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Village Parkdays 12:00 pm – 4pm (or sundown)Upcoming Events Aug - 6 Topanga Beach Day (boogie boards and sandcastles) July 30 - Summer Parkday July 23 - Leather Stamping July 16 - Ancient Rome July 9 - Japan Past & Present July 2 - Independence & H2O June 25 Beach Day June 18 Tenzi Frenzi June 11 - Juggling Craft and Fun June 4 - Stokes Theater & Plays May 28 - Christina's Family Yogatime May 21 - Bring your crafty projects & Potluck May 14- Career Day May 7 - Mother's Day Tea April 30 - Art Show & Painting Apr 23 - Earthday Show & Tell and Planting Apr16 - 19 Joshua Tree Annual Family Campout Apr 9 - HexiFlexigons - rescheduled Apr 2 - Magic Tricks & Juggling Sticks Mar 26 - HexiFlexigons - Geometry Gone Wild Mar 19 - Potluck & Nat Amer Kid Presentations Mar 12 - Nat Amer 2: Plains & Tipi's Mar 5 - Native American 1: Inuit & Carving Feb 28 - The Art of Debate Feb 19 - Potluck & Chinese New Year & Korean, Vietnamese Feb 12 - Valentyne's Day exchange Feb 5 - Favorite Books Jan 29 - Build an African Kalimba Jan 22 - Patents and Inventors Jan 15 Potluck, Patents and Inventors Jan 8 - Boardgames and Beginnings Jan 1st New Year's Playday Dec 25 Merry Christmas No Parkday Dec 18 Kwanza; Hannukah; Xmas; Solstice Celebration & Lunch Potluck Dec 15 Caroling at Retirement Homes Dec 11 Holiday Craft Day Dec 4 Idioms by Maria Wheee! Nov 27 Happy Thanksgiving No Parkday Nov 20 Venezuela by Enrique & Potluck Nov 13 Science Bloopers Nov 6 Inside a Courtroom Nov 4 Take your Kid to Vote Oct 30 Costume Halloween Party Oct 23 Bring a Poem Oct 19 Campfire Potluck &Talent Show Oct 16 Poetry Play Day & Potluck Oct 9 Save Big Cats & Habitats Oct 2 Making & Launching Rockets Sept 28 Watts Tower Drumming Festival 10-4pm Sept 25 Basket Weaving with NewsPaper Sept 18 M&B Family Campout @ Sequoia Nat'l Park (No parkday) Sept 11 OuterSpace Aeronautics or Sep 10 M&B Free @ LA County Fair Sep 2 Amazing Aeronautics Aug 28 Beach Day Aug 21 Pioneer Day Aug 14 Five Year M&B Anniversary Aug 7 Solar Ovens Part III Jul 31 Solar Ovens Part II Jul 24 Solar Ovens Part I @ Beach Jul 17 Balloon Fun/Physics Jul 10 Blind as a Bat (Braille & Sonar) Jul 3rd (No Parkday Independence) Jun 26 Tal Family Jun 19 Kinetic Ball Run & Squirt bottle motion & Potluck Jun 12 Summer Festival & Games Jun 11 Full Moon Hike Jun 5 Let's Get Tiny - Cells (Animal & Plant) May 29 Lets get tiny - Cells (Animal & Plant) May 22 Famous People May 15 Beach Day & Potluck May 8 Celebrating Mothers May 1 Secrets of Water Apr 24 Earthday & Planting Apr 17 Games & Crafts Bring Your OWN Apr 10 Nat'l Poetry Month Apr 3 Cotton Magic Mar 27 Bacteria Fun Mar 20 Potluck & Organ Day! Mar14-16 Joshua Tree Annual Spring Family Campout Mar 13 - No Theme due to weekend Campout Mar 6- Birdwatching & Nesting Day Feb 27 - Physics of Bowling due to Rain Feb 20 - The Winter Olympics Feb 14-17 Backyard Bird Count Feb 13 - VOLUNTEER PLEASE. Valentines Day Feb 6 - Taxonomy & the Darwin Challenge Jan 30 - Lunar New Year of the Horse Jan 23 - Simple Machines II - Pulleys & Levers Jan 16 - Habitats & Keystone Species & Noon Potluck Jan 9 - Cogs & Cams: Simple Machines Jan 2 - Reconnecting after holidays & New Year's Celebrations Dec 26 - No Parkday Happy Holidays Dec 19 - Celebrate Holidays: Winter