Aleah and Tyler Chittum gave presentations on the North and South Poles.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Kingsport Sculpture Walk
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We met in Kingsport to take a walking tour of the sculptures. These are a few of the pieces of art. It was fun and ended with doughnuts at the old Krispy Cream factory. 
Friday, August 20, 2010
2010 - 2011 plans...
We met this past Thursday and the group brain stormed the activities for State of Franklin Homeschool group for 2010-2011 year. We have some great plans and hope for a wonderful year of getting together for friendship and learning. Here is what is in store folks!
September 2 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver - meet in gym and play ground to talk and be goofy, bring a lunch if you wish for picnic in the park
September 16 Thursday - COOKING DAY - we have the kitchen reserved and we are going to make personal pizzas! more details to come...
October 7 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
October 21 Thursday - GEOGRAPHY DAY with POTLUCK - families can research an area of the world they are interested in and give a presentation about it, bring a food item from that area and we will get to have a "taste of the world" party after presentations.
November 4 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
November 18 Thursday - ANIMAL DAY - come share facts, triva, photos, drawings or whatever you wish to use to tell us about an animal you are interested in. The animal can be anyone from your family's pet to an animal you would love to study.
December 2 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
December 16 Thursday - MAKE IT Day - come construct cool stuff - we will have loads of construction sites in the community room. The goal will be to have "make it" activities for kids who like arts/crafts, legos, duplo, simple machines, etc...Families, be thinking about what project or supplies you can bring for sharing with the kids to help give the kids lots of options. We'll share details as we get closer to the date. Bring in cookies to share, no fruit cake! Ha, ha....
January 6 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
January 20 Thursday - DRAMA DAY with focus on PUPPETRY - our own Barb Jeffress will be leading us in a drama workshop. Bring your puppets and lets get dramatic!
February 3 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
February 17 Thursday - SHARE YOUR INTEREST/SKILL/TALENT Day - okay folks, this one was hard to know how to name, but it is a mish-mosh kind of mix of lots of great ideas and not enough meeting times to get it all in. This day will be for folks to come and give a presentation on anything they are interested in, have a talent they want to share, or to describe a career they are interested in pursuing. This could be sharing a special interest in dance and encouraging others to get up and give it a try, sharing your musical talent, doing crazy hand stands, showing photos or art made by yourself, telling us about a topic or creation you have made or want to make. Get creative and share something that inspires you!
March 3 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
March 17 Thursday - BOOK/AUTHOR DAY - come share with us a book or author you love, bring in the book if you can and tell us what is important about this book/author, consider reading an excerpt that is particularly important to you. Birthday cake will be served in honor of Dr. Suess' March Birthday!
April 7 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
April 21 Thursday - SCIENCE DAY - bring a project that your family has done at home or bring in a project that can be done by kids at the center, talk about what you discovered and show your results. Doug Chaffin will provide us with a cool science demonstration.
May 5 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
May 19 Thursday - GAME DAY - bring a few of your families favorite games and/or hand held video games for a fun day of gaming with friends. Bring a snack to share and we will munch and play together.
*Keep checking with the yahoo group for updates to these plans. If the weather is snowing or roads iced over we try to do the plan that was cancelled on the next Hang Out Day meeting time.
*Check the yahoo group for park days throughout the year that are going to occur on last Friday of the month!
September 2 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver - meet in gym and play ground to talk and be goofy, bring a lunch if you wish for picnic in the park
September 16 Thursday - COOKING DAY - we have the kitchen reserved and we are going to make personal pizzas! more details to come...
October 7 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
October 21 Thursday - GEOGRAPHY DAY with POTLUCK - families can research an area of the world they are interested in and give a presentation about it, bring a food item from that area and we will get to have a "taste of the world" party after presentations.
November 4 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
November 18 Thursday - ANIMAL DAY - come share facts, triva, photos, drawings or whatever you wish to use to tell us about an animal you are interested in. The animal can be anyone from your family's pet to an animal you would love to study.
December 2 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
December 16 Thursday - MAKE IT Day - come construct cool stuff - we will have loads of construction sites in the community room. The goal will be to have "make it" activities for kids who like arts/crafts, legos, duplo, simple machines, etc...Families, be thinking about what project or supplies you can bring for sharing with the kids to help give the kids lots of options. We'll share details as we get closer to the date. Bring in cookies to share, no fruit cake! Ha, ha....
January 6 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
January 20 Thursday - DRAMA DAY with focus on PUPPETRY - our own Barb Jeffress will be leading us in a drama workshop. Bring your puppets and lets get dramatic!
February 3 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
February 17 Thursday - SHARE YOUR INTEREST/SKILL/TALENT Day - okay folks, this one was hard to know how to name, but it is a mish-mosh kind of mix of lots of great ideas and not enough meeting times to get it all in. This day will be for folks to come and give a presentation on anything they are interested in, have a talent they want to share, or to describe a career they are interested in pursuing. This could be sharing a special interest in dance and encouraging others to get up and give it a try, sharing your musical talent, doing crazy hand stands, showing photos or art made by yourself, telling us about a topic or creation you have made or want to make. Get creative and share something that inspires you!
