Wednesday Schedule
Check-In Chat
Time: 10:00–11:00
Host: Leanne Markle (SHG)
Target Audience: Homeschooling and would-be homeschooling parents
Description: Kick-off session for regular SHG Check-In Chats. Check-in Chats happen every other Wednesday at 10 am via Zoom! Join other homeschoolers in the community to talk about homeschooling, kids, activities, health, books, more homeschooling! Whatever is on folk’s minds! It’s a way to stay connected! Whether you’re new to homeschooling or have been at it for years, we’d love to see you! Check the SHG Online Forum for details!
Fencing
Time: 11:00–12:00
Host: Dawn Spiegelberg (Salle du Lion Rouge)
Target Audience: All ages
Description: Join us for the basics of fencing!
The art of defence is simple enough to learn in an afternoon while complex enough to study for a lifetime.
This is a movement class. Dress in comfortable clothing and make sure you have space to move around.
Minecraft
No zoom link — requires advanced registration
Time: 12:00–1:00
Host: Jessica Lang (MoPOP Homeschool Days)
Before the Event: Registration required (limited to 18 students). Submit one Registration Form for each student. The form should stop accepting responses once the limit is reached.
Description: Join MoPOP for a Minecraft: Education Edition build challenge! Working together, we'll imagine and build a new community inspired by fantasy characters and places. Will our library be run by the Wicked Witch or by Black Panther? Should we build the dragon's flower shop or the Sugar Plum Fairy's garden? Use your own creativity as you construct a fantasy-inspired community!
Homeschooling High School
Time: 1:00–2:00
Host: Linda Love Gorordo (Love HS to College) brings real-world knowledge and experience into the educational consulting field. When her children were younger, she wrote a successful $500,000 grant for their elementary school, and was hired as a consultant for a magnet program at the school they attended after moving to Washington state. When her children were 5th, 4th and 1st grades, they began homeschooling. Over the subsequent years, she has gained expertise on various forms of school choice, alternative schooling, hybrid schooling, dual enrollment and how all of those things, along with homeschooling can be combined for a successful high school education and college application. Her older children, now 24 and 22 have graduated from prestigious universities, while her youngest, at 20, is finishing his sophomore year at Carleton College in Minnesota. All have followed a non-traditional educational path to university acceptance.
For the past 5 years, Linda has supported all types of families in Western Washington as they explore and choose both traditional and non-traditional paths for high school and college.
Target Audience: Homeschooling and would-be homeschooling parents
Description: Longtime SHG friend and educational consultant Linda Love Gorordo will share her knowledge and answer your questions about homeschooling at the high school level. If you want a little background preview, check out these videos Linda recorded for WHO: How to Homeschool High School and The Mystery of College in High School.
For more on homeschooling high school, plus preparing transcripts and documents, and applying for college and financial aid, see Linda’s schedule of Zoom workshops this fall.
Carnivorous Plants
Time: 2:00–3:00
Host: Sara Cammeresi (SHG, Master Gardener) is a gardener and amateur naturalist who loves getting close to the ground and studying all the plants, animals, birds, insects, fungus, slime, lichens, rocks, and more. Before the pandemic she taught gardening classes for homeschoolers at the Bothell Children’s Garden and for the last several years she has been growing and learning about carnivorous plants.
Target Audience: All ages
Description: Join Sara for this reprise of last year’s introduction to the wild world of plants that eat animals. Learn where these plants grow naturally, how they attract and digest their prey, and how they evolved to do this. Then take a quick tour of Sara’s collection.
Art Appreciation
Time: 3:00–4:00
Host: Luc Travers (Touching the Art, Literature at Our House), is the creator of LiteratureAtOurHouse and author of the book Touching The Art: A Guide to Enjoying Art at a Museum. He is currently working on a second book Stories in Paint: 50 Powerful Artworks from Museums across the US. Mr. Travers lives in Wilmington, North Carolina where he helped coordinate the docent program at the Cameron Art Museum. In addition to teaching Art Appreciation and Literature on line, Mr. Travers has led art museum tours for both adults and children in over thirty museums around the world (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Center, the Louvre, and the Vatican museums). He graduated from the University of Memphis with a degree in Art History, and speaks fluent French.
Target Audience: Ages 7–12
Description: Join Mr. Travers for a unique and innovative art appreciation class where we learn to "read" an artwork and personally connect to the meaning of the story.
Students who want more are invited to check out Mr. Travers’ fall classes: Elementary Art Appreciation and Junior High Art Appreciation, as well as the full range of Literature At Our House classes.
If I Were a Bird
Time: 4:00–5:00
Host: Kyra Ballas (Heartwood Nature Programs) grew up in the Pacific Northwest where rainy skies, towering forests, and muddy trails sparked her curiosity and appreciation for the natural world. She has her degree from Western Washington University in Environmental Studies, where she discovered a love for teaching and connecting people to nature. She was a park and outreach technician for Whatcom County Parks and Recreation, and an outdoor science instructor at Oregon Museum of Science in the John Day Fossil Beds, where she led wilderness field studies for K-12 students, as well as a naturalist/educator for Klamath Outdoor Science School where she taught rural, indigenous, and latinx students about the unique ecology and cultural history of the Klamath Basin. She is currently Heartwood’s Program Coordinator and Educator for the Salmonberries, Huckleberries, and Blackberries classes.
Target Audience: Ages 5–11
Materials: natural materials (i.e.: sticks, branches, mud, leaves, etc.) and/or humanmade materials (shredded paper, pipe cleaners, ribbons, etc.) whatever they would they like to make a nest out of!
Description: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly, or what all the birds in your neighborhood are up to? Join us as we explore the wonderful world of birds and build your very own nest!