Solstice, Kwanza, Christmas & Hanukkah Dec 12 - Solar Fun & Mask Making with Michelle Dec 5 - Monarch Magic & Eucalyptus Nov 28 - Happy Thanksgiving - No Parkday Nov 23 - Fieldtrip to Monarch Groves in Goleta Nov 21 - Monarchs & Eucalyptus Trees postponed Nov 14 - Atoms, Protons, Electrons, Oh My! Nov 7 - Autumn Leaves & Sewing with Heather Oct 31 - Halloween Festival Oct 24 - Spooky SeeSaw Algebra Oct 17 - 3 City Geography & Int'l Potluck & 6:00pm Talent Show Oct 10 - 2nd M&B Bug Faire Oct 3 - Abacus Math Magic Sept 26 - Bark Painting & Spirit Animals Sep 19-23 Annual Sequoia Family Campout Sep 14 Fieldtrip to Point Vicente Sep 12 - Lighthouses & Prisms II Sep 5 - Build Splash Toys @ Pool Aug 29 - Lighthouses & Light I Aug 22 - DeSalination @ Beach PD Aug 15 - Weaving yarn or old clothes Aug 8 - Hula Hoop II Aug 1 - Hula Hoop I @ Beach A Jul 25 - M&B's 4th Anniversary Jul 18 - Hawaii Day & Potluck Jul 11 - Bubble Science Fun July 4 No Parkday HOLIDAY Jun 27 No Parkday HOLIDAY Jun 20 - Crafts Free for All Jun 13 - Gold Mining & BoomTowns Jun 6 - Anyone? Or Lemonade Stands May 31-Jun 2 Family Campout at Montano De Oro May 30 - MayDay PlayDay II May 23 - MayDay PlayDay May 16 - Bats, Owl Pellets & Potluck May 9 - Primitive Arts & Indian Trading Blanket May 2 - Painting & Poems Apr 25- Help Our Wildlife Thrive Apr 18 - M&B Earthday & Potluck 5pm Apr 11 - Missouri Day / Bees Part 2 Apr 4 - Bees ($3/kid for candlemaking) Mar 28 - Feathers, Microscopes & Origami Cranes Mar 21 - History of Sugar; Plant own sugarcane Mar 14 - Robots & Circuitry $3/kid Mar 7 - Rainy Day @ Skirball Free Feb 28 - Felting & Fiber Arts Feb 21 - Morocco II Feb 14 Valentines & Asian New Year Traditions Feb 7 - Huichol Yarn Paintings Jan 31 - Birth of a Nation Jan 24 - Cancelled Jan 17 - Craft parkday Jan 15 - USA Tour @ Skirball Jan 10- Morocco Senses & Allah Jan 3 - Free for All Playday Dec 27 - Free For All Playday Dec 20 - Xmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Divali & Winter Solstice (Carols & Potluck) Dec 13 - Morocco, Art & Mint Tea Dec 6 - Pompeii Part II & Archeology Nov 29 - Let's BOWL Nov 22 - Thanksgiving - No Parkday Nov 15 - Duct Tape Crafts & creations by C & C Nov 8 - Ancient Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius Nov 1 - Election & Voting Debate: Oct 25 - Trunk or Treat; Dress-up Oct 18 - Peace Building & Oct 11 - Superhero Rain Oct 4 - Inks from Nature Sep 27 Ireland Fun & Culture Sep 20 -Sequoia-sized Boardgames Sep 13 - 3rd Sequoia Campout Sep 6- Heroes and Heroines - Kids Presentations Aug 30 - Simile, Metaphors & Figures of Speech Aug 23- Letterboxing II Aug 16 - Letterboxing I Aug 9 - Beach Day Aug 2 - Modern Olympics II July 26 - Ancient Olympics I July 19 - Paper Arts: Bowls, Books & Beads July 12 - Beach Day July 5 - Statue of Liberty - 4th July June 28 - Storytelling & Aussie Rainsticks June 21 - Fun Games Field day June 14 - Mystery Math = Algebra Fun June 7- Silly Summer Day Fun May 31 - Build Miniature Golf May 24 - Sewing & Haiku Part II May 17 - Haikus & Drums & Evening Potluck May 10 - Rock Hunter Guest Speakers May 3 - May Day Celebrations Apr 26 - Fibonacci & Nature Apr 19 - Thai New Year -Songkran & Potluck April 12 - Spring Bling & Night Crawlers Planting season April 5- Easter /Passover Crafts Mar 29 - Ethics & Fairytales Mar 