Lake Placid Center for the Arts: SCHOOL OF BALLET & DANCE RECITAL

LAKE PLACID SCHOOL OF BALLET & DANCE RECITAL

Mon, June 2  | 9:30 AM | $2  | All Ages

The Lake Placid School of Ballet presents their annual spring concert highlighting some of the best in local talent.

WEIBRECHT FOR SCHOOLS ONLY SERIES  
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2014 Weibrecht For Schools Only Series. Reservations are on a first come, first serve basis and seating is limited. Call Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Reservations are required and seats are $2.00 per person.

School Reservations Are Currently Being Accepted for All Programs. Call 518.523.25132 to Book Today!

   

Lake Placid Center for the Arts: FIREBIRD!

Thurs, May 29  | 10 AM | $2  | Rec Grades 2 to 12
Inspired by the Russian folktale and popular ballet of The Firebird, watch as even the impossible is possible. When the mythical firebird comes to life, Ivan and Princess Yelena team up to break the enchantment placed over their kingdom. This 50 minute magical puppet fantasy features beautifully handcrafted marionettes, lavish costumes, vivid sets, and a large body puppet; masterly accompanied by Stravinsky's musical score from the ballet of The Firebird.

WEIBRECHT FOR SCHOOLS ONLY SERIES  
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2014 Weibrecht For Schools Only Series. Reservations are on a first come, first serve basis and seating is limited. Call Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Reservations are required and seats are $2.00 per person.

  School Reservations Are Currently Being Accepted for All Programs. Call 518.523.25132 to Book Today!

Lake Placid Center for the Arts: The Little Prince

Wed, May 21  10 AM
 $2
All Ages

The Little Prince is the story of a young boy's visit to the planet Earth. He comes upon a stranded aviator and befriends him by telling stories of his escapades on other planets, ultimately bringing out the child in him. Adapted by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella, The Little Prince is the most read and most translated French book.

WEIBRECHT FOR SCHOOLS ONLY SERIES  
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2014 Weibrecht For Schools Only Series. Reservations are on a first come, first serve basis and seating is limited. Call Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Reservations are required and seats are $2.00 per person.
School Reservations Are Currently Being Accepted for All Programs. Call 518.523.25132 to Book Today!

Lake Placid Center for the Arts: ELISA MONTE DANCE

Thurs, Mar 29  
9 AM or 11 AM $2  
All Ages

Bridging cultural barriers through the universal language of dance, the troupe is widely recognized for its highly athletic style as well as its technical and physical acuity. The company celebrates diversity through its work, artists and staff. Its dancers hail from all corners of the globe, including the Bahamas, US, Cuba, Guadalupe & South Africa.


WEIBRECHT FOR SCHOOLS ONLY SERIES  
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2014 Weibrecht For Schools Only Series. Reservations are on a first come, first serve basis and seating is limited. Call Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Reservations are required and seats are $2.00 per person.

School Reservations Are Currently Being Accepted for All Programs. Call 518.523.25132 to Book Today!

Lake Placid Center for the Arts: DINO-LIGHT

Tues, Feb 25  9:30 AM $2 Rec Grades 3 to 12
Lightwire Theater presents DiNO-Light as created by Corbian Visual Arts and Dance where electroluminescent creatures light up the darkness in a heart-rending original tale. Truly unique and visually dazzling, DiNO (formally known as Darwin) has been praised for its cutting edge blend of puppetry, technology, and dance entrancing and captivating audiences all over the world.


WEIBRECHT FOR SCHOOLS ONLY SERIES  
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2014 Weibrecht For Schools Only Series. Reservations are on a first come, first serve basis and seating is limited. Call Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Reservations are required and seats are $2.00 per person.

School Reservations Are Currently Being Accepted for All Programs. Call 518.523.25132 to Book Today!


Homeschool Swim

Event: Homeschool Swim Date:  TUESDAY, 2/25/14
Time: 12:30 - 2:30
Place:  Comfort Inn kiddie pool & water slides.  Changing rooms & lockers are available on site.   Cost: $3 per child swimming.  Non swimming siblings & parents (swimming or non swimming) are free.  Please pay at the front desk in the lobby as you enter the building.

There was sufficient interest to add a 2nd day of homeschool swim during the 4th week of each month! This upcoming week swim will be on Tuesday, hopefully this will allow families who could not make the Thursday swim on the 2nd week of the month a chance to participate.    Please contact Lisa Bergmann at  Ljddragon@juno.com  with any questions.

BIOLOGY DISSECTION CLASS AT CO-OP -- GRADE 5+

BIOLOGY DISSECTION CLASS AT CO-OP -- GRADE 5+ -- 3/19, 4/16, 4/30 & 5/7

Co-op will be offering a biology dissection lab for students in grade 5 & up. Students will have the chance to dissect 4 specimens (1 per class period) -- earthworm, frog, crayfish, yellow perch. Classes will focus on students learning about the various body systems through the dissection & observation process. This class is not intended to be a full biology course, and families are encouraged to provide additional, in depth, instruction at home on each specimen to be dissected.

