The Learning Village Homeschool Resource Center

Just a heads up that The Learning Village is still here and we are gearing up to get some new activities going this month and next…

Things seem to be changing this month now that school children are going back to school and many homeschoolers are gearing up for a new year of their own “school” (those that follow a similar schedule as the public schools…many of us just keep going all year, of course.)

So it seems a good time to also gear up TLV for some new things and a sort of relaunch.

To kick things off, we will be having a fundraiser this coming Friday from 6-8pm at The Discovery Center property at 1937 N. Winery. We’re hosting a family game night with “Simply Fun”, a company that sells all sorts of games. Find out all about it at our event webpage here. You may have to create an account to view the info. Feel free to just come on by during the hours of the party to come meet us and join in the fun! You may even find some games you’d like to purchase for your family!

Something that has changed at TLV is that we are no longer renting the classroom space at The Discovery Center monthly, but have gone to an hour rate. We will only use the space as needed for activities. We found that we were not using it enough yet to warrant paying to have it for the full month. This will save us some money and also give us the better flexibility to hold activities at other locations if we so desire.

You can still reach me (Tina), as president, on my cell phone at any time at 260-6564 if you have any questions.

More info as I have it!! Stay tuned!

For more information on our “Simply Fun” FUNdraiser party, check out this link. And please pass this link along to others that might be interested in joining us!

With the change in temperature comes changes to all our schedules…as TLV has noticed a marked decrease in attendance to all activities in the recent months, we are going to be revamping our activities.

Its now too hot to do the bird walks unless we all want to get up at the crack of dawn (which I doubt many of us would be interested in, LOL!)…and group games are no longer going to work outside. We are working on an idea to have an indoor group games to get out of the heat, if there is an interest. Stay tuned for news on that.

Also in the works is a “Parents’ Night Out”. This is being worked on currently and hopefully will be a montly activity starting in July, if all goes well.

New activities and classes are also in the works…As always, if you have any suggestions or requests, please let me know by emailing me at president(at)fresnolearningvillage(dot) and we’ll see what we can do.

Stay tuned for more information to come!

Check out TLV’s photo site at http://thelearningvillage.shutterfly.com for updated pictures. I just added pics from yesterday’s Meyer’s Farms field trip:

as well as pics from today’s KMPH Weather Class:

If you have photos to add, please join the photo site and post! The more, the merrier!

We have been having a lot of fun at all the great TLV activities lately! Another recent activity was a tour of the Savemart Center:

I hope more families will spread the word and join us! We are now 9 families strong and have quite a few families that are nonmembers that join us for activities as well! Nonmembers are invited to most of our activities, for $5 nonmember fee. Specific info is available on our events calendar. Just click “Events Calendar” in the sidebar of our website at www.fresnolearningvillage.com.

We now have activities going on every month, including:
Art Lab-1st Thursday of every month
Group Games-2nd Thursday of every month
Origami Club-3rd Wednesday of every month
Bird Walk-4th Tuesday of every month

We are also working on a group discount for a monthly skate day…A monthly nature trip, a monthly charity/work project, 1-3 educational (and FUN) field trips every month, and more ideas are coming to us all the time!

We are always open to new ideas, so please feel free to let us know what YOU would like to see happen!

And, as always, SPREAD THE WORD! The Learning Village exists for our members…so we need members to exist! Please share the link to our website and tell all your local homeschool (and non-homeschool as well! We are available for all!) friends about us!

I put the calendar back to the way it was before, since the events were actually viewable that way (embedded on a page on our site)…but I still don’t like the way it looks, so I am going to keep looking for a better way to do it.

But for now, you should be able to read the events again. Let me know if for some reason it doesn’t work for you. president(at)fresnolearningvillage.com

I seem to have screwed up the Google calendar when I changed the way it shows on our website. Its still on Google, but the link to it isn’t working properly. I’m on my way out the door, but I promise to get it fixed as soon as I get back home and can get working on it. Stay tuned! For those that are interested…This week we have Art Lab on Thursday! I’ll get the calendar back up tonight so you can see the details.

Just added a Twitter feed and a Facebook fan page button to TLV’s homepage. Already on the homepage are links to TLV’s magazine fundraiser site (this is an ongoing fundraiser, please check it out), shutterfly photo site and yahoogroup. As we attain more links to share, you will find them there on the homepage for easy access. Please subscribe to all that are relevant to you, as we are trying to maintain regular updates on all our exciting new happenings!

For getting us set up so that our WordPress website now posts to our Facebook page!

Yay! HUGS to Gary!!

We are adding new classes and field trips pretty regularly now to our new Google Calendar. Just click on the link in the left sidebar that says “Events Calendar” to check it out!

Hope you like the new look! I was working on improving the system and decided to completely overhaul and switch to something new. I think this template fits our name better too!

With this new system, you don’t have the option to register an account, so if you want to have TLV news emailed to you, please join our yahoogroup here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hsrcfresno