22 - Detective Fingerprints & Crafts Mar 15 - Prep for Joshua Tree Mar 8 - Marbles & Physics Mar 1 - Make Real Dream Catchers Feb 23 - Pirates, Sea Captains &Tall Ships Feb 16 - Wilderness Survival - guest Speaker Feb 9 - Anatomy Guts vs Feeling Guts Feb 2- Gravity Fun Games Jan 26 - Cement Bridges Part Two Jan 19 - Kids first Rock & Gem Show Jan 12 - Global New Years Celebration Jan 5 - Rockets-Aquarius M&B helped launch Dec 29 - Cement Construction hand print tile Dec 22- Kwanza, Hannukah, Bodhi Day stories & games 12/8 Dec 15 - Amy's Anatomy Obstacle Course Dec 8 - Painting so it POPS! w/ out wind Dec 1 - Painting so it POPS! Nov 24 - Happy Thanksgiving - No M&B Parkday Nov 17 - Fun with Manners & Empowering Etiquette & And 3rd Thurs Potluck (lunchtime)! Nov 10 - History of Photography - Make Pinhole Cameras Nov 3 - Butterfly & Bug Faire & Poems & Riddles Oct 27 - Pumpkin Festival *Dress UP!! Oct 20 - Empathy & Empowerment Oct 13 - Braille & Visually Impaired Oct 6- Atoms & Cool Molecules Sept 29- Black Bears & Sequoias Sept 22 - Sequoia Fires & Cones Sept 15- Clay Creatures & Open-ended ?s Sept 8- Beat the Heat Beach Day Sept 1 - Lemonade Stand Commerce Aug 25 - Back to Homeschool Play Aug 18 - Saw Safely & make a Jacob's Ladder Aug 11 - Biomes, Habitats & Soda Bottle Terrarium Aug 4 - M&B 2Year Anniversary Party July 28 - Finger Knitting & Natural Fibers July 21 - Stone Soup Potluck & Storytime July 14 - CrazyFun ScienceLab Experiments July 7 - Independence Day Celebration @ Zuma Beach June 30 - Nocturnal Creatures & Owl Pellets to dissect June 23 - Book Exchange Circus June 16 - Lewis & Clark, Quill pens from feathers & Potluck June 9 ATC- Making Artists' Trading Cards June 2 Petraglyphs, Pictoglyphs & Rafting the Grand Canyon May 26 Historical May 19 Pharoahs, Pyramids & Crafts May 12 May 5 Apr 28 Apr 21 Apr 14 Apr 7 Mar 31 Mar 24 Mar 17 Mar 10 Mar 3 Feb 24 Feb 3 Jan 27 Jan 20 Jan 13 Jan 6 Dec 31 Dec 23 Dec 16 Dec 9 Dec 2 Nov 25th Nov 18th Nov 11th Nov 4th Oct 28th Oct 21st Oct 14th Oct 7th Sept 30th Sept 23rd Sept 17 Sept 9th Sept 2nd August 26th Aug 19 August 12 August 5th July 29th July 22 July 15th June 17th June 10th June 3rd May 27th May 20th May 13 May 6th April 29 April 22 April 15th April 8th April 1st March 25 March 18th March 11th March 4th |
In my seven years in SoCal, I have been on several whale tours from Oxnard, Ventura and Redondo Beach, but nothing came close to the magical day my girls and I had with Dolphin Safari Adventure out of Dana Point. On our 2 1/2 hour excursion, we saw three types of whales and three varieties [...] I am constantly in pursuit of real-life heroes and heroines of many eras that match my daughters’ personalities and passions. In my house, we prefer picture books to spark our interests in history. In this past week alone, my girls discovered kinship with figures of our past by reading these great picture books about Elinor [...] This week a group of us experienced an amazing EcoVision realized at One Gun Ranch in Malibu. The list of eco-friendly, planet-happy initiatives like composting toilets are wonderfully long. We gained a holistic sense of farming by biodynamic ideals which draw from both the modern and the ancient, like balancing the alkaline of [...] |
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