March 3 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
March 17 Thursday - BOOK/AUTHOR DAY - come share with us a book or author you love, bring in the book if you can and tell us what is important about this book/author, consider reading an excerpt that is particularly important to you. Birthday cake will be served in honor of Dr. Suess' March Birthday!
April 7 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
April 21 Thursday - SCIENCE DAY - bring a project that your family has done at home or bring in a project that can be done by kids at the center, talk about what you discovered and show your results. Doug Chaffin will provide us with a cool science demonstration.
May 5 Thursday - HANG OUT DAY at Carver
May 19 Thursday - GAME DAY - bring a few of your families favorite games and/or hand held video games for a fun day of gaming with friends. Bring a snack to share and we will munch and play together.
*Keep checking with the yahoo group for updates to these plans. If the weather is snowing or roads iced over we try to do the plan that was cancelled on the next Hang Out Day meeting time.
*Check the yahoo group for park days throughout the year that are going to occur on last Friday of the month!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
January's Science Day....
was science ... is history; then and in the making...
Some people like to add on to group comments by taking the title of a post and adding "was" before the original title and then adding their new, but connected topic to the title. This is how I feel about our last meeting. It WAS about science, but coming away from it I realize it IS, for our family, about so much more. Devorah let us peruse her old books and we took Caddie Woodlawn. I began reading it out loud on the day Obama was inaugurated. We had watched the ceremony and I noticed and pointed out that Michele Obama was holding the same bible Lincoln had used during his inauguration ceremony. As we read Caddie Woodlawn, both kids were really interested in her story, which is based on the author's grandmother's life and is set during Lincoln's term, Lee's surrender, the abolition of slavery and ultimately Lincoln's death. What a powerful book to read at this time in our nation's history. What a way to help the kids realize the importance of Obama's election and what it means for us as a society that has come so far in such a relatively short time.
Life is full of WAS this and is NOW THAT connections for us and I am most grateful for the members of State of Franklin HS group for all the connections I catch.
Some people like to add on to group comments by taking the title of a post and adding "was" before the original title and then adding their new, but connected topic to the title. This is how I feel about our last meeting. It WAS about science, but coming away from it I realize it IS, for our family, about so much more. Devorah let us peruse her old books and we took Caddie Woodlawn. I began reading it out loud on the day Obama was inaugurated. We had watched the ceremony and I noticed and pointed out that Michele Obama was holding the same bible Lincoln had used during his inauguration ceremony. As we read Caddie Woodlawn, both kids were really interested in her story, which is based on the author's grandmother's life and is set during Lincoln's term, Lee's surrender, the abolition of slavery and ultimately Lincoln's death. What a powerful book to read at this time in our nation's history. What a way to help the kids realize the importance of Obama's election and what it means for us as a society that has come so far in such a relatively short time.
Life is full of WAS this and is NOW THAT connections for us and I am most grateful for the members of State of Franklin HS group for all the connections I catch.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
owl pellet day
on august 21st, we had our first activity day at carver rec. jessica c. had organized an owl pellet dissection for the group which was a big hit!! the kids had a great time using the tiny tweezers to pull the hair away from the bones. there were even charts to help you figure out what animal your owl pellet used to be. it was fascinating to watch all these little heads bent over their work. they were so diligent, so patient.
it was also a planning day. we went outside to discuss the rest of the year's activities while the kids played on the playground (and inside...and all over the place). we sketched out a rough idea of what each month would look like and then called it a day.
i'll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking...
it was also a planning day. we went outside to discuss the rest of the year's activities while the kids played on the playground (and inside...and all over the place). we sketched out a rough idea of what each month would look like and then called it a day.
i'll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
riverview splashpad
on august 25th, we met up at the riverview splashpad in kingsport. although rain threatened to ruin the fun, we decided to go for it anyway. and i'm glad we did, more people showed up than i had expected and we were rewarded with relatively nice weather...only one quick shower but we had shelter. the place is really nice, lots of fun gizmos for the kids to play with and spray with and splash in...and color all over the place on the equipment as well as an amazing mural!! there's a playground there as well and the kids went back and forth between there and the water. us women folk played a quick game of "give me your cell number" that probably looked from a distance like a bunch of teen girls texting, talking and laughing. we played a rousing game that kass brought called "apples to apples" which we had played before with our friends in charleston but had forgotten about. there was a lot of running and playing so there were a few bumped heads, teeth, lips and feet, but for the most part we all had fun. lily even taught julia how to pump her legs to swing herself, how cool is that?!
i was told by herb at carver that they might be getting a splaspad type thing next summer. i really hope so, it's pretty fun. slideshow time...
i was told by herb at carver that they might be getting a splaspad type thing next summer. i really hope so, it's pretty fun. slideshow time...
