Friday Schedule
Artist Trading Cards
Time: 10:00–11:00
Host: Tracy Banaszynski (SHG, Loyal Heights Homeschool)
Target Audience: All ages
Materials:
Required
watercolor or other sturdy white paper cut into 2.5” x 3.5" rectangles.
Plus, any of the following
markers (water resistant if using water colors and you don't want the marker lines to bleed)
gel pens
watercolor paint
crayons
washi tape and/or stickers
collage elements and glue
other decorative elements
Description: Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are small works of art that can be created, collected, and traded. The possibilities for decorating them are endless. The only rule is they have to be 2.5 x 3.5". If you would like to trade artist cards with other participants in the workshop, please send your name and address to tlbanaszynski@yahoo.com so I can coordinate a mailing list!
Testing and Assessment Q&A
Time: 11:00–12:00
Host: Beth Rosenzweig homeschooled her youngest 2 children in the early ‘80s from birth to college entrance—they are now grown with children of their own. She has a current Washington State Teaching Certificate and graduate degree in Education (Special Education emphasis). She started providing academic assessments and standardized testing in 1985 and continues to provide annual academic assessments. She has taught homeschool Parent Qualification classes for several colleges since 1993 and is currently teaching for Edmonds College and Skagit Valley College.
Target Audience: Homeschooling and would-be homeschooling parents
Description: Longtime SHG friend and educational consultant Beth Rosenzweig is here to answer your questions about homeschool testing and assessment for ages 8–18! Bring your questions! (Beth’s Annual Assessment Q&A)
Travel with Kids
Time: 12:00–1:00
Host: Kipper Jewsbury (SHG, Kids & Passports), her husband Andrew, and their children Falcon (11) and Batty (9) are an international family hailing from Australia, Denmark, and USA. Together they have visited 37 countries and every continent except Antarctica.
“We were travelers before children and didn’t stop when they came along. We travel for fun, for family time, to experience diverse cultures, and to worldschool our whole family.”
Target Audience: Homeschooling and would-be homeschooling parents
Description: Kipper and her family have traveled all over the world and when COVID hit and travel came to a grinding halt, they found new ways to travel… virtually! If you’re interested in broadening your kid’s cultural awareness through real and virtual travel, Kipper’s got ideas for you!
Why Don’t Dogs Lay Eggs?
Time: 1:00–2:00
Host: Brandon Hendrickson (Science is Weird) helps kids fall in love with the world.
He’s a homeschooling dad who works with homeschooling families — and got his start teaching SHG teens!
He currently runs “Science is WEIRD”, an outfit that seeks to help kids (and especially 2e kids) fall in love with the sciences, but he’s also been an classroom teacher and curriculum architect at a startup Montessori-inspired school in Bellevue. Before that, he and his wife ran a homeschooling enrichment program in Kirkland that taught elementary kids history, philosophy, and cooking.
In all this, he’s worked with the knowledge that the world is fascinating, and that kids are more clever than is commonly assumed.
He has bachelor’s degrees in world religions and history, and a master’s in educational theory from the University of Washington.
Target Audience: Kids, ages 8–13
Materials:
an egg to dissect
a clear cup/bowl to crack it in
some paper to draw on
your voracious curiosity
Description: Eggs seem straightforward — but when you think about it, they hardly make any sense.
• If eggs are so helpful, why don’t mammals lay them?
• What is the “yolk”, anyway — is it a baby chick?
• And why are they so delicious?
Explore embryology, evolutionary biology, and ooey-gooey eggs in this hour-long session!
Explore the World & Work, Study, Play at Child Wonder the World
Time: 2:00–2:30
Host: Giselle Fuerte (SHG, Child Wonder the World) is an AfroLatin immigrant from Panama who lives in the United States with her young, homeschooled children. She holds a graduate degree in education from the University of Southern California.
Target Audience: Parents with children 0-8 years old
Description: Enjoy a virtual tour of our new globally inspired indoor playground in Burien. You’re invited to work, study, and play in a space where children of color can build self-esteem and a sense of belonging by seeing reflections of themselves and their cultural heritage in their play environment, and where diverse toys and books also provide “windows” through which all children learn acceptance and empathy towards people who don’t look or act like them. Tables, headphones, and WiFi for work and study. Play space, snacks, and drinks for recharging and taking breaks. COVID-safe for your well-being. (pdf flyer)
SHG Park Day Meet’n’Greet
Time: 2:30–3:00
Hosts: Allison Rozell Tatum (SHG Steering Committee & South End Park Day)
Alan Bond (SHG Tuesday Park Day) & Susan Milton (SHG Steering Committee & Park Day regular)
plus homeschooling parents interested in starting/reviving North End and Eastside Park Days
Target Audience: All Seattle-area homeschoolers and would-be homeschoolers
Description: Come meet your SHG Park Day organizers. Find out what goes on at Park Day and how you can get involved. Not a Park Day in your area? Get some advice about how to start one!
Loving + Effective Homeschooling for Foster and Adoptive Parents: Let’s talk about Connection and Community
Time: 3:00–4:00
Host: Sara Cole (SHG, Parent Coach)
Target Audience: Parents of adopted and/or foster children who are homeschooling or considering homeschooling.
Description: Bring your questions, concerns, passions, and longing for connection with others who “get it.”
NOTE: Please have headphones. If possible, it would be great to be separate from your children so you can speak freely about your experience without concern for young ears and hearts.
Wrap Up Chat
Time: 4:00–5:00
Host: Sara Cammeresi (SHG Events Chair)
Target Audience: All Seattle-area homeschoolers and would-be homeschoolers
Description: Final social chat to wrap up our Not Back to School Week. Would love to hear about your favorite and not-so-favorite parts of NBTS.