Isaiah 54:13 "And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children."

Oct. 29, 2009

November 2009 Newsletter

November 2009 Newsletter Coming PCHEA Events: Friday, November 7th Skate Day, 10:30-noon www.Starskate.com RSVP – Ghislaine W. Geography Fair, January ~needs a coordinator and helper~ Capitol Day , February Unofficial PCHEA Lunch ~needs a contact person~ ________________ Repeating Events: (come as you can, note RSVP) Moms' Night Out, second Tuesdays Nancy Schwab Keepers of the Faith third Tuesdays Teresa Burnett Skating and bowling, first Fridays RSVP Ghislaine Washburn Physical Education at OBU every Thursday at noon Cyndi Seeley Hello PCHEA Family!      Hope everyone is enjoying Fall, and all the special celebrations that go along with it. Our Fall Social held at the New Hope Baptist Church, and then later at the Akins' home, was a great success, despite the weather. We all enjoyed the hayride throughout the Akin's back pasture, and the hot apple cider afterwards.      We had a fun dessert contest held at the Shawnee Library. The kids had a blast. The dads had the hard job of picking the winners in each category, and we all got to help eat all the beautiful and yummy creations. Thanks kids, for doing such a great job of baking. Everything was delicious!!      So far this year we have had several field trips, and events, and all have gone well. There are no special events planned for November and December, but we are needing some help with events planned for the early part of next year. Please check out our website, homeschoolblogger.com/pchea , and look under "around the blog/2009/10 calendar of events" for details of upcoming events. There are several that are in need of coordinators or helpers. If interested in helping, please contact Jeri Akin or Nancy Schwab. Happy Thanksgiving!!! Will and Nancy Schwab Skate Day Nov. 6th, 10:30 - noon Star Skate, Shawnee www.starskate.com Come one, come all – be there! This is the last one for 2009 $ 5 per skater if we have at least 40 skaters!!! IMPORTANT: RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 4th gwashburn [at] allegiance [dot] tv High School food drive to benefit the Shawnee Rescue Mission: Our PCHEA high school group is collecting non-perishable goods through the month of October. (Ivy Poe, Michael_Poe [at] att [dot] net) The National Weather Center in Norman will be open to the public on Saturday, November 7th. www.norman.noaa.gov/events/nwf09/ The Oklahoma Homeschool Science Fair entry deadline is Nov. 24th. ou.edu/science Some PCHEA families brave the drizzle and have fun getting lost in the Mikles's maze. 10-21-09 Share your event photos. Create an album, or post to an existing one, at our Yahoo PCHEA group. Or, send pictures to Ruth at eightsmiths [at] gmail [dot] com for posting to homeschoolblogger.com/pchea . Have you missed the invitation to our private group site? Send a note to groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/pcheagroup . Challenge! Get to … groups.yahoo.com/group/pcheagroup save to your favorites, or as an icon on your toolbar. Here you will have access to our monthly newsletter, current member directory, calendar of events, local resource & family business directories, group event photos, curriculum swap & shop, and an archive of postings from PCHEA friends. When replying to posts, from site or e-mail, please delete the original message text, and check where your reply will be sent (to the group, or to the person). Likewise, consider editing your membership to control receipt of group activity. Administrative, & informative announcements, will be sent as special notices – this would be the best choice for basic PCHEA news (You can catch the “extras”, at site, on your own time). If you like constant contact, choose individual e-mail. Or, the daily digest will forward each day's individual posts to you as one. Many of you work PCHEA group from your e-mail because you are not able to log in. Easy site access requires a current Yahoo account (apparently, group communiqué is not account activity). So, … start at one of these for help with this: help.yahoo.com, or groups.yahoo.com

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Oct. 28, 2009

American History Students

Do you have pictures of your children that you would like to share with the PCHEA group?  How about pictures of a field trip or other school activity or event?  Send them to me, and I will post them here on the website!  We all enjoy seeing what other home schoolers are doing!!!  Ruth eightsmiths [at] gmail [dot] com or pcheainfo [at] gmail [dot] com This picture shows the five students who are in my American history class at CFA.  At the end of the first quarter they each wrote a 3-5 page paper on a topic related to the colonial time period and also made a display item related to their topic.  The students did great on their presentations! For more pictures, go here:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pchea/ . Drew, Hunter, Andrew, Belle, Ellen, Ruth (me!)

