Offered by: homeschooling moms Janice & Johanne

We will begin to explore the wild, wonderful and wide world of the arts in French.  We will cover basic French vocabulary which we will reinforce each of the 4 weeks. The objective is to inject French learning while doing something fun in the arts.  Hands-on art projects for the children are scheduled for each week.  This is not however a French-second-language-for-newbies class, it's an art class as described in the objectives.  For all ages - parent participation is obligatory.  Please sign up before Wednesday March 31.

This book club is geared toward the younger kids, ages 6-8, so will be more parent-led and include hands-on activities.  The first book will be "Tonight on the Titanic"/"Les dernieres heures du Titanic" by Mary Pope Osborne.  In this meeting, we'll discuss the book, decode a message in Morse code and see how much of an "iceberg" is underwater.  I also have the accompanying "Titanic" research guide from Mary Pope Osborne and we'll talk a little about the difference between fiction and nonfiction and what lessons we learned from the Titanic tragedy.

Youth Book Club - Friday April 30, 3:30 to 4:30pm (date was changed from April 23).

Bibliotheque St-Henri - 4707 Rue Notre Dame O (near De Courcelle) - Just a 5 minute walk from Communidée.

We'll be discussing "Wolves of the Beyond - Lone Wolf" by Kathryn Lasky.  

Offered by: homeschooling mom Jackie Geist

Create your own mythical creature!  Join us to learn about mythical creatures from different cultures and to create your own mythical creature collage and story.  We'll be using examples from "Mythical Creatures" by James Harpur, but please feel free to bring in your favorite books or drawings of mythical creatures to share with the group.  All ages.

June 7-10, 2010 in West Milford, New Jersey.  Details here.

Unschoolers' accounts of how their children taught themselves to read.  The article.

The author, Peter Gray, is looking for stories of self-directed learning.  Find the details here.

Posted by Debbie & Idzie:

Come join us this Summer for a gathering of unschoolers near Montreal, Quebec, Canada!

Youth Book Club - Friday March 26, 3:30 to 4:30pm.

Bibliotheque St-Henri - 4707 Rue Notre Dame O (near De Courcelle) - Just a 5 minute walk from Communidée.

We'll be discussing "Wolves of the Beyond - Lone Wolf" by Kathryn Lasky.  This book club is open to anyone who has read or has the book read to them and would like to join in a discussion.

Please RSVP to jacquelyngeist@yahoo.com.

Monday May 3rd, from 10am to 2pm.  Please sign up before Monday March 29th.

Intermiel is a bee farm and meadery near St-Eustache (almost an hour's drive from Montreal).  We can try to arrange car pools if necessary - let me know if you need or can offer a ride.

We will have a guided tour, workshops and a puppet show, all the while learning about bees and honey!  They will keep us busy from 10am to 2pm, with a break for lunch - (there are indoor and outdoor picnic areas).

The Montreal Homelearners group has created an account with Scholastic Books - a great place to get discounted books.  Thank you to Melissa who is administering it for us : )

We will be placing an order around the middle of every month.  To place your order, have a look through the pdf flyers at Scholastic.ca, or the hard copies which will be available next week at Centre Communidée.