Each year the JBSA School Liaison Office host a semi-annual meeting with our homeschool groups on each installation. This allows our office to provide additional training/resources for our families as well as meet/greet with community partners.

 

Our next meetings will be in April and we would love if a member of your team would have a table at each location event. If you choose to just have a staffed table and provide information, we will provide table and chairs.

 

Past attendance has varied and ranged from 10-30 families per location.

 

Dates/Times of Upcoming Event:

JBSA-Randolph: April 18, 2017, 10:00-12:00pm

JBSA-Lackland: April 20, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm

JBSA-Fort Sam Houston: April 21, 2017, 6:00-8:00pm

Actual locations of the meeting and other important details (base entry process if applicable) will be sent closer to the event date.

Please let us know NLT 22 March if you will be participating.

We look forward to working with you!

JBSA School Liaison Office

Lori, Angela, Nita and Keith

Bandera Bowling Center is starting a Home School Bowling Club on June 7, 2017 at 12:00pm. We will meet at noon and begin bowling at 1:00pm. This Club will bowl for 8 weeks on Wednesdays at 1:00pm. On Week 9, we will have a celebration party with awards and a certificate of completion. Participants Ages 8-18, will bowl 2 games each week and have use of rental bowling shoes and house balls for the entire 9 weeks at a total cost of $50. We will go over the basic steps for new bowlers to learn how to bowl and how to keep score.
If anyone is interested, please contact Christy at Bandera Bowling Center (210) 523-1716.

Solving a 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery:

How Lucy Died

with Dr. John Kappelman

Professor of Anthropology and Geological Sciences

Over a 1,000 attendees joined us for Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s

talk in February. Our next Hot Science - Cool Talks event is

free but registration is required.

 

Lucy, a fossil more than 3.2 million years old, is among the oldest,

most complete skeletons of any adult, erect-walking human ancestor.

Dr. Kappelman shares the fascinating story of how one of the

oldest cold cases in the world was solved.

 

Solving a 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery:

How Lucy Died

Friday, March 24, 2017

Community Science Fair - 5:30 - 6:40 p.m.

Talk with Q & A - 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

Welch Hall, UT Campus

 

For more information about the talk, or to register, please visit hotsciencecooltalks.org

Alamo City All-Stars Sportsplex in Universal City offers an affordable, indoor Physical Education program for Homeschool students from ages 5-15. The program meets Texas state requirements and is designed to create a healthy lifestyle for kids as they learn a variety of different sports and activities. Our goal is to have a fun and safe learning environment offering kickball, dodgeball, volleyball, basketball, baseball, soccer, CPR and First Aid. Our coaches possess over 15 years teaching experience. Monthly Membership includes 2 classes per week or 8 sessions per month, 9 AM – 11 AM weekdays: 1 child @ $75, 2 children @ $100, 3 or more children @ $125. Contact Tim Littlefield @ (210) 884-3257 or .

We are preparing an exciting Education Day April 28 during our Celebrate Texas at Fort Martin Scott Days in Fredericksburg this spring. This living-history event offers unique opportunities for students to experience early Texas history.

 

This is a great opportunity for homeschoolers to see the 1850s come to life, as military and civilian re-enactors in period dress share stories of the frontier days and early Fredericksburg. Students will meet soldiers and Texas Rangers, witness our cannon firing and get hands-on experiences in frontier living.

 

The experience is a fun learning trip for all students, particularly for those who have studied or soon will study Texas history. The Friday event is free for school groups, including the accompanying teachers and parents. Home-school groups should identify themselves at the gate.

Please share this invitation with all homeschoolers in your association. We greatly enjoyed having so many homeschoolers last fall. This event starts at 10 a.m. and wraps up around 4 p.m. We have activities going all day so students may come anytime. You may want to arrive about 9:45, allowing time to park and get on the grounds for the opening ceremony with the cannon firing. If afternoon is better, we have another cannon firing tentatively at 2 p.m. and always to close at 4 p.m.

 

Please let us know by March 31 if you will be attending this year. If you have any questions or wish to discuss this further, please call or email me. Once we know some of your students will be coming, we will provide details for the day through an email.

 

We hope to see you there.

 

Mary Lu Abbott

Fort Martin Scott Friends/Vice President

830-307-3154 or

www.ftmartinscott.org

Standardized Achievement
Testing at FEAST
May 1 & May 3, 8:30am - 1pm
$75 per child
Registration deadline is March 17, 2017
FEAST is happy to offer the home school community standardized testing again this year. The state of Texas does not require home schoolers to test their children. FEAST offers this as a service for students in grades 4 - 12. Space is very limited, and registration will be accepted on a first come/first registered basis.

NOTE: No late registrations will be accepted and there are no…click here to read more!
https://homeschoolfeast.com/events/#standard-test