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There is a new venture in the area whose mission is to support homeschoolers with teaching assistance for elementary and junior high science. The teacher has an extensive background in outdoor education, a WI teaching license for general and life science, and is finishing her Master's Degree in Education at UMD. Tutoring is an option, but she prefers teaching groups. For more information, go to www.eagle-brook.net.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Experts' Night 2012
** NEW LOCATION **
Friday, March 30, 2012
6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Hartley Nature Center
3001 Woodland Ave., Duluth
Northland CORE will host Experts’ Night on the evening of Friday, March 30, 2012.
Families will get together and give their students a chance to shine. Experts’ Night is like a science fair, but projects can be about anything. Each project should include a visual display (such as a tri-fold poster board), report and hands-on activity (such as a coloring page, quiz, food sample or science experiment). The level of difficulty and amount of help the students get is entirely up to the homeschooling parents.
The event will be at Hartley Nature Center, 3001 Woodland Ave., Duluth, Minn., at 6 p.m. Arrive anytime from 6-7 p.m., when students will set up their displays and get the chance to walk around to see other displays and talk with other students. From 7-8 p.m., each participant should be at his or her table while families and other guests view their displays. There will be a comments sheet on each table so the students can get positive feedback about their project. Participants are free to leave early if the evening gets too late for little ones.
There is no judging, and each participant gets a ribbon. The event is open to all Northland homeschoolers, including those who are not members of Northland CORE. Thanks to a generous discount from Hartley Nature Center, we'll be able to provide this fun evening at no cost to participants.
Registration is not required, but it helps to know how many people are coming. Please send e-mail to beverlyduluth@aol.com.
Pictured: Projects from previous Experts’ Nights. To see more photos, click on the links under Photo Albums on the left side of this web page.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Homeschool band starting -- deadline is SOON
Hello!
My name is Janna Blomquist and I don't know why it has taken me so long to think of this!! I am a private music teacher in Duluth. I teach both band instruments and piano, having been a band director for over 25 years. When my family moved here to Duluth in 2006, I taught band at Holy Rosary until 2009 when I went into private teaching full-time. I organize area middle school festivals for band students with fellow director Jenna Udenberg from Two Harbors and they are open to both public and private teachers.
The reason I am writing you is because I have also become associated with the Northland Youth Music Program and its director, Bob Greenberg. In addition to providing exciting annual summer music camps in Superior, WI, he and I are trying to begin a Winter Concert Band program called "Winter Winds". It is a 16-week program that meets on Monday nights from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the alternating locations of Proctor HS. and Superior HS. It will culminate with a concert in May following our last rehearsal on the 7th. This concert band is appropriate for students that are playing at an intermediate level on their instruments. One of the best students I have in my studio is a flute player by the name of Meghan Boster. This is the Boster family's first year of home-schooling and she misses playing in her school band! It is for students like Meghan that we are trying this program. We have been advertising since October in all the music stores and schools and in the press and radio. Unfortunately, we have only gotten a handful of responses and we need at least a dozen more by Friday as the scheduled start date is Monday, the 9th! Kari Boster gave me your contact information and we are hoping you can help, possibly by posting on the Northland Core blog. I am kicking myself for not thinking of this sooner!
Interested parents should contact Bob Greenberg directly at the numbers below as soon as possible. To find out more about me or watch my students in action, see my website below! I am always open to home school students for piano and a variety of wind instruments.
Thank you for ANYTHING you can do!!!
Janna Blomquist Bob Greenberg
Blomquist Music Studio 9670 East Elm Rd.
23 Howard Gnesen Rd. Poplar, WI 54864
Duluth, MN 55811 715-364-2234 OFFICE
(218)728-4635 218-340-0512 CELL
jannaandmark@msn.com www.nymp.net
Studio Website:
jannablomquist.musicteachershelper.com
Monday, January 2, 2012
Homeschool skating lessons
Duluth Figure Skating Club
Learn to Skate - Daytime
Heritage Arena
Thursdays 1-2 pm
Jan. 5 - March 1
(no class Jan. 26 due to Northland Competition)
8 weeks for $96
register online at www.duluthfsc.org
For more info...call Dianne at 879-4319
or gdkjda@juno.com
Friday, November 25, 2011
"A Christmas Carol" at Denfeld
NOTE: The school show was canceled. The Friday, Saturday and Sunday regular performances are still ON!
$7 for students and $10 for adults.
Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
UMD digital art workshop
Openings available! They'd like a few more students, and you can call in your registration. Class starts on Tuesday, Oct. 18
Digital Art Workshop for youth ages 11-14 through the Duluth Fine Art Academy at UMD.
