MACH Blog

1.  PIZZA orders- We will not be ordering pizza tomorrow, due to the uncertainty of our meeting with the weather forecast.  We need to have our order in today, so it was decided that we will not order this week.  So- pack a lunch, just in case!

2.  Missions Fest Lancaster is holding a missions conference February 18-20, 2011 at Lancaster County Convention Center. Friday February 18th from 12:00 to 2:15 is our field trip program open to grades K-5. Admission is FREE. All students need to bring is a bagged lunch.
The program will take place on the lower level of the Convention Center, Vine Street entrance. The program consists of students eating lunch from 12:00-12:20, touring exhibits at 12:20, and will conclude with a program with Brad and Maxine Waldman and their friends called “The Commission Kid’s Adventure.”
Please pre-register by Friday, February 11, 2011.
To pre-register or for more information, contact Julie Iddings (Event Coordinator) at or by calling 717.509.0938

3.  BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Looking ahead to February, I need to wrap up Box tops for this year.  I need to mail them by mid February.  Please send in all of the box tops that you’ve been collecting at home.  Ask grandparents, relatives and friends if they have any lying around.  Every last one will help us make money for our group.  Please have them trimmed, this saves a lot of time!!  Thanks!  Deb McNece

4.  How Great Thou Art Publications Presents 3 day ART Classes

Barry Stebbings, creator of How Great Thou Art Publications, has been traveling
the United States and Canada for many years teaching beginning drawing and
painting classes to homeschoolers.  It is estimated that he and his wife have
personally instructed over 60,000 homeschoolers in this manner.  The purpose
of this course is to inspire students to do good works, to show them that God
has given each and every one of them the ability to create, and that drawing and
painting are learned disciplines.  The couse includes teaching many of the basic
fundamentals of beginning drawing and painting, an introduction to art appreciation
(studying the great masters), and the new techniques in the use of colored markers
and colored pencils.

3 Day Art Classes at New Covenant Mennonite Fellowship
529 E. Farmersville Road
New Holland, PA  17557
1.   May 24, 25, 26   (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday)
2.   classes are 2 1/2 hr. each day
3.   Classes will include instruction in:
art appreciation
beginning drawing
beginning painting
introduction to colored markers and colored pencils
4.  tuition is $26 per student for the entire 3 days
5.  parents are encouraged to take the class (same price as students)
6.  a parent must take class with 5-6 year olds
7.  classes are  9:00 – 11:30  (morning class)  -  if there is a large number of
students there will be a 1:00 – 3:30   (afternoon class)
8.  All materials will be provided except for colored pencils and colored markers.
Recommended materials will be available for purchase at registration on the
first day at a reasonable price.  You can also bring your own.
*  prismacolor colored pencils
set of 12   $7.50
set of 24   $15  (optional)
*  set of 8 watercolor markers  $4.50
*  each student will need at least a standard of colored pencils and markers

Please register by March 1:   reply
or call Mary Weaver at 717-629-0865
I will need the following information:
parent name
how many attending
would you prefer an afternoon class if there is one?

Please mail payment to:              Mary Weaver
2963 N. Colebrook Road
Manheim, PA  17545

If payment recv’d by March 15,    $26 per student
payments recv’d after March 15   $29 per student

5.  The Secret Garden, the Lancaster Mennonite School winter play will be held  next weekend, Thursday Jan. 27 through Saturday, Jan. 29.  All shows are at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center.

Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance by calling the box office 299-0436, ext. 340.

6.  See you tomorrow!  Please remember to check WGAL.com, WJTL.com, or listen to the radio for cancellations or late openings, following the Manheim Central School District.  Please note that they do not post on wdac radio.  We will monitor school early dismissals while we are there if necessary, and leave early if it seems wise.

1.  Could everyone playing volleyball please bring a volleyball if they have one? Thanks, Bonni

2.  Thanks to everyone who faithfully orders and pays for pizza! If each FAMILY, (not family member, just family), could contribute 25 cents just once for January, and then February, March etc. we will have enough to purchase plates and napkins for that month!

3.  Please pray for the families of the 4 young men from Manheim who were killed on Sunday.  Pray too for the students of the district who knew them.

Attached are the “Elective Guidelines” and “Elective Helper Job Descriptions”.  Please review these carefully.  Copies of these forms will also be kept in the green folder on the front table for you to review as needed.

Elective classes have been assigned to the following rooms (signs will also be posted on the doors).

Welcome Back!  See you all on Wednesday Morning!

1.  Bonni Greiner is offering the third, fifth, and eighth grade achievement tests on Feb. 28th.  The tests are $12.50 each and she has room for eight students for each grade in her home.  There will be a signup sheet on Jan. 5th and 12th, after that she will offer the test to other homeschooled students.

2.  We will be serving pizza on Jan. 5th.  Bonni is assuming that everyone’s standing order is the same, or was corrected on the handout.  If you’d like to order pizza, please call her today before 3:30 PM.

3.  The following electives have a fee for the spring semester. Please come prepared to pay on Wednesday, put the money in the appropriate envelope and mark your child paid.  Thanks! Kim Groff

4.  The elective committee needs your help, as we begin to plan the elective
classes for the 2011/2012 school year.  Please take time to complete the
attached survey and return it to co-op on Wednesday.  We value your input!

MACH Elective Survey 2010-2011

5.  Attached are the revised elective helper schedules for the Spring
semester.  Remember, if you are not able to help on one of your
scheduled days, it is your responsibility to find a replacement.  If you
make a switch, please either notify LaWanda or make the switch on the
master schedule which will be in the green folder on the front table
each week.  Please note on these schedules that there are still some
openings where help is needed.  You will see these marked in red.  The
immediate holes we need filled are for a volleyball helper this week and
next.  Please notify LaWanda as soon as possible, if you would be
willing to take one of these spots.
MACH–VB helper schedule

MACH–Monitor helper schedule

MACH–drama schedule

MACH–Craft helper schedule

MACH–bells helper schedule