Fresno State Farm Tour Field Trip coming on Friday, September 23rd

This Field Trip to the Fresno State Farm will be a wonderful educational experience geared for students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade.

Please sign up at Mountain Home School by Friday, September 16th.

Fresno State has a very strict policy that we need to follow. Please read the following carefully.

*No Children under the age of five years can attend a farm tour. The university has decided that children under the age of five are a safety risk! No strollers are allowed on property!

*Parents are required to park only in the designated farm parking and purchase parking permits to park on campus.

*Students are asked to adhere to the following rules:
-No climbing on or putting heads through fences
-No feeding animals
-No running
-Absolutely No petting, unless instructed to do so by the tour guide
-No throwing anything at any time
-No sandals, visitors MUST wear closed-toe shoes

Cost: $2.oo for each student attending farm tour
Please pay in advanced to Melissa. Parent chaperones are free.
Additional costs will be parking permits ($3.00 required) and ice cream (optional).

Schedule for the day:

8:45 Meet at Fresno State in LOT 'Y' (pick up map and packet at Mountain Home School)Parents MUST purchase a Parking Permit for the day ($3.00).
Permits may be purchased at dispensers or at the Police Department on campus.

9:00 Fresno State Farm Tour

11:00 Bring your own picnic lunch to eat at O'Neill Park

12:00 Visit Fresno State Market. Ice Cream available for purchase

Contact: Sylvia Sloas (ext 18) or Kim Meeks (ext 19)

School Pictures coming September 12th and 15th, 8:30am-12pm, click here to print order form

School pictures are coming next week! Michael Jones Photography will be here on Monday, Sept. 12th and Thursday, Sept. 15th from 8:30-12:00. Other family members are welcome to take pictures, as well. Packets will be available for purchase. Free Student I.D.'s will be available upon request only (see order form). Parents can purchase an I.D. card for $5.00.

Click here to download an order form.

Say Cheese!!

First attendance due this September 9th by 2pm.

Dear Mountain Home and Glacier High School families,

This is just a friendly reminder that our first month of attendance is due this, Friday September 9th by 2pm. Please remember to sign each line of attendance in either a blue or black pen. Please mark the appropriate boxes for subjects covered each day.

If you need a copy of a blank attendance form, you may find it at:

• Attendance for Mountain Home Families
• Attendance for Glacier High School Families

Thank you for turning this in on time, it really benefits the school and all the families we serve. Please contact your charter teacher if there is a problem turning in your attendance.

School Kick-Off Night September 8th at 5pm

Students and Families of Mountain Home & Glacier High School,
We welcome you to our School Kick-Off Night!

Where: Mountain Home School & Glacier High School (Oakhurst Campus)
When: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

We’ll be providing hot-dogs, chips, & drink. Come hear about the school year, meet the staff and our new homeschooling families!

We hope you can join us!

School staff will also host 3, 15-minute “breakout” sessions for parents/students on the following topics: new family question & answer, Internet safety, & school theme start up: “Around the World” showcase days.

**Bring your beach chairs as seating limited.

**Please help us plan by writing your family’s name down on the sign-up sheet with how many will be attending!

Live Interactive Field Trip for Central Valley Home Schoolers at Fresno Pacific - September 16 - RSVP

Fresno Pacific University Invitation; Continuing Education invites you to a...

Live Interactive Field Trip for Central Valley Home Schoolers

Program Flyer: Constitution Day 2011: Powers of the President

FOR:  Education: Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

WHEN:  September 16

TIME:  Start time:  11:00 AM PST

            End time:   12:00 PM PST

WHERE:  FPU Main Campus SCC Room 103 (see attached map below)

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:  40 Maximum

TEST:  If the connection TEST to the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis does not work, I will let you know three days before the actual event.  

Reserve your spot now:  Email Janet Adams  jadams.adamsapple@gmail.com  with name of student and grade level.  When you are confirmed, I will email the prepared Study Guide.

  Arrive 15 minutes early.  The program begins right at 11:00 AM PST 

  Because of the grade level content, young children attending would not be advantageous. 

Program Length

60 minutes

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Description: The 11:00 AM PST program will focus on the President and international issues. Our scheduled panelists of political scientists, Presidential scholars, and Presidential advisers will be able to provide great insights into the questions above and your students’ questions as well as we discuss the powers of the President. Viewers will also hear directly from President George H.W. Bush and President William J. Clinton through video messages created specifically for the program. The program will air from the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri.

Program Format:

Pre-Program Information—The Constitution Day Study Guide prepared by The Missouri Bar is available as a download with this web exhibit if you enroll for our program. It is also available for anyone’s use at www.mobar.org in the Educators’ section under Constitution Day. The guide will include Constitutional issues to consider, questions, worksheets and other activities designed to get your students thinking about the issues that will form the focus of the program.

Program Order—The videoconference program will consist of the following segments. Student questions and comments will be welcomed throughout the program.  This program will focus on Presidential powers in the foreign policy arena. A finalized program agenda detailing the specific powers to be explored in segment 2 below and specific examples of decision-making referred to in segment 3 below will be sent to schools upon their enrollment in the program. 1. Welcome and Introduction—Student groups and experts will be introduced and welcomed to the program. 2. Powers of the Presidency—This section of the program will explore the Presidential powers enumerated in the Constitution and the historical background and debate for determining those powers. 3. Process of Presidential Decision-Making and Implications of Presidential Action—This section of the program will look at historic examples of Presidential decision-making, processes used to make those decisions, and implications of those decisions on the separation and balance of power between the three branches of government as well as on the nation as a whole. 4. Summary and Closing—We’ll summarize the major Constitutional implications of the program’s discussion and close the program.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

1. Explain the purpose of Article II of the United States Constitution.

2. Evaluate and defend the role of the President in the American Constitutional System.

3. Explain how the executive branch has evolved since 1787 and the implications of this evolution.

4. Compare and contrast the executive branch of George Washington’s presidency with the present day presidency.

Other Resources for CONSTITUTION DAY

www.thinkfinity.org

type in the SEARCH field "constitution" and click GO

  Share this URL or email to your home school colleagues about this videoconference.

  www.adamsapple.wikispaces.com

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Janet Adams559-978-2048

Wild Water Day August 19th at 11am

It’s time to have some fun! On Friday, August 19th, we will begin our new school year with a trip to Wild Water Park.  The cost is $12.50 per person and the deadline to sign up & pay is Tuesday, August 16th.  The fee is nonrefundable. Even if you didn’t originally sign up in June, we’d love to have you attend.  We will meet at the park entrance at 11:00 a.m. to distribute tickets, so please arrive on time. Families may bring their lunch and drinks as in past years but need to remember that no glass containers are allowed inside the park. Wild Water’s address is 11413 East Shaw Avenue, Clovis, CA. If you need more information or driving directions, please go to www. wildwater.net. Feel welcome to contact Skip or Mindy if you have any other questions!

School Starts August 15th - August/September Newsletter now available.

The official start of school begins on Monday, August 15th. We look forward to seeing our returning families and meeting our new ones! If you are one of our new families to Mountain Home, welcome! You should have received our August/September 2011 newsletter in the mail last week. If not you can view it online in pdf format. Click here to view it. For the remainder of the year you will receive our monthly newsletter only online. Let us know if you have any trouble viewing this file. Please take some time to carefully read each months newsletter and don't forget that you can get the latest information directly from our website www.mountainhomecharter.org