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 .



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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

Posted in PCHEA Events
Skate Day is Friday November 6th!! 
 
10:30 am to Noon
 
Star Skate in Shawnee
 
$5 per skater if we have at least 40 skaters!!!
 
Come one come ALL!!!  This is the last one for 2009, so plan to be there!!!!!!
 
PLEASE  RSVP by Wednesday, November 4!!  This is IMPORTANT!!!

For more information, contact Ghislaine.
gwashburn [@] allegiance [dot] tv
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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

Posted in PCHEA Events


Hello everyone!!
 
I have put this out there before, but I haven't done it with details.  I am sorry for that.
 
This is however the first Friday of October: October 2, and we have our First Bowling Day!!!!  11:00 to ?????????????? at Shawnee Bowl.
 
Good news:  No miminum!!!!  Yeah!!!
 
I am going to contact them today to be sure of this, but Friday's are their cheaper bowling days!!!  $2 per game per person and $1.25 for shoes.  You only have to pay for shoes once, no matter how many games you play.  Cokes, hot dogs, french fries and Nachos are also only $1.25 that day.
 
So here is what I need to know:  ARE YOU COMING!!!!???  AND HOW MANY BOWLERS IN YOUR FAMILY!!!!!!  Can you help with "teaching" others how to use the machines (entering names, etc.)
 
I only need to know if you know for sure, I know this is late notice, but If I can call them by noon tomorrow (Thursday), that would be great!!!!  If you are not sure, don't let that stop you from coming.  They just need to know if they need to Staff up for us!!! :)
 
One other thing that is important:  If you want to bowl with a certain family, then you need to get in line together and pay at the same time!!!!!!!!!  Once a game has been started, it is hard to go back and add other players.
 
Also, if you know how to run the machines, could you be available to help me "teach" others how to do it!!!!  That way it will not take as much time for the ladies at the desk.  Please let me know who you are when you let me know if you are coming.
 
 Ghislaine

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Sep. 30, 2009

~Shawnee Fire Clowns~ October 8th

Submitted by Esther Anderson

Good evening all,

 The Shawnee Fire Clowns will be having their clown show at the Expo Center NEXT Thursday, October 8th I believe at 6:30 p.m. It's for you and all of your family and friends. This year the theme is "Are You Smarter Than a Clown?" taken off the T.V. show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". From the little I've heard of it, it should be pretty funny. Will be in Revival at church so unfortunately we will not be there but I hope you all enjoy yourselves! 

Esther Anderson

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