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A
Look Back at 2005
Highlights
of 2005
A
trip down memory lane, or an opportunity to catch up on events
and info you may have missed the first time around:
In 2005, we enjoyed connecting with a cross section of Massachusetts
homeschoolers in a variety of ways:
• Home Education Day at the State House
in April, including a family contra
dance and side trips to The Concord Museum, the National Heritage
Museum, and the Paul Revere House.
• Field trips to the DeCordova Museum in January;
the New Bedford Whaling Museum in March; the Museum of Science
in Boston in May and October; the Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary
in September; and Hancock Shaker Village in September.
Throughout
the year, we reported on a variety of issues important to Massachusetts
homeschoolers:
•
National Merit® Scholarship Program
• Handling It Ourselves
• Privacy, the Military,
and Your Education Plan
• Legislation
We
were pleased to be able to offer:
•
New web pages on Making the Decision
and Getting Started Homeschooling: A Walkthrough; Recommended
Books, including books about homeschooling and books featuring
homeschoolers; Beyond Homeschooling:
College, Alternatives to College, Grown up Homeschoolers; Libraries
and Homeschoolers: Especially for Librarians.
• AHEM membership cards
• AHEM trifolds, with info on
homeschooling in Massachusetts - perfect for handing out at gatherings
or leaving at your local library
•
Not-Back-to-School events
listing
We
were pleased to be able to announce:
•
501(c)(3) Charitable Status Approved
• Virtual Volunteering Opportunities
at AHEM
Ongoing
efforts include:
•
Legislative watch
• The Library Mailing Project, mailing brochures with
info on homeschooling in MA along with an easy way for them to
reorder, to 350+ Massachusetts libraries
• Policy & Practice Database
about homeschooling in Massachusetts
• Communicating with our
Friends (find archived newsletters at http://www.ahem.info/Newsletters.htm)
• Support group listings
(36 statewide now listed; do you know of any in Nantucket or Dukes
counties?)
• Events page
• County Contacts, available
for phone or email help anytime.
Thank
you
As
we bid goodbye to 2005, we want to be sure to thank all of you
for your support over the past year, whether it came in the form
of reading our emails or newsletter, filling out the questionnaire,
joining us on a field trip, attending Home Education Day at the
State House, handing out a trifold brochure, accessing Amazon.com
through AHEM, or sending us a cash donation. Any level of interest
and participation is greatly appreciated and is what fuels our
efforts.
We look
forward to meeting more of you in 2006, and continuing to grow
the number of informed and active homeschoolers in Massachusetts.
We always appreciate feedback on how we are doing and ideas about
how we can serve you better.
Looking
ahead to 2006
•
AHEM as featured speaker at South Shore Home Learners January
meeting
• AHEM
social in May
• State House visits and
field trips to Peabody Essex Museum, Black Heritage Trail, and
more
A
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