Friday, March 04, 20111

ALEM

SALEM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

ADMINISTRAT0RS

COUNSELORS

5/12/2011

Examine yourselves, to see

whether you are in the faith.

Test yourselves. Or do you not

realize this about yourselves,

that Jesus Christ is in you?—

unless indeed you fail to meet

the test!

2Corinthians 13.5 ESV

CONTENTS

News for Everyone

Thank You

Bible Bee Registration

Poetry Contest

Websites to visit

CHEN Library

High School News

Baltimore .County Police deny homeschool diploma

Girls Soccer

PHC’s Teen Leadership

Carol Kramer –Director

Phyllis Harden – Associate Director Tammy Amato High School Coordinator/ Diplomas / Transcripts / Counselor Angela Bonomo Sandy Grammer – Associate Director Shawn DiPaola Diplomas/High-School Special Needs /Counselor Debbie Haire Ana Rivera Sherri Stimax – Associate Director Special Needs /Counselor

BoxTop$ Rachelle Kreiner HSLDA Shelly Vesely Testing Ana Rivera Event Planning Kim Slone

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Thank you to those who came to the Salem United Methodist Church dinner theatre. The

play, directed by Carol Kramer, earned over $9,000 for the church.

BIBLE BEE REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH MAY 31

It is not too late to register your child for the Bible Bee! This year the local

Bible Bee is being co-sponsored by Perry Hall Baptist Church and Salem

Christian School. This event is not just for homeschoolers, so please invite

your friends and family to sign up. For more information go to

http://www.biblebee.org/_hostcp/index.php?cid=2b6d65b94a2 or e-mail

Kim Slone, our Event Coordinator, mailto:kimaslone@yahoo.com

SEND IN YOUR BALLADS FOR HLDA’S 2011 POETRY CONTEST

2011 Guidelines

Submission Dates: May 1 through June 1 2011!

Entries received before May 1 or postmarked after June 1 will be sent back or discarded.

What

Students must submit a poem in the form of a ballad using one of the two book titles listed in their age category as inspiration for their poem. The book’s contents do not need to be included in the poem; students may simply use the title. Ballads are poems that tell a story, and are considered to be a form of narrative poetry. They are often used in songs and have a very musical quality to them. The core structure for a ballad is a quatrain, (four lines) written in either abcb or abab rhyme schemes. The first and third lines are iambic (metric foot which goes:unstressed/stressed) tetrameter, with eight beats per line; the second and fourth lines are in iambic trimeter, with six beats per line. Your ballad may be 4 to 8 stanzas long, and you may choose either one of the rhyme schemes listed above.

Some example ballads can be found below:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Robert Louis Stevenson: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone

Category 1 (ages 7 to 10 as of May 1, 2011)

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Category 2 (ages 11 to 14 as of May 1, 2011)

Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Category 3 (ages 15 to 19 as of May 1, 2011)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

We try to choose themes that will leave a lot of room for students’ imagination and interpretation, without us dictating the response. Students do not have to actually include the theme title in their poem. The titles are meant to be the inspiration and theme behind whatever images or story the students decide to portray. We hope that students will come up with many imaginative ideas to fit the theme. Our judges love it when a student comes up with something they had not thought of before.

Who

For the purposes of this contest, an eligible student must have been home educated in the past year and received a majority of his or her education in the past year through home education.

Format and Submissions

Poems must be the work of the student entering the contest. No assistance of other parties, including but not limited to editing or proof reading, is permissible.

The poems should be typed, in at least 12 point font, and single spaced with a double space between

stanzas.

Each poem must have a title.

Each author may enter up to five poems. Each poem requires a separate entry fee.

Only one poem per page.

The student’s phone number should appear at the top of each page. NO OTHER from of identification

should appear on these pages.

The poem must be accompanied by an entry form including the student’s full name, date of birth, HSLDA

membership number (where applicable) and contact information, including email and phone number,

should be on a separate sheet of paper.

Poems, entry form, and entry fee must be mailed to:

HSLDA Attn: Poetry Contest

P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, VA 20134-9000

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Entries must be postmarked on or before June 1, 2011. Only entries sent to the above address will qualify

for the contest.

Fee HSLDA Member Discounted Entry Fee $10.00

Regular Entry Fee $15.00 The check should be made payable to “HSLDA” with a note of “Poetry Contest” in the memo line. Please do not enclose cash.

Prizes for Each Category Category 1 2 3

First $100 $150 $200 Second $75 $100 $150

Third $50 $50 $100 Honorable Mentions (2) $25 $25 $50

Judging

Poems will be evaluated by a panel of judges appointed by HSLDA.

Poems will be judged on originality of thought, writing style, and adherence to both the theme and the

traditional requirements of the form.

The decision of the judges is final.

Results of the contest will be released by mid-July 2011.

