LEAP just keeps growing with all these little ones.   Congratulations to Ivy and Nate on the birth of your little girl.

December 4 – Last Alternate Day Schedule of Classes

December 10 – 4H Business Meeting & Christmas Party

December 15 -  Community Service Event (Serving Lunch to Prime Timers as First Assembly of God)

Have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.  Classes resume on January 29.  Also, don’t forget the January Hands on Science Fair on January 23.

As President, on October 3, 1789, George Washington made the following proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are almost here.  What better way for your family to give to the needy then to put together a shoe box for child. Don’t know what Operation Christmas Child is all about? Well, please click on the link below and let Franklin Graham (Rev. Billy Graham’s son) tell you about it.

Our host church, First Assembly of God, is one of many National drop off centers. They will be collecting boxes from November 16 thru November 22.  Please plan on bringing a box or two or three… with you when you come for Competition Night on the 22nd.  The Honor Bound Motor Cycle club will just be finishing up packing up crates of boxes to be shipped all over the world.

Many families have each child do a box. The website has a list of appropriate gifts and ones that are not allow. Please review the list. There are also labels that you can print off the website or they are available in the foyer of First Assembly of God.  Don’t forget to add a personalized note from your family and a photo.  Many families do hear back from the grateful child, it is very exciting to see where your box will end up.

It is almost that time again.  Our first semester is almost over and we will be accepting new members for the second semester.  This semester begins the end of January and runs through the 1st week of May.

Please visit Join us or Contact us on the left hand side bar or on the top bar for more information.  We like to have you contact us by December 1 and get the ball rolling, you then have until January 1 to get all the paper work in.

We look forward to adding your family to our homeschool family.  We have so many moms that are willing to share their God given talents and enhance our homeschool experience.

I would like to add a comment about this.  I have been blessed by moms who taught my daughter Spanish and guitar, they have taught sewing and old fashion fabric dyeing.  They have done dissecting projects and chemistry labs.  I am so blessed by all these moms and have been able to share my love of woodworking, love of books and music.

Why not consider joining us this year.

Disney Homschool Days Site

They say the whole month of January is Homeschool month, but specific programs are January 24, 25, and 26.

Now that would be a fun field trip.

Hey, the mouse likes us!

America the Beautiful

Words by Katharine Lee Bates, Melody by Samuel Ward

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

For those poor unsocialized homeschoolers (Do you get it yet?)

Oct 30 – LEAP Alternate Day

Oct 30 – Tricky Tray – Huguenot Fire House 4:30 p.m. to benefit the Dorritie family

Oct 31 – Harvest Fun Night - Sponsored by host church 1st Assembly of God out at TSCC Port Jervis (Free)

Nov  3 -  Election Day Soup & Sandwich Luncheon – 1st Presbyterian, Milford (Group Community Service)

Nov  6 – LEAP Regular Day

Nov  7 – Smorgasbord – 4H Project Leader Trainings (Clover Leaf pg 6), Middletown  (Group/Family Event)

Nov 10 – Easter Seals Gift Wrapping Jewish Temple Beth el, Port Jervis (Group Community Service)

Nov 11 – Farm Gleaning in the Pine Island Area – helping local food banks and some for yourself

Nov 13 – LEAP Alternate Day

Nov 16 – Nov 21 Operation Christmas Child Christmas Boxes Due drop off 1st Assembly of God (Family Event)

Nov 20 – LEAP Regular Day

Nov 21 – Competition Day – National Spelling Bee, National Geography Bee, Speed Cup Stacking, Fellowship Dinner

Nov 30 -  Reality Tour – 1st Presbyterian, Milford.   (Watch video at website and register early – sells out quickly)

Dec  1  – Deadline to Register for Spring Semester

Dec  4 -  LEAP Alternate Day

Dec 10 – Saints 4H and LEAP Student Council Christmas Party, 1st Assembly of God

Dec 15 – Prime Timers Christmas Luncheon Serving – 1st Assembly of God (Group Community Service)

Whew, when are we ever home.  Interested in some of these events, email leaphomeschool@gmail.com and I will give you more information.

Be sure that you and your children practice the words to our National Anthem for this Friday’s opening announcements time.  Here is a video of the song:  Click Here

The Star Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

October 8 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Come eat dinner at Burger King in Port Jervis, NY
Tell them “I support 4H” and we get a portion of cost to help our 4H club