Join Chelsea area homeschoolers for a fun play day at Westover Park. There is a playground, an open area, and a bike path. We will meet from 11am-1pm, and feel free to bring lunch. Would you like to add a park day for your area of town to our calendar? Contact us at info@essentialchurchschool.org.
We are taking a little break before the holidays. Please explore your Member Page for answers to any of your questions. We try to post most of what you need there! NEED USERNAME? The username is a common question for our families. It is NOT your email address. It is explained in all of our school newsletters though. Check your other folders in your email for our school newsletters and information about usernames. The newsletter is sent to the primary email listed on your application or re-enrollment. The password reset is sent to the primary email address for the username/family. You can click LOST PASSWORD to reset your password, but you will need your username. You can still send emails to our office or leave voicemails. Just know that we will not be available to answer them until Monday, December 21st.
January 13, 2016, 10 AM, Birmingham district spelling bee, Shades Mountain Independent Church Birmingham registration: Contact Melissa Smith spellingbee@bellsouth.net Homeschool families who want to participate in one of the district spelling bees need to register through Learning at Home in order for your students to be able to participate in a District Spelling Bee. This is a requirement by the organization that sponsors the national spelling bee. If you have not yet registered your speller(s), please do so now! Registering with Learning at Home now gives your student more time to study the materials so that they are prepared for their District Bee. Laura Ann will send these materials once you are registered! The deadline for Learning at Home registration for $8 is December 17. Late registration will be $10, and “at-the-door” registration on the day of a District Bee will be $15. Instructions for registering are below. You may begin registering for the district bees that are scheduled! Please do so ASAP. To register for a specific bee, please contact the person listed above. Please provide these ladies with your speller(s) name(s), the name of the person that will be driving them to the bee, and a number where that person can be reached in case your spellers haven’t arrived at the time of the bee.
Join other homeschoolers in wintry fun! Visit Birmingham Homeschoolers Community for more information.
Join us for perhaps the largest valentine swap in the world! (And…we are not exaggerating) Get creative with your valentine boxes. There will be prizes awarded for the most creative ones! Bring a snack and drink to share. Also, prepare at least 50 valentines to deliver! (If you want to create more, that’s fine. We’ve found that 50 is about right to have plenty to share.)
Please save the date for this special retreat! Registration will open on July 16, 2015, at www.refreshhomeschoolretreat.com.
Join us for a traditional Easter egg hunt as well as spring fun! Bring plastic eggs(with or without goodies inside) and baskets for the egg hunt, and bring a spring treat/drink to share. Teens and older students can help with egg hiding if they prefer. Dads often join us on this day too! Bring kites and sport equipment for free time. Hopefully, we will have beautiful weather, but we will meet rain or shine and hide eggs under the pavilion if needed! For those who haven’t joined us in the past, we do hide tickets in eggs to redeem for prizes after the egg hunt. And here is our normal schedule: 1-1:30pm – Families arrive and drop off eggs at designated area. 1:30-2pm – Teens/Dads hide eggs at a designated location while children play or eat. 2pm – We gather in grade level groupings for the egg hunt, with preschool in front, then grades K-2, and grades 3-6 in back. We usually cross the parking lot with our students to access the egg hunt area. After the egg hunt, students look through their collected eggs for tickets and goodies. Empty eggs can be donated to BHC for use in the next year’s hunt, or you can take your collections home. The tickets are numbered, and students will return to the pavilion with their tickets to claim their prizes. This is a monthly BHC group event, and we hope you will come and meet new friends.
We encourage our families to participate and attend this special offering for families in the Birmingham Metro area. Also, encourage your co-ops, tutors, classes, providers to exhibit. Families who would be willing to share their curriculum choices should register for a table in the Curriculum Share portion. Need to sell curriculum? Looking for low cost curriculum options? There is a Used Curriculum Sale available. More information at http://birminghamhomeschoolfair.com
Please insure your student's participation is secured by February 25th. Essential will be offering onsite administration of the Iowa Assessments™ Form E for grades 3-8 only. Students will need to be at the testing site by 8:45am, and parents/guardians should pick up by noon each day. The $50 administration fee covers the costs of securing all the test forms and results, as well as the administration of the test. All students who are tested must be home educated and currently enrolled in a church school (cover school) in the state of Alabama. Why are you not offering the Stanford 10 or the Aspire? The Stanford 10 is no longer current and will be phasing out next year. The Aspire test is not available to our school at this time. We are offering the Iowa Assessments™ and following the test choice of a majority of private Christian schools in Alabama. What is Iowa Assessments™? Iowa Assessments offers timed standard achievement tests with national norms. Click here for a document which shows the areas tested. REGISTER HERE:
Please insure your student's participation is secured by April 15th. Essential will be offering onsite administration of the Iowa Assessments™ Form E for grades 3-8 only. Students will need to be at the testing site by 8:45am, and parents/guardians should pick up by noon each day. The $50 administration fee covers the costs of securing all the test forms and results, as well as the administration of the test. All students who are tested must be home educated and currently enrolled in a church school (cover school) in the state of Alabama. Why are you not offering the Stanford 10 or the Aspire? The Stanford 10 is no longer current and will be phasing out next year. The Aspire test is not available to our school at this time. We are offering the Iowa Assessments™ and following the test choice of a majority of private Christian schools in Alabama. What is Iowa Assessments™? Iowa Assessments offers timed standard achievement tests with national norms. Click here for a document which shows the areas tested. REGISTER HERE:
