Pocomcrady Education Activities and the Crux Climbing on Fridays

The Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center has added on a morning activity on each day that we are meeting at The Crux. Each family should feel free to participate as often as they wish. You can do one afternoon, or one morning, or one full day or you can do every single opportunity or combination. There is no requirement. There is no minimum to how much your family attends. Please just come if and when you are able. Also note that there is an $8 fee, per person for each morning session and a $7 fee per climber for the afternoon sessions. **

https://www.pokomac.com/outdoor-education-center/


Outdoor Education Center morning activities will begin promptly at 10:00am with doors opening at 9:30am. Morning programming runs until noon. Lunch will run from noon to 1:00pm. Lunch is provided. They will take a headcount in the morning and their chef will prepare something for the group. Cost for the morning session and lunch is $8 per person.


November 1- Homestead ( we have an 1812 homestead where we would make candles and bake either in a hearth or beehive oven like they did in the 1800s)
November 15- Winter Ecology
December 6- Winter Survival
December 20- Snowshoeing ( snowshoes provided)
January 3- Tubing ( we have a rope tow tubing hill on site)
January 10- Cross Country Skiing ( equipment provided)
January 24- Ice Fishing

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Homeschool Indoor Rock Climbing @ The Crux:

WHEN:

Nov 1st and 15th
Dec 6th and 20th
January 3rd, 10th and 24th

Each session will be from 1-3pm

COST: $7 per child, per climbing session (Includes climbing and equipment)

https://www.pokomac.com/crux-rock-climbing/

North Country Homeschooling trips to Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center and The Crux

Information for anyone attending the Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Days....

We here at Pok-O-MaCready Outdoor Education Center and The Crux Climbing Center are excited to start working with North Country Homeschooling starting this Friday November 1st!

Here are a couple things to note so that your all's arrival and time here can be set up for success: 

1. Attached is Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center's "Health and Parental Permission" form. If these could be completed, for all participating students before their arrival here, that would be awesome - if not we'll have the forms printed out and families will be able to complete them upon their arrival here. 

2. Parents and Guardians of students may eat the lunch provided free of charge. Optional $3 donation. 

3. Directions to Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center: 

Address: 1391 Reber Road Willsboro, NY 12996

From 87, The Adirondack Northway take Exit 33 for Willsboro, Lewis and Keesville: NY 22, US 9

Continue on NY 22 for about 5 miles. 

Turn Right onto Reber Road, here there will be signs for Pok-O-MacCready Summer Camps, Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center and The Crux Champlain Valley Climbing Center. Continue on Reber Road for one mile passing the sign for Camp PokoMoonshine and Turn Right at the Sign for Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center. There is a gravel parking area here with a gray building on the right-hand side with a wooden green "Office" sign. There will be signs directing everyone towards the large deck entrance for registration. We'll welcome, orient, complete paperwork and accept payments here from 9:30 - 10:00 AM. 

 

MIT Splash! Registration Open

Weekend program at MIT for 9-12 graders, registration now open until October 31, 2019.
https://esp.mit.edu/learn/Splash/index.html

Ski swaps and homeschool XC ski days on the horizon

Once winter comes, we will be having weekly homeschool XC Ski days at Mt Van Hoevenberg (MVH) in Lake Placid on Wednesdays from 10am-1pm. MVH hasn't made the sign up form yet on their website, but the plan is to have it cost $50/child for the season, which would include lessons and a pass to allow the child to participate in other community programs too. We're not sure if that price includes rentals yet. Parents who ski with the group should also be able to get a discounted $50 pass, though the details on that are also a bit hazy. BUT, we wanted to share this info now because a whole bunch of ski swaps are coming up in the region, in case you were in the market for equipment. Here are some of them:

NYSEF swap in Lake Placid: http://www.nysef.org/lpsc-nysef-annual-ski-sale-november-2/

Killington swap in VT: https://www.killington.com/things-to-do/events/events-calendar/ski-bike-sale?season=winter

Waterville Valley Academy in NH: https://wvbbts.org/swap/

Workshop with Puppetry Group at LPCA

Tara Palen at Lake Placid Center for the Arts says there will be a free workshop on Thurs. October 17th at 6pm with *Manual Cinema,* a puppetry group. They are going to do a workshop/demo presentation for free onstage. If you are interested, you must email Tara in advance: tara@lakeplacidarts.org.
(The next day, Oct 18, Manual Cinema is performing Frankenstein: https://www.lakeplacidarts.org/performances/manual-cinemas-frankenstein)

Adirondack Center for Writing Annouces:

High School Writing Retreat. High school students, classes, and homeschooled students are invited to join for a day of performances, workshops, and general awesomeness. Featured performance poets and workshop leaders are Roya Marsh, Jon Sands, and Arhm Choi Wild. Thursday, October 31st-Friday, November 1st 9am-3pm at Paul Smith’s College, Gabriels

Homeschool Day at Great Adirondack Corn Maze October 25, 2019

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!!!!!

