Carolina Home Educators Family Support

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Carolina Home Educators
Family Support

Our Purpose

* To provide support and encouragement to families choosing to home educate their children.
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* To provide educational & social opportunities for homeschooled children.
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* To favorably represent home education within our community.

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All homeschooling families from Cheraw, Chesterfield, Bennettsville, Rockingham, Hamlet, Wadesboro, and the surrounding areas are invited to join Carolina Home Educators Family Support (CHEFS). We are a local support group providing educational opportunities & support for homeschooling families in our area.

Membership applications for the 2010-2011 school year are available on our website. Membership dues are $15 per family for the 2010-2011 school year.

For more information about homeschooling and CHEFS please contact :
Anne Fyans (910) 991-6055
Chrisynda Samuel (843) 537-9463
or email us at admin@chefsgroup.org.

Connecting homeschooling families in
Chesterfield, Marlboro, Anson, and Richmond counties of NC and SC.

All homeschooling families are welcome.
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Ovis Hill Farm

Homeschool Day

Ovis Hill Farm is a local sheep farm located in Timmonsville, SC. We have approximately 500 sheep. All tours focus on the importance of farms in our society, and the process of converting raw wool into usable fabrics. While at the farm, students will have an opportunity to feed baby lambs, make butter, and take a wagon ride. The wagon ride visits all the animals on the farm stopping for a sheep-herding demonstration with the farm Border collie. We will also have a special treat available for your viewing that day. The shearer will be shearing sheep that Friday and Saturday barring any unforeseen farming problems. You will be amazed at the speed and skill demonstrated.

When: Friday, May 28, 2010

Time: 10:00 am to 12:00pm

Cost: $6.00 per person up to $24 per family to be paid at the farm the day of your trip. We accept cash, debit or credit cards.

Optional Activities: Gourd painting $5 per person

Wool bracelet making $1 per person

You must pre-register for these optional activities to be conducted at the end of the tour.

We have a covered picnic shelter if you desire to bring a picnic lunch. We will not have any other lunch food to sell. The farm has a store where we sell product from our farm as well as other local South Carolina farmers.

To register contact: Heather Perry

Ovishillfarm@aol.com

You can visit our web site at ovishillfarm.com for directions.

Homeschoolers Invited on Celebration Cruise

The Graham family would like to invite fellow homeschooling families to join them in May for a Celebration Cruise. They are celebrating not only the graduation of their son Jonathan, but homeschooling at large. What a wonderful way of life! This cruise is open to all homeschoolers, their friends, and family. Feel free to invite everyone to join on this celebration cruise.

Phillip & Wendy Graham have homeschooled their children from birth. They have also been very active in the homeschool community at large.

Wendy has worked with several different homeschool cooperatives and support groups while homeschooling. In addition she has been board member and is now the new director of CHASE SC (Christian Homeschoolers Association of South Eastern South Carolina.) Phillip, a veterinarian, loves to teach. He allows students interested in veterinary medicine to “shadow” at the clinic. He also hosts field trips to the clinic for all students to see a part of veterinary medicine they may not get to see.

For graduation, their oldest son, Jonathan asked if they could book a cruise this May to celebrate this major accomplishment. Since homeschooling is such an integral part of their lives, the Graham family decided it only made sense to book a group cruise and invite all homeschoolers to celebrate their homeschool year as well!

They plan to cruise on Carnival Fantasy from Charleston to the Bahamas May 30 to June 5, 2009. The ship will visit Nassau, Freeport, and Key West. On the ship there will be all kinds of food, plus miniature golf, swimming pools, waterworks fun park with a water-slide, Camp Carnival for children, Circle C and Club O₂for teens, an adults-only retreat and much more.

There is only a $25 per person deposit required to hold a place. A second payment of $250 is due December 29 and the final payment is due March 9. All money is 100% refundable through March 8.

Travel arrangements will be made through GloriousTravels.net , a travel company started by the Graham family as a way to have fun and earn a little money on the side.

For more information, you can email GloriousTravels@gmail.com or call (843) 879-8785. They will gladly call you back if this is a long distance charge or include your phone number in an email. And remember, they are still home educating their children so you may have to leave a message.

	CHEFS Sidewalk Chalk Artists Participate in SC Jazz Festival by Admin User - Thursday, 22 October 2009, 09:16 PM
	Our blossoming artists did a tremendous job on Saturday, October 17th as they braved the nippy weather and showed off their talents in the SC Jazz Festival in Cheraw. Team CHEFS made an impressing showing in their first sidewalk drawing contest. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this such a wonderful time.

We are thrilled to announce that homeschool parents of 8 and authors, Steve & Teri Maxwell (www.Titus2.com) are coming to Harmony Church in Sumter, South Carolina for a homeschool family conference!

The date is September 24th. Please see the attached flyers for full conference information and session topics and also Monday, October 5th from 7-9:30pm at Winter Park Baptist Church in Wilmington, NC.

There will be sessions available for the whole family. There is no charge for the conference.

To attend SC, please contact Michelle Morehouse (tmorehouse@ftc-i.net or 803-478-6404, home, or 803-225-5037, cell) or Trina Mask (Thereisgrace2@aol.com or 803-452-6111).

To attend NC, please contact Holly Yandle (hollyyandle@hotmail.com) or Alaine Hofland (a.hofland@earthlink.net).

You may also contact the Maxwells (info@Titus2.com or 913.909.9776).

Please pass this information along to other homeschool families who may be interested in attending.

It is very helpful to us if you can pre-register.

Students are back in class at Southern Wesleyan University, and we’d like to extend an invitation for your high school students and their families to visit our campus. College visits can be extremely helpful as decisions are made regarding which university to attend.

Fall Preview Days offer the opportunity to speak with key faculty and staff members (including representatives from Athletics, Financial Aid, Residence Life, Student Activities, Admissions, and Student Government), gain valuable information from a panel discussion, tour campus, compete for prizes, and eat lunch in the Dining Commons.

Fall Preview Day

9 am – 12:30 pm

Friday, September 18, 2009

(school excuses provided)

Saturday, October 17, 2009.

Don’t miss this opportunity to visit campus and prepare for your college experience!

Melissa Vess

Assistant Director of Admissions

Southern Wesleyan University

mvess@swu.edu

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