Monday, May 4, 2015

LP10!


Wow. LP10 is here. The last month of school. This has been such a wonderful year. Watching your children grow and learn, and being part of your educational choice has been such a privilege for me. Thank you.

A few things to keep in mind as we wrap up the school year:

  • Our next meeting will be the last one of the year. It will also be our report card meeting.
  • Mother's Day is Sunday, May 10.
  • Memorial Day is Monday, May 25.
  • Graduation Day is Wednesday, May 27.
  • Field Trip reimbursement deadline is the last day of school, Friday, May 29.
  • Pre-Ordering deadline is the last day of school, Friday, May 29.
  • Regular ordering begins for TextbookX on July 7. (TextbookX marketplace orders begin August 14).
  • Regular ordering for other vendors and vouchers begins July 10.
  • Visions book sale in on June 18. (Thanks Audre for catching my error!)

Don't forget to check your returnables list. There will be a book drop off day in Jackson at the beginning of June. Time and date to be determined. You can also give books and materials to me at our last meeting and I will return them for you. If you forget to return books or materials, they will just roll over to next year's account at 10% of their current value.

Field Day This Friday

Field Days are a “no fee” event and open to all K-12 Home School students and their immediate family members. Students will compete in a variety of field games supervised by the Visions staff.

While your children are playing, parents/guardians will have an opportunity to network with CTs, administrators and other Visions home school families.

The morning ends with a family barbecue provided and cooked by Visions staff. [Hot dogs (turkey and vegetarian), chips, lemonade and water]

Questions? Contact Nancy Peterson in the Home School Office at 916-971-5518 or email napterson@viedu.org


Where: Detert Park, 560 North Highway 49/88, Jackson
When: Friday, May 8, from 9:30 to 12:30
You will need: to register here and bring a completed permission slip available here.

Flyer

This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 5/4
Ms. Bryon in Carmichael for Professional Development

Tuesday
Plymouth
Jezreel - 11:00
Haley, Madeline, Paige & Riley - 12:15

Wednesday
Camino
Alex - 11:00

Thursday
Ione
Alex & Luke - 12:30
Jasmine & Roxie- 2:35

Friday
Field Day

Monday, April 20, 2015

Vendor Fair

From The Wire...


Monday, May 4th
10am-12pm
Christ Community Church 
5025 Manzanita Ave Carmichael CA, 95608


This year’s Curriculum Vendor Fair is bigger than ever with 34 vendors participating—16 of them brand new to Visions or never before represented at the fair!

We’ve compiled our list of participating vendors and are excited to share them with you below. The fair is your chance to take the guess work out of which curriculum or services to purchase in Fall. You will have the opportunity to learn more about each vendor, browse through their curriculum, check out e-vendor websites, take home brochures/catalogs and goodies, and to speak directly to a company representative or a CT who is familiar with the vendor’s services.

There is no fee to attend and parents are welcomed to bring the kids!

Participating vendors are (companies marked with * indicate new or never represented vendor):
  • ABC Mouse

  • Acorn Naturalists*

  • All About Reading & All About Spelling

  • Blackbird & Company*

  • Book Shark*

  • Brain Pop
  • 
Brave Writer

  • Brighter Child
  • 
Essentials in Writing*
  • 
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers*

  • Gradpoint*

  • Growing with Grammar/Soaring with Spelling/Winning with Writing

  • Highlights*

  • Homeschool Programming

  • Institute for  Excellence in Writing
  • 
Kids Discover*

  • Lakeshore Learning

  • Math U See

  • Mathletics*

  • Moving Beyond the Page*
  • 
Nasco Science*
  • 
Oak Meadow, Inc.*

  • Quality Science Labs

  • Raddish Kids*

  • Right Start Math

  • Royal Fireworks Press*

  • Singapore Math

  • Spelling City

  • Starfall & More Starfall

  • Study Island*

  • Superkids
  • 
Tech Rocket*

  • Time4Learning & Time4Writing

  • Visions In Education Classes

  • Visions In Education Resource Center

  • Zoo-phonics

Testing Update...

