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

Click here for ideas and activities:

National Fire Prevention Association

Here in our home town, this week has new meaning.  3 area girls were killed in a house fire.  2 managed to escape.

ABC News Video

FoxNews

Times Herald Record

Don’t let the tragedy of this incident go unnoticed.  Please share these stories with your children.  Please pray for the Dorritie and Fahey families.

As the Fire Safety Teacher here at LEAP, I can’t stress enough the importance of making sure your smoke detectors are working.  Practice fire escape routes with your children; know 2 exits from each room.  Have fire extinguishers handy and teach your kids how to use them.  My heart breaks for this mom.  Don’t be a statistic.

Here are just a few events for you to participate in:

Oct 3 & 4 – This Weekend – Millbrook Days, Millbrook, NJ (Family Event)

Oct 8 – Burger Bash -Burger King in Port Jervis (Group 4H Fundraising)

Oct 12 – Apple and Pumpkin Picking –  Och Orchard (Group/Family Event)

Oct 16 4H Achievement Night Chester  (4H Group Event)

Oct 17 or Nov 14.  Reality Tour – 1st Presbyterian, Milford.  (Group/Family Event)

Many October events at Liberty Science Center

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

Nov. 7  Smorgasbord – 4H Project Leader Trainings.  Middletown  (Group/Family Event)

Nov 10 – Easter Seals Gift Wrapping Jewish Temple  (Group Community Service)

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

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

The season of Thanksgiving and Christmas will soon be upon us. 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.

Homeschooler Discount at Lancaster’s Sight & Sound!

Sight & Sound in Lancaster is offering the following promotion to students and educators – groups smaller than 14:  Good for a Tuesday – Friday show.

Sight and Sound Website

In The Beginning: now thru October 17, 2009, $10 per ticket, mention code: ITB9HM

Abraham and Sarah: now thru Sept. 19 , 2009. $10 per ticket, mention code : AS9HM

Call Sight & Sound to order: 800-377- 1277

Click here for brochure

LEAP Families – email Lisa if interested so we can coordinate a date.

Can you say “field trip” anyone?  Check out the link:

http://www.crayola.com/factory/programs_workshops.cfm

Calendar of Events 2009-10 has been updated with the “Saints” 4-H Business Meetings and Parties for the year.  If you have a LEAP student in 3rd grade and up, please join us on these days and come see what 4H is all about.

These meetings double as both 4H Meetings and LEAP Student Council meetings.

This is a chance for the students to have a voice in our little neck of the woods.  Students will learn parliamentary procedures such as making a motion, having a motion on the floor, voting, running for office, elections and so much more.  Students also choose annual community service projects and field trips.

So, “Saints”, come on out to our monthly meetings and get involved.