Class size will be limited to 8 students. Classes will be meeting during the 11a-12p class period so, if needed, they can run over into the afternoon a bit. Up to 2 students may share a specimen kit, taking turns working on the specimens (this is to help reduce the class cost for families with multiple older students).

Fee: $50 to purchase the dissection kit. These are the kits we will be purchasing: http://www.sonlight.com/250-30.html . Because I (Holly) receive a 10% discount & free shipping from Sonlight the kits will only be $50. Money needs to be into Holly by March 5th, so kits have time to arrive prior to the 3/19 class. Payments can be made through Paypal to janerose13@gmail.com or email hollyjwarren@gmail.com to make other arrangements for payment.

Teachers: Ken Boire, (pharmacist); TJ Warren (MS Natural Sciences); Amanda Bokus (BS Biology) will all be working together to teach this course.

RSVP: If you are interested in having your student participate in this class please email Holly at hollyjwarren@gmail.com, or on Facebook at Holly Warren

Co-op For 19 Feb

Set-up for those teaching will begin at 10:30am.  Classes start at 11:00am, and conclude around 3:30p when French classes finish. Feel free to come for the whole time or just for the portion your family wants to participate in. Bring a lunch or participate in the community potluck! Full details, fees & RSVP information available for everything below.

If the weather is fair please bring winter clothing for your kids so they can play outside at the playground next door too!

Community Service Activities for February & March:

1) We will be collecting items for local animal shelters, and are working on arranging a field trip once the weather is warmer to the Elmore SPCA.  A full "wish list" for supplies the shelter needs can be found on the Elmore SPCA website at:  http://www.elmorespca.org/wishlist.html .  A box will be available at the sign-in table for donations to be dropped off at.  Please note that at this time the SPCA does NOT need donations of blankets or pet bedding.

2) Tables will be set up to make Valentine's cards in February & St Patrick's Day cards in March for local shut-ins and nursing home residents.


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Free Play Room:  Waterbead play
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All day long…...

Valentine's Day Crafts & (optional) Card Exchange
**  The Valentine’s Day Crafts will be set-up in the basement classrooms throughout the whole day for students to work on as time allows. **

Activities will include making Butterfly Pencil Valentines, Painted Heart Doily Buntings, Beaded Valentine's Mobiles, T-Shirt Necklaces, & Tissue Paper Heart Suncatchers, making Valentine's cards for local nursing home residents.

Samples of these projects (and the snow projects from this last week) can be seen on the co-op's Pinterest board at: http://www.pinterest.com/bradleypond/homeschooling-co-op-ideas/

Students who choose will also be able to exchange Valentine's with their friends.  There will be a separate table set up for the card exchange. Students will be able to decorate a paper bag & label it with their name during class. At the end of class, students participating in the Valentine exchange will have the chance to put their Valentine's in each other's bags.  Valentine's cards do NOT have to be handmade!  Store bought ones are just fine.  $1 Store near Price Chopper had a good selection.  Students should come with about 25 Valentine's to share (based off our average attendance).  We recommend that most of them just be signed by the student, but not addressed to anyone in particular.  This makes handing them out much easier!

Teacher: Holly Warren
Fee: $2 per child, or a maximum of $5 per family.
RSVP: Holly Warren, hollyjwarren@gmail.com or Facebook Holly Warren

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11:00a - 12:00p


Preschool Class --
A Day With Dr Suess

We will read a favorite Dr. Suess book and do a craft relating to the author's books.
I will have a matching game and sensory tub with ABC's.
For anyone that has any Dr Suess Books, please bring them, particularly "The Fox In Sock" and "The Foot Book".

Fee: $1 per child
RSVP: Lynn Bushey, busheylm@gmail.com or Lynn Bushey on Facebook


Elementary --
Folktale Storyteller
This class will primarily be for elementary age kids (4’ish - 10’ish).   Older & younger kids are welcome to participate though!
            A retired elementary teacher and librarian, Mary Jo TenEyck grew up listening to personal and family stories from her father.  That experience, combined with an early love of reading folk and fairy tales led to her passion for storytelling.  She was fortunate to study under several master storytellers in the early nineteen eighties, and has enjoyed sharing stories both professionally and personally in her teaching career, and also in libraries and for community groups.

