Come join us Tuesday, September 19th from 11am to 2pm (possibly later) for the annual MASH Not-Back-To-School Picnic at Assiniboine Park Nature Playground. Bring a lunch, picnic blanket and hangout with us!
**Note: This will replace the MASH-Up Park Meet for that week**
HOMESCHOOL LIASONS: We have invited the Homeschool Liasions to join us and answer any questions the community may have about homeschool notification forms or anything else, BUT they have not confirmed.
MASH CONFERENCE: We will be there to answer any questions about the MASH Conference and help to registered anyone that has not registered yet. Online MASH Conference Registration will close at end of day Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
We have hit our goal for number of participants and almost double it! Thanks for all the support y’all!
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2023 Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Place: Harrow United Address: 955 Mulvey Ave (Winnipeg) Early Registration: Register by August 31st Lunch, snacks, and refreshments will be provided.
REGISTRATION Registration Form CLOSED!! Please register early to ensure adequate spaces are allotted for each table talk and there is enough food for all participants.
PRICE
$20
per participant
early registration
$30
2 participants from same household
early registration
$25
per participant
late registration
$40
2 participants from same household
late registration
PAYMENT To pay, you can etransfer to [email protected] OR make alternate arrangement through Michele Merchant or Tiffany Todosichuk.
LET’S BUILD COMMUNITY TOGETHER A common thread among many homeschoolers is the challenge of finding community. If you cannot find a community where your family thrives, let’s create community together. The central conference goal is to provide a friendly, informal gathering giving opportunities to connect with others while have thoughtful discussions.
THE NEW CONFERENCE FORMAT After much deliberation, the overall conference format is brand new this year. We have put aside the panels and speeches in favor of table talks.
TABLE TALKS The table talks are facilitated small-group discussions of up to six participants along with two facilitators. These discussions are meant to connect homeschoolers having shared experiences with specific topics. The conference strives to create a comfortable environment where these intimate group discussions can really help connect participates with each other and help build a strong foundation for the homeschooling community.
Homeschooling: Finding a Place to Begin
Homeschooling Neurodivergent Children
Homeschooling as a Working Caregiver
Homeschooling the Early Years (start to approximately 12 years old)
Homeschooling the Later Years (teen years to graduation)
Homeschooling Multiple Ages
Homeschooling en Français
Creating Co-ops and Coordinating Events
Talking about Life-Learning/Unschooling
Nurturing Your Homeschooler’s Passions
Homeschooling with Anxiety
Filling Out Homeschooling Forms
High School Record Keeping and Transcripts
Other: give us your suggestions during registration
2023 MASH CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
11:00am – 11:30am
Registration, Refreshments, Find Your Seat at First Table Talk
Homeschooling resources to share – labeled with your name
Homeschooling resources to sell – labeled with your name and the price
Homeschooling resources to give away – labeled with “FREE”
Paper and pen for notes
GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT
Instead of a graduate panel this year, we were hoping to create a graduate spotlight booklet of homeschool graduates to help inspire the rest of us. If you are or know a homeschool graduate, please fill out this form to help us create our Graduate Spotlight.
VENDORS/DONORS The MASH Conference Vendor Hall will be open to the community (whether attending to the conference or not). Please come check out the vendors downstairs in the basement at Harrow United (955 Mulvey Ave, Winnipeg) Saturday, September 23 from 11-4pm.
List of 2023 MASH Conference Vendors:
Dakota Gymnastics Academy
Embodiment Music
Genesis School of Dance
Gibb Academy
Lasertopia
MTYP (Manitoba Theatre for Young People)
My Gym
Pembina Trail Voices
Prairie Badminton
Royal Dance at the Forks
Serratus Movement
Whirling Rainbow Mentorship Circles
YMCA
There will also be used curriculum and resources being sold along with a free curriculum table (feel free to drop off your own).
WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING ANY MORE VENDORS! THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE HOMESCHOOLING COMMUNITY! We invite vendors or donors that would like support the homeschooling community. If you would share your resources in our Vendor Hall or donate door prizes or swag bag gifts, please fill out a form.
If you would like to participate in the vendor hall, rent a table for $50 or provide us with you materials to share at the conference for $25. By participating in the vendor hall, your business will be mentioned in the MASH Facebook Pages, MASH Webpage, and MASH September 2023 emailed newsletter.