Professor Betsy Hunt is gearing up for the third year of the workshop, which focuses on animation techniques including Photoshop animation and stop motion animation using clay, sand, collage, and various other materials. Students will also work with digital cameras, edit video, and add original music tracks to their films.
More information at http://www.d.umn.edu/faa/digitalart_workshop2010.htm.
email: bjhunt@d.umn.edu
phone: 218-726-7830
Friday, September 23, 2011
CORE Board wants you!
Hello homeschool community!
I hope that you all are off to a great start for this school year. It has been great to see many of you out and about at various homeschool events over the past couple of weeks. Speaking of events it is time to start thinking about what kinds of things we'd like to organize for the rest of the year. My goal for the year as the new CORE coordinator is to bring our community together even more than we already are. I want to have Northland CORE organize many more events for our community's homeschool families and give us all plenty of opportunities to get to know one another, and to just get out and have some fun!
In order to meet these goals we need your help! We need more homeschooling parents to serve on the CORE board to help come up with new ideas for the year, as well as parents who would be willing to take the reigns and plan an activity that would be open to the homeschool community at large. (You do not need to serve on the board to plan an activity, so you would not necessarily need to commit to anything long term.)
We are also looking for kids who would be interested on serving on an all new CORE Kids Advisory Board. This is the thing that I am most excited about this year! I am still working out details, but my hope is that we can put together this Kids Advisory Board to give our kids a chance to tell us what events they'd like to see happen, to help plan those events, and to write for the CORE newsletter, among other things.
The meeting will be 7 p.m. in the Barnes and Noble coffee shop.
EDITED: The CORE board meeting has been rescheduled for October 12th at 7 PM. We will still be meeting at Barnes & Noble.
If you have a child or children interested in serving on the Northland CORE Kid's Advisory Board please email me! I will be setting up a first meeting for the kid's board once I find out how many kids are interested in participating.
Thank you, everyone!
Shana Clauson
Northland CORE Coordinator
Free concerts at St. Scholastica
Mitchell Auditorium Multicultural Outreach Opportunities
Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica
Free! To register or for more information, call (218) 723-7000.
These free, high-quality workshops will each be from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Mitchell Auditorium at The College of St. Scholastica. Please follow the age guidelines for each workshop.
Reservations are required.
*NOTE DATE CORRECTION*
Lily Cai Chinese Dance ~ Thursday, October 27
Grades 4-8
1 p.m.: Watch the dance
3:30 p.m.: Workshop for children to learn the dance
Dynasties and Beyond: Chinese History and Culture
The Dynasty Suite presents dances from the past to the present, from the East to the West, drawing from thousands of years of Chinese culture, replete with colorful costumes and ornamental headdresses. The Suite is one of contrasts, from the flowing freedom of movement in dances from China’s Golden Age, the Tang Dynasty, to the constrained steps of the more recent Qing Dynasty, when foot-binding was fashionable. From its traditional beginning, the program then moves to a graceful East/West blend in Candelas, combining the Chinese sensibility of movement-within-the-space with Mahler’s music and the beauty of candlelight. The finale number blends the ancient art of Chinese ribbon dance with Lily Cai’s modern choreography.
The Intergalactic Nemesis
Thursday, Nov. 10
Grades 4-8
An old time radio drama or a live action comic book? You decide!
This live-action graphic novel version of The Intergalactic Nemesis projects1, 350 comic book panels while three actors perform the voices, one foley artist creates the sound effects, and one keyboardist plays the dramatic story score, live before your eyes...The story line of The Intergalactic Nemesis begins with, “The year is 1933. Pulitzer-winning reporter Molly Sloan, her intrepid assistant Timmy Mendez, and a mysterious librarian named Ben Wilcott face the most serious threat Earth has ever known: an impending invasion of sludge monsters from the planet Zygon…” Appropriate for the kid in everyone.
Ragamala Dance
Friday, Jan. 20
Grades 4-8
An unforgettable evening of Eastern Indian dance and Japanese taiko drumming
A fusion of South Indian classical dance, Japanese taiko drumming and Indian chenda drumming, Ragamala presents a unique, exhilarating, and unforgettable evening of dance and music. Featuring the vibrant sounds of taiko drumming group Wadaiko Ensemble Tokara (Japan) and chenda drummer K. Unnikrishnan (India), Ragamala presents a unique, exhilarating, and unforgettable evening of dance and music. Ragamala Dance seamlessly carries this South Indian classical dance form into the 21st century with dynamic artistry and collaborative partnerships with renowned composers, choreographers, poets, playwrights, and artists from around the world.
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