Date: Tuesdays starting April 14th (the end date has not yet been determined)
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (ages 5-9); 1:30pm - 3:30pm (ages 10+)
Fee:  $5 per week/per child; pay as you go
Instructor:  Ike Johnson
Where:  Larchmont Center Community Association Courts, Mt. Laurel. At Route 38 and Larchmont Blvd, turn toward the United Jersey Plaza.  Courts are located behind the Plaza to the left.

This event is open to ALL homeschoolers!  Please email Tracy Apple at gtafam@juno.com to confirm your child for this class.  Please provide your child's name and age. No need to purchase a racquet for your child; extra racquets are provided. 

If anyone is willing and able to assist Ike on the courts, please contact Tracy.  Help is always needed since there has always been so many kids interested in tennis.  There is also a playground and picnic tables right next to the courts for little ones.

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 their website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westjerseyhomeschoolers and click on the Join This Group button.

The Brunswick Zone in Turnersville is offering a 10-week bowling program for kids of all ages starting Tuesday, 4/7/09 at 12:30pm.

The program will run 10 consecutive Tuesdays.  Bumpers are available.  The price is $5.00 per bowler which includes shoes and two games with coaching/instruction.  There is a $15.00 maximum per family.  Kids' Meals are available for $3.00 and food from outside is permitted.

For more info or to sign up, contact Valerie at 856-629-2422 or sd.bz.turnersville@brunbowl.com.

Love and laughter, song and dance, Romeo and Juliet.  Come experience this timeless tale as you’ve never seen it before. Our adaptation will provide family-friendly entertainment!

Tuesday, April 28th at 7:00pm
Thursday, April 30th at 4:00pm
Thursday, April 30th 7:30pm
Friday, May 1st at 7:00pm

Performed in the theatre at the Burlington County Institute of Technology, 695 Woodlane Road in Westampton.

Admission: $5 donation at the door; proceeds to benefit Urban Promise of Camden, NJ and 4-H Youth Development

Directions: from I-295 take exit 45A.  The ramp feeds onto Rancocas Road heading towards Mt. Holly. Turn left at the third light onto Irick Road.  Turn right at the next light onto Woodlane Road.  The BCIT driveway is just ahead on the left.

Thirty-five home educated teens are involved in this production!  For more information contact mrsthib@gmail.com.

New Jersey School of Music, based in Medford, NJ celebrates half a century by expanding!   A new location will open in Cherry  Hill, NJ.
 
The Music plays on, defying a bad economy, determined to educate the community, provide jobs, and increase opportunities for musicians.

Five decades ago a small music school was founded in the community of Medford New Jersey. Over the years, the New Jersey School of Music expanded as it nurtured thousands of students while providing culture, educational opportunities and enrichment to the community. Currently, with homeschool mom, Renee Sutin, at the helm, the Medford location continues this rich tradition, employing twenty four professional musicians, teaching in excess of 600 lessons per week to a new generation of aspiring musicians.

New Jersey School of Music is pleased and excited to announce the opening of the New Jersey School of Music Piano Annex in the studios above the Jacob's Music showroom, located at 1200 Haddonfield Rd. in Cherry Hill.

On April 6, 2009, the New Jersey School of Music Piano Annex will begin lessons, bringing a long history of experience and tradition of service to the community of Cherry Hill.  For more information please call (856) 910-0060, or visit our website at:  www.njschoolofmusic.com

Homeschooling allows kids to learn or study without any kind of pressure. It can be a pleasure for them without having to prove their abilities. Home schooling is also beneficial as it gives parents the opportunity to understand their child better. Depending upon the child's strengths and weaknesses, assigning work differently will ensure that child understands and undertakes learning.

When children undertake learning from experience through their own work, exploring information and trying to understand facts by themselves can prove to be a better form of learning. Rather, it would be learning in the real sense. There is no kind of pressure and with due consideration the child can complete their given tasks properly. If a child is slow then home schooling can help, as they would not be under continuous pressure to catch up with other children.

Charlotte Mason, the Christian educator's schools, never gave homework, learning literature and mastery by narration was the preferred method in the elementary year. Parental attention and learning from experience proves to be a better way to remember things. Usually with home schooling what is more important is that the child understands concepts properly and not how much time is required to understand them. There may be the need for homework in a formal school, as it may be considered to understand the grasping of the children. However, with home schooling, as the child is undertaking everything at home with parental guidance, homework is not required. Rather it is possible to design the curriculum such that it contributes to productivity of the child.

As the child learns in a homely environment he is more relaxed. Sometimes, some children may be afraid of a teacher for no particular reason, and may not understand what is being taught nor have the courage to get it clarify any doubts with the teacher. This would not be a problem in home school settings. The teachers may not have enough time to solve each and every query personally. In such cases, parents can build up confidence my sorting out varied questions immediately. When you are home schooling kids, more than the homework, the practical way of learning proves to be more useful. Children can learn in leisure running, climbing, yelling, practicing instruments and even handling special chores. They can socialize with neighbors; observe natural beauty etc, which is not possible at a public school.

Instead of having to do homework, when home schooling children learn literature not from the notes of teacher but from their own reading and commenting of literary work and putting it into words oral or written. Explaining by teacher may be bore sometimes for children. But if they do it on their own they would feel interested. With homework, children tend to become fed up sometimes and you may even notice the lack of knowledge and ideas in learning that way. Learning through homework is seen as a fast output from child's end. A child may simply get the homework over with just to get rid of what they deem as a burden. However, this does not mean that the child has grasped everything. A regular course of learning at home could be the perfect antidote for every home schooled child. The time and effort on both, the parent and the child, will ensure that all goes down well even without homework.

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Taken from Todd Wilson's Family Man Ministries at www.familymanweb.com.