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/

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.

Six Nations Native American Museum

Tammy Neureuther and Samantha Marocco have organized a homeschool field trip to the Six Nations Native American Museum in Onchiota, NY.

Six Nations Museum: Onchiota, NY

http://www.sixnationsindianmuseum.com/ 

11am on Monday, October 7th 

(12 and under $3; and 12 and over $5)  

****Please RSVP to Samantha Marocco at smarocco@gmail.com

Fort Ticonderoga Homeschool Day

Spend a day at Fort Ticonderoga and take part in a series of programs designed for homeschool families! While interacting with soldiers, students can ask about life at the 18th-century fort. Step aboard the 1920s replica tour boat, Carillon, for a 75-minute narrated boat tour on Lake Champlain to gain an in-depth waterway experience. Raise your hand in allegiance and enlist in the Continental Army during the immersive “To Act as One United Body” program and practice formation tactics, drills, and marches. Explore a new 2019 design in the six-acre Heroic Maze and answer clues connected to Fort Ticonderoga’s history as you find your way through the maze.

Pre-registration is not necessary. To purchase Carillon Boat Tickets and To Act as One United Body tickets, visit the booth located near the Log House Welcome Center upon arrival to Homeschool Day.

Additional Information

EVENT DETAILS

Scheduled For:

Friday, September 6, 2019 @ 9:30am–5:00pm

Cost:

General Admission: $6/student, 1 free parent, $12/additional parent.
Carillon Boat & General Admission Combination Ticket: $12/student, $14/parent.
To Act as One United Body Program: Additional $4/student.

Student rates apply to Grades K-12.

National History Day

Rich Strum via fortticonderoga.onmicrosoft.com	10:53 AM (1 minute ago)
to Rich

Greetings from Fort Ticonderoga!

I hope the new school year is off to a good start for you and your students!

I wanted to touch base early in the school year and let you know about this year’s North Country History Day.

THIS YEAR’S THEME: Triumph and Tragedy in History

The 2019 theme books and other resources are all available on the Fort Ticonderoga website at:

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/education/students/historyday

NEW THIS YEAR! TEACHER WORKSHOP OCTOBER 12^TH

This year Fort Ticonderoga is hosting a free National History Day Workshop for Teachers on Friday, October 12^th. The workshop runs from 9:00 to 3:00 and features sessions introducing History Day to new teachers, how to integrate History Day into your curriculum, an introduction to this year’s theme, and a session on locating local and regional primary sources for your students. You can learn more and download a registration form at:

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/events/fort-events/national-history-day-workshop-for-teachers/detail

THIS YEAR’S CONTEST

This year’s North Country History Day Contest takes place on Saturday, March 2, 2019. Registration for all entries will be due by February 8, 2019. The registration fee remains at $10 per student, which will be due with submitted registrations. Registration will be online beginning shortly after New Year’s Day.

SUPPORT FROM THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR

I am always happy to provide advice and answer questions about History Day. I’m available to meet with administrators, teachers, and/or students. Please let me know if you’d like to schedule a visit to your school,

PLANNING AHEAD

History Day is not a day, it’s an experience. As veterans, you know that History Day projects don’t just happen. Now is the time to plant the seed. Projects should be well underway by late October. I’ve found the “Teachers” section from the New York State History Day website to be a great way to organize the History Day program in your school. Here’s the link:

http://nyshistoryday.org/teachers/#nhd

THANK YOU

Thank you for your past support of North Country History Day. I look forward to working with you and your students again this school year!

Best,

Rich

Richard M. Strum
Director of Academic Programs
Fort Ticonderoga
PO Box 390
Ticonderoga, NY  12883
(518) 585-6370

Homeschool History Day

History Day is scheduled for Tuesday, October 30, 2018! 

We will meet in the morning at 9:30am at Historic Saranac Lake's Laboratory Museum for kids' presentations, which will start at 10am. Then, we will all share a potluck lunch together at noon. In the afternoon, we will caravan over to the Bela Bartok Cabin to learn about this famous historical musical visitor. We will most likely be done at 2:30-3:00pm. Here's what you need to do to participate:

1. Please RSVP by October 16 so that we have a complete head count.

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! 

I have gone up with my kids to act as their interviewer to prompt them for facts about what they researched. One year, my older son was being interviewed and my younger son just stood there next to him dressed up as the historical person's sidekick. (Hee hee hee. Oh memories!) The point is, anything goes, and there is no pressure. Just fun and pride in getting to share cool information with other homeschoolers.

3. If you are able, please bring a small treasure to put into each child's goody bag that they 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.

RSVP to me: Sunita Halasz (sunitahalasz@gmail.com)

Thanks!

Summary of Fall Homeschool Events

Fall is a busy time of year for field trip opportunities and fun events for homeschoolers. I wanted to send out a reminder email for all of the different adventures that are planned! Please refer to the links below, previous emails, facebook postings or the blog for details.

Tri-Lakes Area Not Back to School Picnic at the Saranac Lake Carousel (All invited) Sept 6th

Fort Ti Homeschool Day Sept 8th

Adirondack Experience Homeschool Day (this is a link to Facebook ~ Homeschool Day at Adirondack Experience (Museum at Blue Mountain Lake ~ September 13th

The Wild Center Homeschool Day  Oct 18th

Annual Homeschool History Day (Saranac Lake ~ All are invited) October 26th

Lake Placid Center for the Arts School Day Matinee Performances (Fall + beyond)

Annual Homeschool History Day

The Annual Homeschool History Day will take place on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at Saranac Village at Will Rogers in Saranac Lake from 9:30 am to about 2:30 pm. The kids will do their presentations (in costume!) on the historical person (or thing) that they chose to research. Because we're at Will Rogers this year, the seniors who live there will be able to attend the kids' presentations and maybe even weigh in on some of the history! Then we'll have our potluck lunch in the downstairs room (where Game Night happens and where there is a kitchen and fridge for our use), and then we will come back up to the Great Room to watch the amazing documentary, "Hotel Hope" about the original Will Roger's Sanitorium. I'll ask the Activities Director if she has some ideas of how we can fit in a scavenger hunt around the building and grounds that has an educational basis! This event is hosted in conjunction by Saranac Village at Will Rogers and Historic Saranac Lake. Please only RSVP if you are certain you can come because this event requires a lot of planning and a specific head count.

Sunita Halasz

sunitahalasz@gmail.com

518-891-6440