Used book and curriculum sale: NEW DATE

NEW DATE AND LOCATION

The Northland CORE used book and curriculum sale will be at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, on Saturday, May 12, 2012, for $10 a table. The money is donated to the church for the use of the space.
CORE will buy an ad in the News Tribune and put signs up outside. Shopping is open to the public for no entry fee. Each seller managers her own sales and needs her own change. Sellers can come at 8 a.m. to set up. The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Address: 2012 E. Superior St.

Register as a seller: E-mail Beverly, beverlyduluth (at) aol.com

Experts' Night 2012

Thanks for coming out! I'll get photos up here soon.

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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Science teacher seeks homeschool groups

  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.

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       

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

"A Christmas Carol" at Denfeld

NOTE: The school show was canceled. The Friday, Saturday and Sunday regular performances are still ON!

Denfeld High School presents "A Christmas Carol." 4405 West 4th Street, Duluth, MN

$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.

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

Learn to use Photoshop

Make your own animated movie

Use stop-motion techniques

Edit video, add a soundtrack

It's only $50 for five weeks plus the show-and-tell day

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

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