Testing begins this week for those of you that are testing at the Rescue site.


Rescue Site
Foothills United Methodist Church
3301 Green Valley Rd.
Rescue, CA 95672


STAR Testing*
April 20, 12:45 p.m.

SABC Testing
April 21, 22 and 23, 12:45 p.m.

(Dianne, Thomas*, Alex)

Please arrive 10 to 15 minutes early for check-in.


Go Thomas, Dianne and Alex! Try to relax and just do your best.


This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 4/20
Office Day

Tuesday
Ione
Gage - 11:00
Daisy & Gracyann - 12:30
Lillian - 12:45

Wednesday
Plymouth
Michael & David - 8:30
Ione
Grace - 11:00
Somerset
Teran - 1:00

Thursday
Pioneer
Wyatt - 12:00
Joseph - 1:00
Emma E. - 2:15

Friday
Office Day

Monday, April 13, 2015

Curriculum Ideas

One of our CTs has compiled a list of common homeschool curriculum by grade. The lists are pretty comprehensive and have information on how to order, if the curriculum meets standards and what you would need to supplement if it doesn't, and notes.

She is updating these lists continuously, so if you have suggestions of items that you think would be helpful to add, please send me an email with the information and I will forward it to her.

Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade

High School is still in Development

I will also place these links on the Homeschool Resources page.

Upcoming...



Monday, April 20 - STAR Testing in Rescue - (5, 7, and 9th Grade Science Test Only)
Tuesday, April 28 - STAR Testing in Jackson - (5, 7, and 9th Grade Science Test Only)
Tuesday April 21 to Thursday April 23 - SBAC Testing in Rescue - (3 -8 and 11th Grades)
Wednesday, April 29 to Friday May 1 - SBAC Testing in Jackson - (3 -8 and 11th Grades)
Friday, May 1st - End of Learning Period 9


Monday, May 4th - Vendor Fair in Carmichael - info
Friday, May 8th - Field Day - info
Sunday, May 10th - Mother's Day
Monday, May 25th - Memorial Day (No School)
Wednesday, May 27th - Graduation Ceremony
Friday, May 29th - Last Day of School
Friday, May 29th - Deadline for pre-ordering



~ June 3rd - 5th - Returnables Drop off in Jackson (Actual date and time to follow)
Saturday???, July 6th - TextbookX ordering begins
Wednesday, July 10th - Voucher, vendor and computer ordering begins
Thursday, June 18th (12 - 3) - End of Year Book Sale - (To be confirmed)

This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 4/13
Office Day

Tuesday
Pine Grove
Emma N. - 1:00
Joy - 2:15
Tristan - 3:30

Wednesday
Jackson Public Library
Emma P. - 11:30
Ana & Baruch - 1:00 - 3:00
Leila - 3:00

Thursday
Placerville 
Marley - 11:00
Thomas, Dianne & Kennedy - 12:15

Friday
Office Day

Monday, April 6, 2015

End of Year Book Sale


Visions holds an end of year book sale, for returning families, to recycle books and curriculum materials. Materials can be purchased (with student funds only) at a discount. One other plus...you can purchase materials from any grade level at this event.

Book Sale: Carmichael, June 18th - More info to follow as it comes.

Returnables


If you have "returnables", there will be a Visions book and materials pick-up day in Jackson sometime between June 3rd and 5th. (Date to come soon.) You can also take them down to Carmichael, mail them to the resource center, or give them to me at our last meeting.

New policy for returning families: If you do not return your returnables, they will be automatically retained after June 5th, (added to next year's account), at 10% of the original value*. No need to fill out the textbook retention forms any more. Yay!


*Any lost book will be charged at original cost.

Latest on Pre-Ordering...

Returning families will be able to "pre-order" April 6 - May 29.