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Oct. 28, 2009

Skate Day November 4th

Sep. 30, 2009

October 2009 Newsletter

2009-2010 PCHEA Leaders Leaders: Will and Nancy Schwab willsouthwest [at] integrity [dot] com Co-leaders: Fredrick and Jeri Akin Teresa Burnett Secretary: Donna Snyder Treasurer: Dephanie Lilite Newsletter: Susan McMullen Website: Ruth Smith PCHEA website: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pchea October 2009 Newsletter Coming PCHEA Events: Friday Night, October 9th PCHEA Fall Social - new date and location Wed. Morning, October 21st, Shawnee Maze & Pumpkin RSVP-Susan McMullen Thursday night, Oct. 22nd, Dessert Contest Kim VanBebber Geography Fair, January Coordinator? Helpers ? Capitol Day , February Unofficial PCHEA Lunch Point of Contact? Art Show- March Night of Presentations Coordinator? Helpers? OBU Children’s Theatre Field Trip, April (TBA) Point of Contact? Repeating Events: (come as you can, note RSVP) Mom’s Night Out, second Tuesdays, Nancy Schwab Skating and bowling, first Fridays. RSVP Ghislaine Washburn PCHEA Fall Social Friday, October 9th, 6:30P.M. at the Akin's home in Tecumseh. Please bring a main-dish and a dessert or side-dish to share. Paper goods & drinks are provided. We plan to have games for the little un's, volleyball for the big un's, and a hay ride for every body. We look forward to meeting new members and fellowshipping with friends. Dessert Contest in the works For Thursday, October 22nd! Later information via e-mail. Be an Event Coordinator ! We are in need of some coordinators for up-coming PCHEA events. Some of the same people have been coordinating these events and they would like a break!!! Sooooo... If we would like to see these events continue, we will need some volunteers to head them up.  Check our Events Volunteer Sign-Up from the September newsletter or online. Volunteering to coordinate does not mean you are on your own to "make it happen". There is plenty of help for finding locations, how to go about planning, paper goods, etc. Mainly, the job of the coordinator is to send out emails and reminders to the group, secure a location, and plan the activity. The helper is there for you to work with and plan with. It really is not all that scary to coordinate one of these events!!! They have been done before so you don't have to "reinvent the wheel", there is a format in place!! For now we’ll focus on the Geography Fair, sometime in January, and our own Capitol Day family lunch in February. If you would be willing to head up one of these activities please let me or Jeri know ASAP and we can help you with what to do and what is expected. Thank you, Will and Nancy Schwab 2009-2010 Member Directory Soon to be released! Member family information will be available online at our private yahoo site. There is a $3.00 charge to have an actual printed copy sent to your home. A draft will be available at the Fall Social; You are welcome to double check your families information and, if you want, pay for printing and postage at that time. groups.yahoo.com/group/pcheagroup If you have not yet received an invitation to our private yahoo site, your link has expired or you would like help to figure this out, contact Susan McMullen THUNDER MAZE Wednesday, Oct. 21st, 10a.m – 1:30p.m. Homeschool Day at Shawnee Maze & Pumpkin Patch $5 per person Ages 3 and under are free. Group reservation required. RSVP to Susan McMullen. The Oklahoma History Center presents "Home School Day" Monday, October 5, 2009. This special program will run from 10:00 AM through 2:00 PM. It is designed for family learners and home school groups to come, experience, and do! No registration is required and you can join the activities at any time. Best of all it is Free! There will be activities for students of all ages. Special living history programs will take place hourly. Visit www.okhistorycenter.org, or contact Jason Harris, (405)522-0785, jharris@okhistory.org, for information

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Sep. 30, 2009

~Bowling ~ Friday, October 2

Sep. 30, 2009

~Shawnee Fire Clowns~ October 8th