Friday, August 22, 2008
summer in a nutshell
well, it has been quite awhile since anyone has added any posts here so i thought i'd recap the summer for everyone. the month of may was filled with outdoor park time. we had our first "picnic in the park" at warrior's path. it's an awesome newer park (most new parks often aren't very cool), i mean it has a seesaw!!! most of the real fun took place in the creek though. the kids built a dam spectacular enough to inspire the people over at TVA. then there was the barge ride up at bay's mountain courtesy of betty. we saw some really beautiful water lilies and sadie spotted a big turtle. we got to walk around the animal areas and watch the wolves, deer and bobcats (i think), and small turtles and some other animals i can't even remember now. we had yet another "picnic in the park" day at steele creek. of course there was a lot of time spent in the water again. we got to meet new people and see some old friends we hadn't seen in a long time. we ended the month with a trip to the power board for a talk on electricity. the general consensus is that while we really enjoyed and appreciated the speaker, tyler could've easily done better...and did by answering questions that he couldn't. afterwards we headed over to winged deer park for some much needed play time after sitting so still for so long. then the kids talked us into going to marble slab for ice cream. we spent enough time there to get a good burn on parts not protected by the outdoor umbrellas. it was a long delicious day.
june started with a mild pop as we thought that the idea of a free movie at winged deer park would be fun. it wasn't. well, except for the blanket time we spent with ren and kass. and the kids did have fun playing on the playground. we left before it was all over, it was crowded and we couldn't even hear the movie. but we did find our way back to the exact same spot for a "picnic in the park" day later in the month. and as usual, the kids gravitated towards the water where they spent most of the day. the friday before we had an impromptu get together for "music on the square" in jonesborough which included a homeschooling dad all the way from columbia, sc.
july was filled with lots of get togethers that weren't all necessarily sofh gatherings but most everyone involved was from the sofh family. we had a potluck at our house to celebrate scotty's birthday, celebrated nesta's birthday at the nolichuckey river, had another "picnic at the park" at warrior's path and again at boone dam swimming area. one of the more exciting gatherings was for "learn nothing day" at rock creek. we had homeschoolers from georgia come up for that one...and a big bunch of people from sofh of course. it was an all day hang out that included food and swimming and talking and laughing and making new friends. we ended the month with an ATC create and trade gathering of the local "imagination tribe" which isn't an sofh group but as i said before includes many of us.
so far august has been just as full of fun and friendship. several of us got together for the downtown first friday and had a blast! the following week, we had our first "not back to school picnic" at steele creek park to jump start the "school year" as well as filling up the acoustic coffeehouse with sofhers for a concert by our very own heather. finally, we went to a little out of the way place called clarke's creek the other day for some crawdad and millipede catching and a picnic on the water and then yesterday we had our first activity day of the year where we dissected owl pellets, so awesomely organized by jess c., which ended in our annual planning meeting while the kids played in the gym and on the playground and had lots of yummy snacks together. we'll get together again on monday at the riverview splash pad for another "picnic in the park" day which we're really looking forward to as it's our first time going there.
well, that's our sofh summer in a nutshell. hope you enjoyed it! we did!!
now for the slideshow:
june started with a mild pop as we thought that the idea of a free movie at winged deer park would be fun. it wasn't. well, except for the blanket time we spent with ren and kass. and the kids did have fun playing on the playground. we left before it was all over, it was crowded and we couldn't even hear the movie. but we did find our way back to the exact same spot for a "picnic in the park" day later in the month. and as usual, the kids gravitated towards the water where they spent most of the day. the friday before we had an impromptu get together for "music on the square" in jonesborough which included a homeschooling dad all the way from columbia, sc.
july was filled with lots of get togethers that weren't all necessarily sofh gatherings but most everyone involved was from the sofh family. we had a potluck at our house to celebrate scotty's birthday, celebrated nesta's birthday at the nolichuckey river, had another "picnic at the park" at warrior's path and again at boone dam swimming area. one of the more exciting gatherings was for "learn nothing day" at rock creek. we had homeschoolers from georgia come up for that one...and a big bunch of people from sofh of course. it was an all day hang out that included food and swimming and talking and laughing and making new friends. we ended the month with an ATC create and trade gathering of the local "imagination tribe" which isn't an sofh group but as i said before includes many of us.
so far august has been just as full of fun and friendship. several of us got together for the downtown first friday and had a blast! the following week, we had our first "not back to school picnic" at steele creek park to jump start the "school year" as well as filling up the acoustic coffeehouse with sofhers for a concert by our very own heather. finally, we went to a little out of the way place called clarke's creek the other day for some crawdad and millipede catching and a picnic on the water and then yesterday we had our first activity day of the year where we dissected owl pellets, so awesomely organized by jess c., which ended in our annual planning meeting while the kids played in the gym and on the playground and had lots of yummy snacks together. we'll get together again on monday at the riverview splash pad for another "picnic in the park" day which we're really looking forward to as it's our first time going there.
well, that's our sofh summer in a nutshell. hope you enjoyed it! we did!!
now for the slideshow:
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