  • Pre-orders will be processed in July
  • Pre-orders will be exempt from the processing fees
  • Pre-ordering is only for curriculum vendors, NOT TextbookX, SkyQ or vouchers. (You will still have to order any curriculum that is available at TextbookX through TextbookX, starting July 6.)
  • You will order the same way you do now, through Launchpad. You will see a new dropdown menu to choose the school year. It should default to 2015, which is the correct year for next year's curriculum orders.


TextbookX ordering begins July 6.
Voucher and Computer ordering begins July 10

This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 4/6
Ms. Bryon in Carmichael for Professional Development

Tuesday
Plymouth
Jezreel - 11:00
Haley, Madeline, Paige & Riley - 12:15

Wednesday
Camino
Alex - 11:00
Jackson - Grace Church
Wyatt - 1:00 - 2:30
Phone
Daisy - 3:00

Thursday
Ione
Alex & Luke - 12:30
Jasmine & Roxie- 2:35

Friday
Office Day

Monday, March 23, 2015

Spring Break Next Week!


Visions will be on Spring Break next week - Monday 3/30 through Friday 4/3.
Have a wonderful time!

Testing Update

I have received the student site assignments for this year's STAR and SBAC testing. Here is the latest information:


Jackson Site
Grace Fellowship
8040 South Highway 49
Jackson, CA 95642


STAR Testing*
April 28, 12:00 p.m.

SABC Testing
April 29, 30 and May 1st, 12:00 p.m.

(Haley, Madeline, Riley, Jasmine, Teran*, Daisy, Lillian, Wyatt*, and Luke)

Rescue Site
Foothills United Methodist Church
3301 Green Valley Rd.
Rescue, CA 95672


STAR Testing*
April 20, 12:45 p.m.

SABC Testing
April 21, 22 and 23, 12:45 p.m.

(Dianne, Thomas*, Alex)


Please let me know if you have any questions! I will post further information as I receive it.

This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 3/23
Ms. Bryon in Teacher Meetings

Tuesday
Ione
Gage - 11:00
Daisy & Gracyann - 12:30
Lillian - 3:00

Wednesday
Plymouth
Michael & David - 8:30
Ione
Grace - 11:00
Somerset
Teran - 1:00

Thursday
Pioneer
Baruch & Ana - 10:30
Wyatt - 12:00
Joseph - 1:00
Emma E. - 2:15

Friday
Office Day
Phone
Emma P. - 10:00


Monday, March 16, 2015

Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Days Cancelled

From The Wire:

It is with much sadness that we have learned that Sierra-at-Tahoe had to close their resort today, March 16th, as a result of no new snow. Our next scheduled Ski Day, Friday, March 27th has also been cancelled.

A big thank you to our CTs, Ty Beekman and Shelby Shupe,  who put in many hours to create these opportunities for our students. For those who participated, I hope you had a great time. Hopefully, we will be back on the slopes next year. All Launchpad orders placed for March 27th will be deleted. If you have prepaid for adult or sibling costs, they will be refunded.

Feedback Survey


Thank you to everyone who submitted the feedback survey last week. I got some great info that I will be using to improve services for next year.

If you didn't get the chance to take the survey yet, please consider it. While it is not mandatory for you, it is mandatory for me to try to get as many replies as possible and to share them with my administrator :) Please know that I am very interested in your thoughts an opinions.

Remember...it is completely anonymous!

You can take the survey here.

Reminder


The last day to order computers or vouchers for this school year is Friday!

Get your voucher orders in by 5 p.m. (I think they will technically take them until 11:59 on Friday, but you don't want to miss the deadline.)

Field trip reimbursement forms can be submitted right up until May 29th.

This Week's Meeting Schedule

Monday 3/16
Office Day

Tuesday
Pine Grove
Emma N. - 1:00
Joy - 2:15

Wednesday
Jackson Public Library
Tristan - 1:00
Emma P. - 2:00
Leila - 3:00

Thursday
Placerville 
Marley - 11:00
Thomas, Dianne & Kennedy - 12:15

Friday
Office Day