Local Meetings

UpcomingMeetings

and Field Trips

of L.C.C.E.A.

(Lower Columbia Christian Education Association)

INDEX

FOR THIS PAGE:

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS
FIELD TRIPS

LOCAL TESTING

NOTE TO PARENTS

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS

We meet at East Kelso Baptist Church at 7pm

on either the first OR second Monday of each month,

depending on the month. See each month

for specific dates.

~ Scroll further down this page for "Other Meetings/Activities"

in the area, including Testing.

~ For how we handle babies at meetings, please see

"NOTE TO PARENTS" at bottom of page.

DATE

MAIN ACTIVITY

CHILDREN

September

12th

(Monday)

Kick-off Meeting!

Our first meeting of the new

"home school year"!

We thought it would be fun to start off this homeschool year with a little history on LCCEA. So, sharing on the past years of LCCEA will be Dick and Pat Kennedy and Barb Shelton. And then Regina and David Beer, the new "Prez couple" will share on what they hope to see in the future for LCCEA.

(We REALLY hope DADS will come too!!!)

Child Care

for Babies.

Time of Fellowship

for Ages 5 and up

October 3rd

2005

A Father's

Blessing

A panel

of homeschool dads

will be talking.

Child Care

for Babies.

Time of Fellowship

for Ages 5 and up

November 7th

2005

Living

Biographies

Our kids will be

doing presentations on

a favorite person.

Child Care

for Babies.

Ages 5 and up will be involved in the presentations

For the rest of the meetings this year,

please refer to Homeschool Harmony's website:

http://www.homeschoolharmony.com/meetingslccea.html

(They have now taken over leadership of LCCEA!)

FIELD TRIPS

EVENT

AGE

DATE

& TIME

PLACE

DETAILS

STATUS?

CONTACT

No field trips are planned at this time (that I know of); contact Karla Bean with any ideas,

or Barb Shelton with any plans so I can post them here.

LOCAL TESTING
PRIVATE (ONE-ON-ONE) ASSESSMENTS
DATES	AGE	COST	TIME	PLACE	DETAILS	CONTACT
Available year-round	All ages	$75 for one student, any age	Any time you arrange with Dave	By arrangement with Dave	Dave would be happy to send a brochure upon request, or call him at 360-577-1958 with any questions!	Dave Nelmark (who is a homeschooling dad himself!)

GROUP TESTING
DATES	AGE	COST	TIME	PLACE	DETAILS	CONTACT
Dates to be announced for 2006 (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday)	For homeschooled students Ages 8-18	$35/student if parent helps with scoring and analysis * ~ OR ~ $65/student if parent does not assist with scoring and analysis * *Add $10 for Level 13 which is consumable.	9:00am to 11:30am on each of the three days	East Kelso Baptist Church This is where our monthly homeschool group meetings are always held.	Pre-registration is non-optional for this. Linda coaches the parents through this as a group, on Friday afternoon, after the testing is done.	Linda & Loren Krenelka (the testers) Email ~or~ Phone: 360-785-4925

~* Note to Parents *~

OUR VIEWS ON CHILDREN AT MEETINGS

Please read

this before coming to

a meeting!

We welcome you to attend the monthly homeschool meetings of our group, LCCEA (Lower Columbia Christian Education Assn.) Our "vision statement" is to "encourage, refresh, edify and equip homeschooling parents as they seek and follow God for the education of their children." To this end, we do not allow distracting children in our meetings. We have provided childcare for children of all ages:

~ There is a nursery for babies/children ages 5 and under.

~ There are class and craft times for children 5 through 15. The 5~15 group will be divided into two groups: "5~9ish" and "10 and up." There will be a craft and a lesson going on in two rooms at same time. The first group goes from 7 to 8, and the second from 8:05ish to 9, with the 2 groups switching activities half-way through the evening.

Those who don't feel comfortable leaving their kids in the children's classes we ask to work out other arrangements for their children, such as with grandparents, a sitter at home, etc.

Many of us have been to meetings where noisy or "visible" children keep those present from fully being able to enjoy and get the most out of the meeting. This problem seems to be particularly common among homeschoolers who are very "pro-children" ~ as are those of us on the LCCEA board; we are all homeschooling parents ourselves.

We do not want to be offensive or hurtful to anyone, but in order to provide a meeting that is refreshing to the group as a whole, and one that makes leading the meeting as easy as possible for those in that position, we have come to the place where, if a child is being at all distracting, we expect the parent to promptly remove the child from the room. (By "distracting" we mean "able to be heard or seen" which would include not only crying, but also fussing, whispering, playing, walking or crawling around, etc.)

If it becomes obvious that we have different views of what exactly is "distracting," one of the leaders of the group will ~ kindly, and as discreetly as possible ~ ask you to remove your child from the room… not because we don't love you or your child, or because we enjoy embarrassing people, or because we want you to miss out on the meeting, but because we have a responsibility to those who have given up an evening of their lives to join us, as well as to those who are serving the group by leading the meeting. None of us relish this responsibility, so we hope you will be sensitive to this and act accordingly.