTS" at the bottom of this page.

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MAIN ACTIVITY

THIS PAGE

OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE UPDATED!

I will try to do this ASAP!!!!

(We just haven't been using this

page regularly ~ obviously!)

(Feb. 14, 2009)

CHILDREN

September

11th,

2008

(Thursday)

First Meeting of new

(home)school year!

Our first meeting of the new

"home school year"!

We thought it would be good to start off the new year with a look at the foundation of why we are homeschooling. Is it a "preference"? Or is it a "conviction"? And how to tell the difference

(We REALLY hope DADS will come too!!!)

Child Care

for Babies.

Time of Fellowship

for Ages 5 and up

October

2008

A Father's

Blessing

A panel

of homeschool dads

will be sharing.

Child Care

for Babies.

Time of Fellowship

for Ages 5 and up

November 2008

Living

Biographies

Our kids will be

doing presentations on

a favorite person.

Child Care

for Babies.

Ages 5 and up will be involved in the presentations

LOCAL TESTING
PRIVATE (ONE-ON-ONE) ASSESSMENTS
DATES	AGE	COST	TIME	PLACE	DETAILS	CONTACT
Available year-round	All ages	$75 for one student, any age	Any time you arrange with Dave	By arrangement with Dave	See Dave's web page here at Homeschool Oasis.	Dave at: dntesting@comcast.net (He was a homeschooling dad himself ~ and ended only because their daughter graduated!)

GROUP TESTING
DATES	AGE	COST	TIME	PLACE	DETAILS	CONTACT
Dates to be announced for 2008 (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday)	For homeschooled students Ages 8-18	$35/student if parent helps with scoring and analysis * ~ OR ~ $65/student if parent does not assist with scoring and analysis * *Add $10 for Level 13 which is consumable.	9:00am to 11:30am on each of the three days	East Kelso Baptist Church This is where our monthly homeschool group meetings are always held.	Pre-registration is non-optional for this. Linda coaches the parents through this as a group, on Friday afternoon, after the testing is done.	Linda & Loren Krenelka (the testers) Email ~or~ Phone: 360-785-4925

~* Note to Parents *~

OUR VIEWS ON CHILDREN AT MEETINGS

Please read

this before coming to

a meeting!

We welcome you to attend the monthly homeschool meetings of our group, LCCEA (Lower Columbia Christian Education Assn.) Our "vision statement" is to "encourage, refresh, edify and equip homeschooling parents as they seek and follow God for the education of their children." To this end, we do not allow distracting children in our meetings. We have provided childcare for children of all ages:

~ There is a nursery for babies/children ages 5 and under.

~ There are class and craft times for children 5 through 15. The 5~15 group will be divided into two groups: "5~9ish" and "10 and up." There will be a craft and a lesson going on in two rooms at same time. The first group goes from 7 to 8, and the second from 8:05ish to 9, with the 2 groups switching activities half-way through the evening.

Those who don't feel comfortable leaving their kids in the children's classes we ask to work out other arrangements for their children, such as with grandparents, a sitter at home, etc.

Many of us have been to meetings where noisy or "visible" children keep those present from fully being able to enjoy and get the most out of the meeting. This problem seems to be particularly common among homeschoolers who are very "pro-children" ~ as are those of us on the LCCEA board; we are all homeschooling parents ourselves.

We do not want to be offensive or hurtful to anyone, but in order to provide a meeting that is refreshing to the group as a whole, and one that makes leading the meeting as easy as possible for those in that position, we have come to the place where, if a child is being at all distracting, we expect the parent to promptly remove the child from the room. (By "distracting" we mean "able to be heard or seen" which would include not only crying, but also fussing, whispering, playing, walking or crawling around, etc.)

If it becomes obvious that we have different views of what exactly is "distracting," one of the leaders of the group will ~ kindly, and as discreetly as possible ~ ask you to remove your child from the room… not because we don't love you or your child, or because we enjoy embarrassing people, or because we want you to miss out on the meeting, but because we have a responsibility to those who have given up an evening of their lives to join us, as well as to those who are serving the group by leading the meeting. None of us relish this responsibility, so we hope you will be sensitive to this and act accordingly.