At the event, a 6ft table will be provided in our Vendor Hall. We hope you can provide the conference participants with ideas for activities homeschoolers could use in their upcoming school year. Any pamphlets and decorations will be left up the vendor. Set up times will be an hour before the day of the event (Saturday, Sept 23 @ 10:00-11:00AM). If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Conference Co-chairs: Michele Merchant and Tiffany Todosichuk
Back by popular demand, MASH is happy to present MASH Camping Week: Fall Edition. We learned a lot from our first experience this June and we hope to make this September experience even better.
Dates: Sunday, September 10th – Friday, September 15th (Check-in Time: 4:00pm/Check-out Time: 3:00pm) Place: Bird’s Hill Campground (Song Bay, Lark Bay, Vesper Bay) see below for map and information
Come for the the week, a few nights or just for the day!
We are hoping you will join us for MASH Camping Week; a week of beach time, nature walks, crafts, barbecuing, campfires, and fun contests with other homeschooling families. Bring your family, camping gear, and food for a week of activities and fun. Finalized event and activity schedule and call for volunteers will be announced at a later date in August.
(Schedule to be added here at a later date)
MASH Camping Week will be centered around Song Bay campsite #1. For electrical sites ($22.05/night), book Song Bay Lark Bay or Vesper Bay. Below is a map of suggested sites in yellow and where we hope to hold group activities (Song Bay #1) in red.
Each family attending is responsible for their own park vehicle permit and campground fee as well as their food and beverages for the week. Every person under the age of 18 is under the care of their parent(s) or an appointed adult guardian.
If anything else, please contact Mandy.
We are hoping this gives us more time to build connections and create community!
The Harvest Moon Society (HMS) is a volunteer-driven educational charity focused on regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, and environmental stewardship. Operating under the motto “Healthy Land, Healthy Communities”, the organization has spent the past 20+ years transforming the former Clearwater School into the Harvest Moon Learning Center (HMLC) where we offer year-round experiential educational opportunities. The HMLC contains a commercial kitchen, greenhouse, “Secret” Garden, and four dorm rooms among many other features.
On Friday, June 9 we’d like to invite homeschool families to Clearwater, MB for a Harvest Moon Field Trip. Our Education Committee along with our Education Liaison and Land Based Learning Interpreter have planned out a day of programming (10am – 4pm) that includes garden and greenhouse tours, a guided hike on our Lessons from the Land nature trail, and some educational activities centered around native tree species identification and learning about the role of Riparian zones in our prairie ecosystem. The activities will be geared toward students aged 12+, but siblings and parents are welcome to take part as well. There will be a cost of $10 per student or $25 per family. Overnight accommodations can be arranged for RVs/trailers or tents, and we have the dorm rooms available as well (each room has a bunk bed that would sleep two on the bottom and one on the top).
There are two homeschool parents on the HMS Education Committee (Wendy Pearson and Jennifer deGroot) and Wendy has agreed to organize carpooling. Anyone looking to carpool can reach out to Wendy at [email protected].
Registration is limited to about 25 students. To register, or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Other attractions in the area (in case you’d like to make a trip of it) include Spruce Woods Provincial Park (about an hour north), Pembina Valley Provincial Park (about an hour east), Turtle Mountain Provincial Park (about an hour west), as well as the communities of Crystal City and Pilot Mound (10 and 20 minutes east).
We hope to see you in June.
Sincerely, Dustin Mymko Coordinator Harvest Moon Society
Have you ever had questions about the Manitoba Homeschooling Notification forms? Come and meet the Manitoba Homeschooling Liasion Officer!
Thursday, May 25th from 6pm-7:30pm @ St Boniface Library (2nd Floor Meeting Room)
If you are new to homeschooling, these are the forms we use to notify that our child(ren) are homeschooling each year in September (plan), January (progress), and June (completion). The Liasion Officers are the ones that review it for the Manitoba Education Department.
This is the perfect place to ask any questions you might have and hear the tips straight from the source. We hope you will join us!