Other Information

By submitting a poem you:

Grant Home School Legal Defense Association the right to publish all or part of your submission.

Agree to all rules and the decisions of the judges and sponsors.

Home School Legal Defense Association is not responsible for any lost, damaged, misdirected, delayed, mutilated, incomplete, illegible, or postage-due entries or mail. All profits from this contest will go to the Home School Foundation’s Special Needs Children Fund Please contact the Contest Coordinator at contests@hslda.org with any questions. © Site Copyright 1996-2011 Home School Legal Defense Association REPRINTED WITH CONSENT OF HSLDA P.O. Box 3000 · Purcellville, VA 20134-9000 · Phone: (540) 338-5600 · Fax: (540) 338-2733 · E-mail: info@hslda.org

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WEB SITES TO CHECK OUT

BRAIN GAMES FOR KIDS

MEMORY GAMES: To learn new information your brain has to be able to focus and remember. These

games can help!

SENSORY GAMES: These games train the basics behind language, listening, and reading. That can lead to

doing better in school!

http://www.positscience.com/games-teasers/brain-games-kids

INTERNET4CLASSROOMS

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm

A free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high quality, free Internet

resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject

matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials

This is a fun and useful site!

CHEN LIBRARY

The Chen library is located at: Salem United Methodist Church, 7901 Bradshaw Rd, Upper Falls, MD 21156 Borrow for as long as you want. Library accessible 9 am – 12:30 pm Monday-Friday

HIGH-SCHOOL NEWS

Umbrella Diplomas Problematic For Maryland Law Enforcement Jobs

Homeschool graduate James Wickless (name changed to protect his privacy) applied for employment with the Baltimore County Police (BCP). He received a written response explaining that “you do not

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possess a valid diploma recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education.” Because of his family’s membership in Home School Legal Defense Association, he contacted us for help.

HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff traveled to Baltimore to meet with a representative of the BCP. The representative said that James’ diploma was rejected because it was issued by an umbrella program.

After a lengthy conversation, the representative still refused to budge. The door to James’ employment with BCP remained shut.

We are aware that many umbrella programs issue diplomas. In the vast majority of situations—such as getting into college, enlisting in the military or employment (other than with Maryland law enforcement

agencies), an umbrella-issued diploma will serve the intended purpose.

However, if there is any possibility that your student will seek employment with a law enforcement agency in Maryland, an umbrella-issued diploma could create an insurmountable barrier.

FROM HSLDA’S WEEKLY UPDATE 5/10/11

GIRL’S SOCCER 8TH – 12TH GRADES

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT COACH TIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Indoor soccer has just ended but it is already time to register for fall soccer. The Bel Air league of the FCA

(Fellowship of Christian Athletes) team started their fall registration last week.

The fee this year for the FCA rec team will be $85.

There has been MUCH interest in the FCA LADY STRIKERS team from players around the area. This interest has

sparked some new oppurtunities for all of our players. We have formed a FCA SOCCER BOARD to help guide

these new oppurtunities. We will have our SAME rec team this year AND there is a good possibility that FCA may

be able to form a SECOND rec team in the BEL AIR REC LEAGUE. All efforts will be made to keep our origianl team

from last year together.

IN ADDITION, we will be forming a VARSITY FCA LADY STRIKERS TEAM. We plan on playing an 8 game schedule

against private area high schools. We have 4 games already scheduled for the fall. The goal is to transition into a

permanent VARSITY team for the 2012 season. For the 2011 season, players wanting to tryout for the VARSITY

team will be required to play for the rec team in addition to the Varsity team. Although we do not anticipate

turning away any players wanting to play for the Varsity team, we will have tryouts and we will carry no more

than 21 players for the first year.. The team fee for the Varsity team, which includes playing for the rec team,

will be $150. The Varsity team will have their own set of uniforms and some other team apparel.

Some quick guidelines for the two programs being offered:

REC TEAM:

Players can be from any school or home school.

Players up to the age of 19 ARE ELIGIBLE, which includes most girls in their freshmen year of college. .

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Players may be in 8th grade as well. VARSITY TEAM:

Players must be in high school, 9th-12th grade.

Players must be either home schooled or attend a school that DOES NOT offer girls soccer in

the FALL.

Please feel free to forward this letter to other home school co-ops, individual players from schools or home

schoolers.

Questions about practices, games and/or to register, please call Coach Tim 443-324-3914

EMAIL : Hines.Tim@BALT.SYSCO.com

DEADLINES APPROACHING FOR PHC TEEN

LEADERSHIP CAMPS from HSLDA

Enjoy the summer fun of Teen Leadership Camps at Patrick Henry College,

which apply a biblical worldview to the issues of today through exciting

classroom sessions, historic field trips, creative challenges, and camp camaraderie. Camps are being offered in debate, art, music, drama,

leadership, constitutional law and journalism—and much more!

http://www.phc.edu/teen_1.php