Classical Conversations of Joppa
Weekly Newsletter - January 4, 2016
Community Announcements
Welcome Back
Recess
With the weather getting colder and more indoor play needed, there will now be a recess sign up. Jen Tappan has created a signup and emailed all families. Thank you Jen and all parents who are able to help make a safe and fun indoor recess time.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4ea8a92caaf94-ccjoppa
Nursery
If you have a child in nursery, please pay Lauren Neiswinger $55 in cash (preferred) on Tuesday, January 12th. This will cover the nursery expenses through the end of the school year.
Week 13 Preview
Family Presentation: Stratton
Clean Up Families: Speicher, Stratton, Tate
(Responsible for kitchen and main area, returning chairs/tables before leaving for the day.)
Great Artists: The next 6 weeks will be great artists. We will be working with different mediums - water colors, plasters, oil pastels, tempera paint. Please dress your children appropriately or bring in a smock to use during art time.
Foundations Presentation Topic: Share one of your favorite things. What is it? Where/when did you get it? Why do you like it? Who gave it to you or who do you play with?
Upcoming Events
Essentials Families ONLY - Cheeseball with Pudewa
Friday, January 8 - 6:00-9:00pm at Laura Ramsey's House
Field Trip: Turkey Hill Experience
Wednesday, March 16
Registration will open on Turkey Hill website shortly and each family can register themselves for their preferred time slot. http://www.turkeyhillexperience.com/events/events.aspx
Homeschool Conference: Moms Day Out at New Covenant Presbyterian, Abingdon
Saturday, March 19
More information to come soon.
Field Trip: BSO "Peter and the Wolf"
Thursday, March 24 - 10:00-11:00am at BSO, Baltimore
Registration is CLOSED
Memory Master Testing (optional)
If your student is testing for memory master,
Two adult proofs must be completed by Tuesday, April 5th (Week 23)
Tutor proofs will be the week of April 5th-12th.
Director proofs will be completed by April 12th (Week 24)
If you have any questions about Memory Master, please let me know. Please work with your student and confirm with their tutor by Week 20 if they plan on testing.
Registration for 2016-2017
NOTE: All children 4 years or older on June 1, 2016 need to be registered in Foundations in order to be on campus. Only children under the age of 4 are eligible to be a lap child or in the nursery. Please see me with any questions.
Open Houses and Information Meetings
Information Meetings
Jan 26th at 3:00pm at Trinity Church (Laura Ramsey/Kara Yoder)
Feb 8th at 10:00am at Abingdon Library (Laura Ramsey/Nicole Venters)
Mar 5th at 9:00am at Panera Bread in Festival (Laura Ramsey/Chasity Longworth)
Apr 13th at 6:45pm at Bel Air Library (Laura Ramsey/Renee Stratton)
Open Houses
Feb 16th at 9:10a-3:00pm at Trinity Church (Week 16)
Mar 22 at 9:10a-3:00pm at Trinity Church (Week 22)
MEMORY WORK EXTRAS AND RESOURCES
Memory Work Extras
CC Timeline Handmotions Video: (All Tutors are using the CC official videos OR the previously used rafikipaka from CC Connected. These two options are slightly different, but many of us have learned the rafikipaka handmotions in the past before CC officially came out with their own handmotion video.)
https://www.classicalconversations.com/foundations-learning-center/timeline-videos
A PDF printout of handmotions can be found on CC Connected user name rafikipaka.
Cycle 1 Memory Work Audio:
https://www.classicalconversations.com/foundations-learning-center/cycle-1-memory-work-audio
Cycle 1 Memory Work Tutorials:
https://tutorials.classicalconversations.com/onlinetutorials/cycle1/foundation.php
Reading Correlations from Half a Hundred Acre Wood:
https://halfahundredacrewood.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/hhaw-cycle-1-reading-correlation2.pdf