Come join us Thursday, June 1st from 11am to 2pm (possibly later) for the annual MASH End-of-Year Picnic at Assiniboine Park Nature Playground. Bring a lunch, picnic blanket and hangout with us!
Fridays @ 1:00-2:30pm there will be a meet up at the Forks upstairs lounge area near the elevators.
This is UNparented event, however you remain responsible for your own child(ren). This will is an opportunity for teens to connect at a table away from parents. Bring a board game, book, interest or something to work on! Welcome and we hope to see you there!
Parents and younger children are welcome to join, just at a separate table from the teens!
Join us for ZOOOM at MTYP! Thursday, May 4 from 1pm-1:45pm.
Tickets are $8.50 per person. E-transfer can be made to [email protected] and let me know how many kids you are purchasing for and how many adults (MTYP likes to know the breakdown).
Please arrive on May 4th around 12:45pm for us all to be seated together.
We’re also considering doing the workshop afterwards: A LIGHT IN THE DARK “Students use light, dark, shadow puppetry and sound to create whimsical worlds inspired by the play” Let us know if you’re interested by emailing [email protected]. We will book the workshop for 2pm if there is enough students interested to make a fair individual price point.
Harrow United Church (upstairs gym) 955 Mulvey Avenue (parking available on Mulvey Avenue)
Enjoy indoor play and a chance to interact with other homeschooling families. Some equipment/games and tables will be available, but you are welcome to bring what you’re into: crafts, board games, scooters, LEGOS, etc. We encourage you to make it your own and bring activities to share with the community. Indoor shoes or socks recommended. Feel free to bring a healthy snack to share. Light refreshments will be provided, and you can definitely bring your own. If you’d like a warm drink, feel free to bring a cup and make some tea.
Thursday, April 6th, 2023 from 1-4pm Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 from 1-4pm Tuesday, April, 18st 2023 from 1-4pm Thursday, April 27th, 2023 from 1-4pm
We will switch to our Park Meet after April. First Park Meet date is Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Looking forward to creating some community with you!
***Starting July 4th, Wading Pool is open from 11am – 5:30pm until September 4th.*** Please remember, as always, you are responsible for your own children. Children who are not potty trained should wear some type of swim diaper. Lastly, avoid eating and swimming to ensure the pool stays clean with no food and no upset stomachs. Let’s enjoy our summer y’all!
Come and join us! Starting May 2 @ 10am-3pm No need to sign up or pay until May 30th! Drop in anytime.
MASH Baseball/Soccer/General Park Meet We are going to have a weekly park meet up to keep building community with everyone through the summer. If there are enough children interested, pick up games for baseball and soccer can be facilitated. Other park amenities include play structure, swings, sandbox, wading pool, tennis court, benches and public washrooms.
STARTING Tuesday, May 2, 2023 @TBD (10am – 3pm) and will continue EVERY Tuesday from May 2 to October 31 **except June 13, we will be a MASH Camping Week** Sports will start most likely start in the afternoon.
It is a bit tricky getting there, please see the map.
DIRECTIONS: It is a bit tricky getting there, please see the map attached. Best way to get there is to turn on to Sir John Franklin Rd at Corydon Animal Hospital off of Corydon Ave. The back lane entrance is a bit more tricky. Please park near to the baseball field to free up the parking lot next to the playground for people that would like to play basketball.
MEET US next to play structure, washroom and wading pool. We will have a sign up table setup there. The community center is NOT for MASH, but individuals can use the restrooms. Starting in July, we will be able to use the wading pool restrooms. We have only reserved the baseball and soccer fields. The rest of the park is to be shared with the public.
BRING for yourself a water, lunch, chairs, sports equipment, etc.
BRING lawn games, sport equipment, a snack, etc. to SHARE.
PAYMENT is $20 per child for the WHOLE summer. All children the ages 3 and under will be free. Of the fee, $13.55 will be paid to city for reserving the fields and the rest will be used by MASH for the purchasing of group equipment, first aid, and anything else we will need to host this event. Payments are needed by May 30th to be paid in cash or etransfer to Tiffany Twudosichuk ([email protected]).
VOLUNTEERS are need to help facilitate baseball, soccer, playground and the general meet-up. Most of us will not make it every week. The more people we have that can facilitate, we the more overlap we can have to make sure the event is a success.
