[AlwaysLearning] Roots and Shoots was Off To Celebrate A Great Weekend!
Nanci Kuykendall
>I'm taking my homeschool Roots & Shoots club on aHey Heather, could you tell me what you know about
>caving trip tomorrow morning. Well, I should say I'm
>going along, but we've got a caving enthusiast who is
>actually leading the trip.
>heather m
Roots and Shoots? I am really interested in their
program and contemplating trying to get a group
together locally.
When I looked into it before I did not see a way to
get a hold of a handbook, or anything like that, to
really look into what they were like. I ruled out
Campfire due to certain policies in their handbook
which are pro-school and pro-child training and
politics. There are no local groups available for my
boys of any kind, (except a certain paramilitary
organization which is everywhere) and so whatever we
decide to get behind, if anything, I want to make sure
their policies and our beliefs don't collide head on.
The less politics and indoctrination the better.
Nanci K.
Norma
--- In [email protected], Nanci Kuykendall
<aisliin@y...> wrote:
Norma, here. Back from our great weekend adventure under the stars
and the beautiful total lunar eclipse. We just had the Jane Goodall
exhibit at our Museum Center so we had recently learned all about
Roots and Shoots. Here is the web site with all the information:
http://www.janegoodall.org/rs/
It is pretty basic, not much indoctrination at all. There are a
bunch of links at the bottom of the web page on how to start
something in your area.
Another great organization to get behind is The Heifer Project. If
you aren't familiar with them check them out at:
http://www.heifer.org
Lots of learning potential with this organization. Kids love to find
out about the animals, even visit farms where they can learn more.
One year we visited a great high-tech dairy goat farm as part of our
involvement in The Heifer Project, buying some dairy goats for a
family. Then another year we visited a dairy farm that had different
animals and happened into one barn just at the moment when a doe was
kidding, two kids! Wow! Our homeschoolers watched every last moment
of it all. Great biology lesson. Another year when we were buying
sheep we had volunteers from the local Weavers Guild come and talk to
us about sheep, bringing samples of sheep's milk and sheep's cheese,
as well as fleece for us to card and spin from a drop spindle.
Neat! The bees could be interesting, too, visiting an apiary, but we
haven't done that yet.
And then there are the Spiral Scouts. I am not much into
organizations that require uniforms, and Spiral Scouts do, so we
declined this one, but it certainly is not paramilitary, by any
stretch of the imagination. To learn more go to:
http://www.aquatabch.org/spiralscouts/
Last, but not least, is 4-H. You can usually start your own club
with only two kids. And whether or not your kids go to the fairs or
participate in the countywide activities is up to you and them. Up
to a point it is good. In some parts of the country it is better
than others. But 4-H even has college scholarships and a exchange
programs with other countries, too. We loved creating our own self-
determined projects, as much as any of the ones offered in our state
project catalog. For info for your area check out:
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/
Norma
<aisliin@y...> wrote:
> >I'm taking my homeschool Roots & Shoots club on aNanci:
> >caving trip tomorrow morning. Well, I should say I'm
> >going along, but we've got a caving enthusiast who is
> >actually leading the trip.
> >heather m
>
> Hey Heather, could you tell me what you know about
> Roots and Shoots? I am really interested in their
> program and contemplating trying to get a group
> together locally.
Norma, here. Back from our great weekend adventure under the stars
and the beautiful total lunar eclipse. We just had the Jane Goodall
exhibit at our Museum Center so we had recently learned all about
Roots and Shoots. Here is the web site with all the information:
http://www.janegoodall.org/rs/
It is pretty basic, not much indoctrination at all. There are a
bunch of links at the bottom of the web page on how to start
something in your area.
Another great organization to get behind is The Heifer Project. If
you aren't familiar with them check them out at:
http://www.heifer.org
Lots of learning potential with this organization. Kids love to find
out about the animals, even visit farms where they can learn more.
One year we visited a great high-tech dairy goat farm as part of our
involvement in The Heifer Project, buying some dairy goats for a
family. Then another year we visited a dairy farm that had different
animals and happened into one barn just at the moment when a doe was
kidding, two kids! Wow! Our homeschoolers watched every last moment
of it all. Great biology lesson. Another year when we were buying
sheep we had volunteers from the local Weavers Guild come and talk to
us about sheep, bringing samples of sheep's milk and sheep's cheese,
as well as fleece for us to card and spin from a drop spindle.
Neat! The bees could be interesting, too, visiting an apiary, but we
haven't done that yet.
And then there are the Spiral Scouts. I am not much into
organizations that require uniforms, and Spiral Scouts do, so we
declined this one, but it certainly is not paramilitary, by any
stretch of the imagination. To learn more go to:
http://www.aquatabch.org/spiralscouts/
Last, but not least, is 4-H. You can usually start your own club
with only two kids. And whether or not your kids go to the fairs or
participate in the countywide activities is up to you and them. Up
to a point it is good. In some parts of the country it is better
than others. But 4-H even has college scholarships and a exchange
programs with other countries, too. We loved creating our own self-
determined projects, as much as any of the ones offered in our state
project catalog. For info for your area check out:
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/
Norma
[email protected]
In a message dated 11/9/2003 8:05:08 PM Central Standard Time,
athomeopathy@... writes:
Last, but not least, is 4-H.
~~~
Yeah, and the other things on the list were great. But I can't imagine what
anyone found in Camp Fire that was "indoctrinating". I've found Camp Fire to
be very flexible and easy to tailor to a particular mindset or objective.
Tolerant and diverse. No one's breathing down your neck to make sure you're
doing it "right". The first part of the Camp Fire law is "Worship God", but I
know many clubs just leave it out. Camp Fire has been around for a very long
time. It has a lot to offer.
Tuck
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athomeopathy@... writes:
Last, but not least, is 4-H.
~~~
Yeah, and the other things on the list were great. But I can't imagine what
anyone found in Camp Fire that was "indoctrinating". I've found Camp Fire to
be very flexible and easy to tailor to a particular mindset or objective.
Tolerant and diverse. No one's breathing down your neck to make sure you're
doing it "right". The first part of the Camp Fire law is "Worship God", but I
know many clubs just leave it out. Camp Fire has been around for a very long
time. It has a lot to offer.
Tuck
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