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!

Well the New Year is upon us and we are gearing up for BIG THINGS at TLV!

First of all, after placing a listing on Fresno’s Craigslist, I’ve received a lot of interest in freelance educators offering classes at TLV!

I am right now in the process of sorting through all these offers and setting up trial classes to give them a shot at educating our kids. These are all aimed at being enrichment classes that will help supplement what we are already doing at home with our children.

I am taking ideas from parents that are interested in seeing certain classes/activities happen, so please feel free to email me at president(at)fresnolearningvillage(dot)com if you have any suggestions. And join us on our discussion egroup to talk about your ideas and thoughts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hsrcfresno Membership to that egroup is open to anyone wanting to learn more about TLV and contribute ideas.

So very soon we will have some wonderful new classes to offer at TLV!

We also have field trips that we are starting to put on the calendar, including at least 2 already for February! So stay tuned!

We already got back our paperwork from the IRS and are now officially OFFICIALLY a 501(c)(3) nonprofit! We got our final papers!

Very exciting to have us completely official now!!

The Learning Village now has members! We are so grateful for those of you that signed up during our recent Open Houses. Of course we are still accepting new members, this is only the beginning!!

Stay tuned for excited new things happening at The Learning Village!

Please call Tina at 260-6564 if you have any questions or would like to join!

The past 2 days we’ve been spending a lot of time working on the lending library. Regina, our librarian, has worked out a system and has purchased our needed supplies and has been busily organizing, stamping, recording, etc etc…And the donations are still coming in! Please call me (Tina) at 260-6564 if you are interested in donating items to our educational resource lending library. A wish list is posted on this site and can be reached by clicking on the link in the main menu to the left. This list’s purpose is to give you some ideas on the sorts of things we are looking for. But we will gladly take things not on the list as well. Anything we decide we don’t need will be donated to GoodWill.

There is already a very good start to our lending library and we are so very thankful for all your generous contributions! Keep them coming!

The Learning Village Board has just decided on our days/hours:

Tues/Wed/Thursdays from 1-5pm.

These will not start immediately, as we are still sorting through our lending library donations and haven’t gotten everything together yet to be ready to officially open. Things are taking longer than anticipated, but we are still moving forward steadily.

On Thursday of this week we held our first official board meeting for The Learning Village. We were able to cover a lot of ground, as we go through our paperwork and finalize things and tweak as needed. We still have a long ways to go, but we did such a fabulous job on Thursday, we’re off to a wonderful start!

We’re very excited about how things are going and look forward to accomplishing more!

Well it’s been slow moving, but things are happening! We have submitted our “Articles of Incorporation”, so we are officially a corporation…next we have our 1023 to make us a tax exempt nonprofit. That will be done soon, hopefully…I’m slowly working my way through the complicated paperwork

We are also in the process of getting our officers all lined up. We already have a bookkeeper figured out and the president…but still need a treasurer and secretary.