Dear Homeschool Families,

Happy 2023! We’ll begin this year with our typical Homeschool Thursday Drop-In session on January 5^th, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. During this session, stations will focus on telling time (calendars, clocks, timelines, etc.).

Homeschool Thursdays are geared for children in grades K-6, but other ages are welcome. Free parking is available in the St. Eustace Church lot – just leave a note on your dashboard indicating you are at a Homeschool Thursday library event. As always, happy reading!

-Karen and Bambi

Bambi Pedu, Director
librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org
Lake Placid Public Library
2471 Main St.
Lake Placid, NY 12946
(518)523-3200

Homeschool ski program at Mt Van Hoevenberg canceled for tomorrow, 1/4/23. ORDA just emailed to say: “…due to snow conditions we are shutting down the venue for skiing tomorrow so we will not be able to have homeschool skiing tomorrow.”

The Paul Smith’s VIC is open tomorrow, Tuesday Jan 3rd for the first Homeschool Cross-Country Ski and Snowshoe day. They actually have snow, even though it is kind of boney at the moment. There is also a kicksled to play around with, which is fun in all conditions. The building is also open and all the facilities are available for homeschooler use. See the description of the weekly event for more info: https://nch.home.blog/2022/12/01/2023-weekly-homeschool-ski-and-snowshoe-program-at-the-paul-smiths-college-vic/

Snowshoes for rent at 4 public libraries in Essex Co. So awesome!!!!

FREE CROSS-COUNTRY SKI WEEKEND this weekend (12/17-12/18/22) at Cascade Welcome Center in Lake Placid. Come check out all the cool stuff the Adirondack Mountain Club has been doing indoors and outside on the trails! https://adk.org/cascade-welcome-center/

The organizer asked me to remind people that the deadline of this survey is coming up on Jan 15, 2023.

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Let NYNPA know what current events topics you’d be interested in writing a contest essay about at this survey link: https://tinyurl.com/CurrentEventsSurvey2023LawDay

See below for more info and who to contact with questions.

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Please spread the word among the members of the North Country Homeschoolers.

As part of a larger educational project associated with Law Day 2023, the News Media Literacy program of the New York Newspapers Foundation/New York News Publishers Association is surveying middle school and high school students to rank current event topics to assess what is most important to them. The American Bar Association’s Law Day theme for 2023 is Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration.

An essay contest will be created based on the topics most selected. The essay question and rubric will be pushed out through these same channels.  This contest is offering a prize for the top entries. The winning entries would be shared with all member newspapers of the New York News Publishers Association (NYNPA) for those publications to publish in print or online. Additional curriculum materials based on the theme will be created and shared through member newspapers and on the NYNPA website (www.nynpa.com/nie.html).

Here is a link to the Google form we’re using for the survey – https://tinyurl.com/CurrentEventsSurvey2023LawDay  If necessary, you may make a copy of the survey and provide a summary response (Google sheet) for your school/home/class. Please note: We will have no way to access who may wish to enter the follow-up essay contest without names and email addresses.

Deadline for Response: We need all input – summary submissions or individual responses – by the end of the day, Monday, Jan. 15, 2023.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach me via this email or at lawdaynynpa@gmail.com or call 518-265-6201.

Mary Miller (She/Her/Hers) Education Services Director New York Newspapers Foundation/ New York News Publishers Association 252 Hudson Avenue Albany, NY 12210-1802 mmiller@nynpa.com

Phone/Fax: 518-449-1667 ext. 701 Cell/direct: 518-265-6201

To make a donation to support our news media literacy program, go to https://nynf.column.us/news-literacy

Homeschool Dollar Days at the Art Supply Thrift Store at BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake.

First Tuesday of the month, 2-6pm. Everything $1.00

Dec 14, 2022 is the last day to sign up for the Titus homeschool downhill ski program! If you’re interested, please email me at cynthiagorgas@gmail.com. For more info: https://nch.home.blog/2022/11/16/titus-mountain-homeschool-ski-program-jan-feb-2023/

MVH is good to go for Homeschool Skiing this Wednesday 12/14/22. They will also come up with a make-up date for last week’s missed lesson. For more information on the program see: https://nch.home.blog/2022/12/04/mt-van-hoevenberg-home-school-xc-program-2022-23/

ORDA sent their weekly calendar for the first time to North Country Homeschooling and there are tons of fun things on the list below! Here is the weekly ORDA calendar.

The long-awaited Grand Opening of the brand-new Lake Placid Olympic Museum is finally here! The grand opening will take place on Thursday, December 8 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm. It will be a free public day, so please visit and check out all of the extensive renovations and brand-new exhibits. Following Thursday, the museum will now be open daily.

The Lake Placid Holiday Village Stroll is taking place this Friday-Sunday. Lots of events and activities are involved and of note at the Legacy Sites is a free Holiday Skating Party on Friday, December 9 from 5:00-6:30 pm and Santa Sunday on December 11 at Whiteface, which will give a free ticket to those in a full Santa costume.

And finally, this Friday, December 10, and Saturday, December 11 is the IBSF Push World Championships in the Ice House of the Mountain Pass Lodge at Mt Van Hoevenberg. This will entail two full days of exciting competition as top national team athletes from around the world compete for the best starts.

Next week marks the return of the IBSF Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup for the first time since 2019!