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Julia took this tour with a home school group seven years ago and it was FABULOUS. The adults were just as interested as the kids. Her then-preschooler still remembers parts of the tour. A nice variety of architecture is presented and discussed. (Age restrictions are now very much enforced. Sorry to get your hopes up.)
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Greetings, everyone. Thank you for reading this really long blog post. Cathy and I need help getting a good idea off the ground. We think it’s worthwhile. —– JULIA
Cathy and I would like to develop a monthly career day type of program for ages 12 and up. The program would have a speaker talk to the kids about the post-high school education necessary for the career and what great things and challenges jobs in that field might entail. We’ve talked about having speakers for: dental hygienist, medical doctor, nurse, graphic designer, comic strip artist/cartoonist, information systems technician, architect, and veterinarian. We are very flexible about which careers are booked. This programming will be free, but we cannot manage it ourselves. I’d like you to consider volunteering for us for either an entire school year’s worth of career days (9 events total) or shorter commitments (even one-time commitments!) if we can get enough hostesses. To make career day work, the following jobs must be done:
1, Create an event once a month. This can be done by one of the Three Sisters, or by you (you get to choose the career!). Creating the event means you contact a speaker, and set up a location and time for the event (usually the speaker’s workplace or a library meeting room). Give this information to Julia to put in the monthly newsletter.
2. Take RSVP’s, send confirmations and a specific address (for security, we do not typically reveal exact addresses until a family commits to attending the event), create attendance list for event. This can be done with a Three Sisters email address or your personal email address.
3. Hostess the event – greet speaker and inform him/her about expected number in audience, take attendance, greet attendees.
4. Thank everyone for coming and introduce the speaker if mutually desired.
5. Thank everyone for attending.
Cathy and I cannot take on jobs 3 – 5 and are very willing to give jobs 1 and 2 to someone if mutually practical. Three Sisters will give the following support: HLR signs for use with street directions, promotion through a monthly newsletter, promotion through a blog, and use of Three Sisters email address (to avoid your personal information being distributed).
Three Sisters has booked two sessions of Escape School. The goal is to show every family how to be smart, not scared, and to arm children and their parents with abduction-prevention tips and tactics. (See the Escape School website here.) We have not seen a similar program offered by local police departments. This is our “stranger danger” class of choice.
Conducted free of charge by a trained Dignity Memorial® associate, the program teaches children how to differentiate between good and bad strangers, the common lures abductors use, how to “get away, right away,” and how to find help when needed. In addition to teaching key concepts in an entertaining and non-threatening manner, presenters enlist the aid of children from the audience to demonstrate several simple yet highly effective techniques for escaping dangerous situations. Recommended ages 5 – 10 years old. Parents will need to stay with kids. If there are younger siblings present, we’d like you to try and stay in the room as a family; the library is available if younger kids need to leave with a parent. After the one-hour class is over, you may retrieve your older kids.
Registration is open now via email for the following classes:
Monday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. OR Tuesday, Sept. 21 from 4 – 5 p.m.
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Send email to see3sis@yahoo.com, indicate which day you want, and how many people (adults and kids) you are registering. Do not leave a comment as your RSVP. You will receive a confirmation email. This class is full. There is no fee, but we ask that you keep your commitment as we anticipate a waiting list. Limit of 40 people.
Rocket balloons, stomp rockets, and compressed air rockets — who wouldn’t love to launch all three? Three Sisters is currently in negotiations to book an Oct. 2010 workshop for 30 people. No age limits for this program. You can take home your rockets, too.
If you want to see more of Josh of The Amazing Chemistry Show, or have to miss his Sept. 13 show, keep your eyes on this blog for chemistry program developments.
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