           Mary Jo plans to share three folktales with the Plattsburgh Home-school Community and to involve her listeners in a few related activities if time allows.  The stories come from Japan, the American Appalachian Mountain region, and Russia.  Folktales typically feature repetition, opposites, strong characters and plot, and usually point towards a message or value that a culture holds.  Often, the hero or heroine sets out to put right something that is out of balance either in the individual life or in the community.   Similar themes and types are found all over the world.  With universal themes, they are particularly fun to tell, and serve as wonderful models for story creation.
(Many thanks to Lizzie Girard for helping set this up!  Mary Jo is Lizzie’s mom & we are super excited to welcome her to co-op this week.)
Teacher: Mary Jo TenEyck
Fee: FREE
RSVP:  Holly Warren, hollyjwarren@gmail.com or Holly Warren on Facebook

Upper Elementary/Middle School --
Board games for older kids (ages 9+) will be set up in the board room for the morning session.   Bring your favorite game to share!

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12:00p - 1:00p

Potluck or bag lunch period.  If your family has special dietary needs (vegan, gluten free, etc), please consider bringing a dish to share that you family can also eat!   Everyone, even families who choose to bring their own lunches, are encouraged to join in the community lunch time up in the Fellowship Hall.

If you’d like to participate in a potluck lunch please email Cathy Morin at woodchop2011@hotmail.com or on Facebook at Cathy Morin.

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12:45p - 1:00p

Children’s Chorus --

This class is open to all the children.  The only requirements are they must be able to participate without distracting the other kids!   We will continue practicing a number of songs to be sung at Meadowbrook, and possibly another local nursing home (suggestions, anyone?), sometime in April or May. This class will meet upstairs in the sanctuary.

Fee: $2.00.  This is a one time fee to cover folders & print music for the children to use at practice, home & when we sing in public.  If you paid this fee at last week's class please do NOT pay it again!  We will take a few moments at the start of chorus to label each student's folder.

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1:00p - 2:30p

Upper Elementary/Middle School --

Ground Water & Drinking Water Quality

Chris Lafountain, Lab Director at Endyne in Plattsburgh, will be giving a presentation to the upper elementary & older kids on drinking water quality.  She will have a Power Point presentation to illustrate a number of different tests that Endyne does on local drinking water, and why each one is important.  She will also have hands-on displays that show what different water problems look like, as well as how their most common test -- Total coliform/e.coli. -- works.
Teacher: Chris Lafountain
Fee: FREE
RSVP: Holly Warren, hollyjwarren@gmail.com or Holly Warren on Facebook


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1:00p - 3:30p
Board Games --

Board games for the preschool & elementary age children will be set up in the preschool room downstairs. There will also be building blocks, basic art supplies, and other items to help keep our youngest co-op members entertained throughout the afternoon.

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2:00p - 3:30p
French classes will continue for the winter/spring semester, taught by Carole Dubois. It is not to late to sign-up, so please email Carole or come to co-op this week if you are interested. There will be two 45 min classes offered classes offered. One from 2:00 - 2:45 for younger kids (ages 5-8), and one from 2:45-3:30 for older kids (ages 9+). All classes will be offered at the beginner level, but  two classes will allow Carole to offer more advanced projects for the older kids and keep a good student/teacher ratio.


The rate is $10 per lessons. She is willing to do a multiple child rate of 50% for second child. (If there's more in your family you can discuss with her.)


You can also contact her directly with other questions at her email: Duboiscarole8@aol.com

Homeschool Swim-2nd Thursday of the Month

Event: Homeschool Swim
Date:  THURSDAY, 2/13/14
Time: 12:30 - 2:30
Place:  Comfort Inn kiddie pool & water slides.  Changing rooms & lockers are available on site.
Cost: $3 per child swimming.  Non swimming siblings & parents (swimming or non swimming) are free.

Due to lifeguard availability, this session homeschool swim will be on the 2nd THURSDAY of each month.  If you would be interested in attending another monthly swim date on the 4th TUESDAY of each month, please contact Lisa Bergmann at  Ljddragon@juno.com 

NATIONAL MATH COMPETITION

Are you 14 or under? Do You like Math? Do you like games? Do you like to compete?

A national Under 14 math competition will be held in Orlando, Florida on Friday, March 28th, 2014. The winner will receive $10,000. This competition is called National Number Knockout (N2K) because we want to knock out innumeracy by improving calculating speed and accuracy. At the moment, N2K is accepting scouting videos of students playing the game. Videos are due by  February 20, 2014. After we review the videos, we will choose the 32 best and brightest students to compete for the grand prize.

All expenses to Orlando will be paid—covered for the 32 finalists and one parent each!

Learn about the contest!
1) How to play the game: http://nationalnumberknockout.com/how-to-play/
2) About the N2K: http://nationalnumberknockout.com/

Register for FREE, receive the PDF rulebook, and upload the scouting video of your student. 
Register: http://nationalnumberknockout.com/registration/
Video upload: http://nationalnumberknockout.com/video-upload/

Thank you,

Leigh Bortins
Co-Founder, National Number Knockout
Founder, Classical Conversations