November Meeting Location Change

Due to a previously planned event at the church, our November meeting will be held in an alternate location. We will meet at The Infant & Toddler Connection of Fairfax-Falls Church located at 3750 Old Lee Highway in Fairfax. A map can be found at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/csb/itc/ITC-FFCMap-English.pdf
Hope to see you on November 3rd!

DC Green Festival

We had a great time this weekend at the DC Green Festival. What a great event! For more information, check out: http://www.greenfestivals.org/

Thank you, Stephanie!

We had a GREAT October meeting on homeschooling with almost 50 people present. A huge thank you to Stephanie Elms for her presentation. For more information, visit:

http://www.vahomeschoolers.org/

Stephanie also provided some other great resources:

VaHomeschoolers has a couple of events coming up:
2010 VaHomeschoolers Conference and Resource Fair
March 12-13, 2009 - Glen Allen, Virginia
http://www.vahomeschoolers.org/conference/

Homeschooling and College Entrance Seminar
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Richmond, Virginia
http://www.vahomeschoolers.org/seminars/

For folks who were not able to make it to the talk, here are a few links to start learning about what is required to homeschool in Virginia:
Filing Your Notice of Intent
http://vahomeschoolers.org/noi/filing_NOI.asp

Evaluations and Testing Requirements
http://vahomeschoolers.org/eval/

Finding Local Support
http://vahomeschoolers.org/support/

A couple of recommended email lists:
VirginiaEclecticHS - statewide homeschool email list and great way to start learning about homeschooling from other homeschoolers in Virginia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VAEclecticHS/

NoVaUnschoolers - a Northern Virginia homeschool email list and a great way to start networking and learning about activities and events in the area
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NovaUnschoolers/

A couple of recommended books to start out with:
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start by Linda Dobson

Teach Your Own and Learning All the Time by John Holt (Learning All the Time is a good book on how kids naturally learn, even if you do not plan on homeschooling).