Tucker Farms is offering a discount to homeschoolers on Friday, October 25 for their Great Adirondack Corn Maze. $6 for kids, $8 for adults. http://www.tuckertaters.com/corn_maze.html

Please RSVP to sunitahalasz@gmail.com with the total number in your group by October 21, 2019 so that I can give them our head count.

Please arrive between 12-4pm. They have another big group coming in at 6pm, so they'd like to have us out of the maze by then.

Location: Tucker's Farm, Hobart Rd., Saranac Lake, NY 12983

Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake: Homeschooler Discount for "Athena" and Children's Auditions Announcement

From: Pendragon Theatre

Subject: ATHENA!

The "Athena" play is recommended for teens. https://www.pendragontheatre.org/athena

We would like to offer the homeschoolers a deal of $5 per student/ $10 adults to attend ATHENA on ANY of the remaining dates.  If you all can organize a time to come as a group that is not Sunday (with a "talk back" anyway) we can have a pre-show talk with the cast and director.  That way, the students can know what to look for during the show (such as parallels with Athena of Greek Mythology, for example).   Folks can come as individuals, too. They just need to tell Kent they are homeschoolers when purchasing tickets.  Remaining shows are:  October 18, 19, 25, 26 @ 7:30 PM and October 20, 27 @ 2 PM.

PRESS RELEASE:  AUDITIONS FOR MR. TOAD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL OCT. 13 & 14

This brand new adaptation of the holiday favorite finds theatrical impresario, Mr.Toad, of Wind in the Willows fame, producing and directing his version of Dickens’ tale. In spite of a bumpy final dress rehearsal, a cast-wide cold and last minute cast replacements, the show goes on when quick thinking children rise to the occasion to produce a Christmas Carol that is uniquely faithful to the original story.
There are roles for as many as 20 actors and all parts, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, will be cast with actors between the ages of five through eighteen.
Auditions will be held at the theatre on October 13 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. and October 14 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. Rehearsals are scheduled to begin the first week of November.
Performances are slated for December 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27 and 28.
Audition scenes will be available for preparation at the box office. Questions? Call Pendragon Theatre 518-891-1854.

Annual Homeschool History Day

Our Annual Homeschool History Day is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2019! 

RSVP with the number of kids you are bringing by email to Sunita at sunitahalasz@gmail.com.

The cost is $5 per family, which gives you admission for the day to the Historic Saranac Lake Laboratory Museum and also serves as a donation to our hosts at the museum who will also be our guides for our afternoon activities.

Morning activities will take place in the John Black Room (basement) of the museum. In addition to the upstairs part of the museum (the laboratory), there is a display called "The Art of the Cure" in the John Black Room, so be sure to take time to look at it!

Please arrive at 9:30am to put your potluck food in the fridge and give your treasure to the treasure bag fillers. The museum has a full kitchen.

Kids' presentations will start at 10am. Then, we will all share a potluck lunch together around noon.

In the afternoon, we will caravan over to the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Saranac Lake to learn about and honor some of fascinating people buried there who influenced local and also world history. We will most likely be done at 2-2:30pm. Here's what you need to do to participate:

1. Please RSVP by October 15, at the latest, so that we have a complete head count for participants to use for treasure contributions.

2. Kids are NOT required to prepare a presentation (because being in the audience is an important role too!), but if they would like to choose a historical person, place, or thing to dress up as and present about for about 5 minutes, it really is a fun way to practice no-pressure public speaking! Parents can feel free to stand up with their kids while they present and help prompt them or act as their interviewer to help them remember the facts they researched.

3. If you are able, please bring a small treasure to put into each child's goody bag that they will get at the end of the day. In the past, people have brought things like pencils, stickers, apples, etc.

4. Please bring a dish to pass. Please let us know if your kids have any allergies we should be aware of.