Tonight’s event has been cancelled.  Please stay tuned for updated information.

PLACE: Battleship NJ, Camden
DATE: Wednesday, May 20
TIME: 11:00am (Trip lasts 1.5 hours)
COST: $8 per person
AGES: Recommended for ages 5 and older due to ladder climbing  between decks.

Get ready for the Battleship NJ Firepower field trip!  Visit the Bridge, Communications, Captain's and Admiral's Cabins, and Officer's Wardroom.  Learn about the role the "Black Dragon" played in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Climb up and down the companionways.  Examine the lockers that had to hold all of a sailor's personal belongings.  Check out the enlisted men's bunks.

Pants and skid free shoes recommended.  Parking will have a fee, as we'll have to park in the adjacent lots. Bring along a bagged lunch or choose to eat from the chow line after our tour.  We will eat lunch in the mess hall.

Email Kelly Linhart at plinhart1@yahoo.com to sign up.  Payments are due April 6, made out to Home Port Alliance. Mail payments to Kelly Linhart.  For more information visit www.battleshipnewjersey.org.

DATE: Friday, April 24th
PLACE: Washington Crossing State Park, Thompson-Neely Section
COST: $8.00 per adult $4 per child

Experience a Colonial Spring!  The event is scheduled to include:

* shearing of the sheep
* spinning & weaving demonstrations
* colonial laundering
* kids games and activities
* historic garden interpretation
* colonial spring cooking
* open house tours of the Thompson-Neely
* & more!

If interested contact Sharon Patterson at spatterson76@comcast.net.  For more information, visit www.ushistory.org/WashingtonCrossing/index.htm.

This event was originally advertised on the West Jersey Homeschooler's Yahoo Discussion Group, a local area group dedicated to sharing educational and social opportunities for all homeschoolers.  If you would like to join this discussion group, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westjerseyhomeschoolers and click on the Join This Group button.

Another field trip is being planned to Indian Trail Farm. The activities include:

• Pony Ride (horse or pony with trainer leading)
• Hayride
• Learn interesting facts about horses
• Learn about and feed the Myotonic (Feinting) Goats (the Mom went into labor so the 'kids' will be just 8 weeks old!)
• Learn about their Mediterranean donkeys
• Learn about Lenape Indians in an authentic tipi
• Craft

Date: Friday, April 17th (rain date is May 1st)
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Where: INDIAN TRAIL FARM, 3658 Maple Ave, Vineland
Fee: Kids, $20; No charge for adults
Lunch: Pack a lunch for after the activities

For more information about Indian Trail Farm visit their website at www.indiantrailfarm.com.

To participate contact Deb at dsgiacom@aol.com.

The Learning Community of Bergen and Rockland (TLC) has planned a Homeschool Day with the Liberty Science Center. Please come join us and other homeschool families from NY, NJ, CT, and PA for a day of learning and fun.

DATE: Monday, March 30
TIME: 9am-4pm Come when it is best for you!
DESCRIPTION: Come explore *LSC's* three themed floors: Environment, Health, and Invention, featuring dozens of exciting hands-on exhibits.
COST: Group Rate $10.50 child; $13.50 adult
LOCATION: 222 Jersey City Blvd, Jersey City

For parking and directions go to: http://www.lsc.org/lsc/visit/directions.  For information about the museum go to: http://www.lsc.org.  Please RSVP to amazzingpet@aol.com if you are planning on coming. 

We'd like to invite all homeschoolers to join us at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida for the Ultimate Field Trip 2009 brought to you exclusively by 3D Travel Company, where we help you make the most out of the best Disney has to offer. We provide the highest level of Disney discounts and most personalized service available, at no extra cost to you (Disney pays us a commission). When you travel with us (that's right, we'll be there too!), you get a Magic Your Way package with a stay at any Disney resort, customizable tickets and dining options and special Disney group events we have never been able to offer before! All of this comes with an extra heaping of pixie dust and pleasure as you experience the Magic of Disney in ways you never dreamed possible!

Visit www.theultimatefieldtrip.com for additional details and reservation information.

The Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees is offering discounted rates to homeschoolers on the second Friday of every month from 12:30pm - 2:30pm.  Admission is $5.00 per child and $2.00 for skate rentals.  Walkers are available for young children.  Upon arrival, be sure to inform the person at the front desk that you are part of the homeschool group to get the discounted rate.

For more information contact Jennifer Bralow at asadmom@comcast.net.  For information about the Flyers Skate Zone visit their website at www.flyersskatezone.com.

Hello everyone,

For those interested we are having a free Chessnuts club at the Mount Laurel Library (this is in addition to our normal Evesham Library Chessnuts which meets the first Wednesday of the month).

This chess club is open to all children, not just homeschooled, at all chess levels. We will be meeting from 5:30pm - 7:30pm on the following dates:  February 17 &  24, March 17 &  24, April 14 &  28, May 12, June 16 & 23.  We are hoping to eventually meet every Tuesday night, but these were the only dates available at this Library.  Mount Laurel Library is located conveniently off of 295 and the NJ Turnpike, go to this site for directions http://www.mtlaurel.lib.nj.us/about/directions.html.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at tlkolo@hotmail.com. 

Thanks,
Tammy

Join us at the Woodruff Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge to renew your enthusiasm, enhance your content knowledge and fulfill the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards. Best of all, you’ll earn continuing education credits to help you meet the New Jersey Professional Development Standards. Project Learning Tree is provider #64 with the Department of Education.  Correlations to the NJ Standards can be found at www.teachnjenv.org.

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 9:00‐3:00 pm
Cost: $10 per person
Instructors: Terri Loy and Becca Gutwirth

This exciting, hands‐on workshop is designed for educators working in classrooms and nature centers with Kindergarten‐8th grade students. Activities foster collaborative learning decisionmaking skills, and literacy. Discover lessons to connect your students with the world around them, and opportunities for service learning. Each participant will receive the Project Learning Tree K‐8 Activity Guide. Bring a brown bag lunch.

Reserve your space by Tuesday, March 17, 2009.  Register by calling Terri Loy (856) 983‐9702 or email terri.loy@cedarrun.org.  Click here for more details and registration information.

The Great Big Happy Life is a Radical Unschooler's Conference Retreat, scheduled on April 28th - May 1st, is an opportunity to connect with like-minded families, expand your notion of what it means to live with children, and participate in the unschooling movement as it changes the world.

There will be opportunities for stillness, chances to reflect on your journey, spaces for rejuvenating your unschooling spirit, and thousands of ways to just be.  There will be discussion groups, family activities, stuff to do for kids of every age, creek hikes, nature walks, tattoo parlor, roaming massage therapists, yoga for families, funshops for all, delicious meals, and a service project opportunity.

Whether this is your first conference or your tenth, you can expect that delicious sense of knowing that comes when you are surrounded by families who embrace unschooling in every corner of their lives.