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Cinderella
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| Join Cinderella and her step-mother for a fun look at this fairy
tale. The story is told by a mouse, but the audience gets to help by
playing parts in the show. Fun for children of all ages.
Price - $6 for adults and children |
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| Time: Saturday the 10th of February at 1:30pm |
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| Place: Heritage Square Music Hall, 18301 W. Colfax Ave,
Golden. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Shannon Mahan 674-5763 or
see the HSMH
website. Call 279-7800 for reservations |
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The Dinosaur Play
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From the moment they enter the theater, children are transported
millions and millions of years back into the age of dinosaurs. In front
of them is a lone dinosaur egg tapping out a call for help. The children
interpret what the egg is saying and help to hatch the egg. They make a
pact with a surely Triceratops, protect the newly formed dinosaur family
and defeat the dangerous Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's a powerful tale about
making friends and forming families.
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| Time: Friday the 23rd February at 12:00pm |
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| Place: The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Shannon Mahan 674-5763 or
see the Arvada Center Website.
Purchase Tickets for this show here. |
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| The Forney museum must be one of Denver's most underrated museums,
yet it's an absolute goldmine of transportation history and technology.
To spice things up a little (even though the fascinating contents of
this museum don't need any spicing up), we will have an optional
'treasure hunt' in the museum. Rideshare available, please join us. |
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| Time: Friday the 26th of January at 10:00am |
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| Place: Forney Transportation Museum,
4303 Brighton Blvd. (right next to the Denver Coliseum, just off I-25) Denver. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Matt or see the
Forney Museum website |
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Burrowing Beasties
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Please join us for one of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National
Wildlife Refuge's nature programs - Burrowing Beasties.
The refuge is home to an abundance of ground-burrowing animals. Learn
some interesting facts about these tunnel digging critters and then hit
the trail in search of them.
These programs are free, but a reservation is required. If you are
interesting in participating in this program, please contact
Shannon and she will make
the reservations. |
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| Time: Saturday the 3rd of March from 1pm until 3pm |
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| Place: RMANWR, Commerce City.
Map |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Shannon or see the
RMANWR Website |
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Learn about the
Iditarod
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Lisa Pettitt has kindly arranged a visit to learn all about the
Iditarod which has been called 'The last great race on Earth'. A team of
12 to 16 sled dogs and their musher race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome
on the western Bering Sea coast, a total of 1150 miles. Find out more
about this incredible race and the dogs used to pull the sled.
Since Lisa needs to provide a head count in advance,
RSVP by Wednesday the 21st of February. |
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| Time: Saturday the 24th of February from 2pm until 4pm |
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| Place: Kathy and Mike, who are hosting this field trip/class
live on Fall River Road Rd., just past Idaho Springs. Carpooling is
available/encouraged. |
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Additional Information: Contact
Lisa for more information.
Also, check out the following websites:
http://www.iditarod.com/ and
http://www.iditarod.com/teachers and
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/ and
http://www.jriditarod.com/
Lisa also provided a book list:
1. The Iditarod: Story of the Last
Great Race by Ian Young (J 798.8309798 Young)
2. Storm Run: The Story of the 1st Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog
Race by Libby Riddles (J B Riddles)
3. The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Miller (E
798.8309798 Miller)
4. Gary Paulsen by Elizabeth Paterra (J B Paulsen)
5. Dashing through the Snow: The Story of the Junior Iditarod by Sherry
Shahan (J 798.8 Shahan)
6. Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod by Robert Blake (E Fiction Blake)
7. Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail by Ellen Dolan (J 798.8 Dolan)
8. Iditarod Dream: Dusty and his Sled Dogs Compete in Alaska's Jr.
Iditarod by Ted Wood (J 798.8 Wood)
9. Racing the Iditarod Trail by Ruth Crisman (J 798.8 Crisman) |
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Chemistry Class
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Starting the new year with a substantial science course, this is a long
series of chemistry classes with a heavy emphasis on hands-on
experimentation. Once some of the basic prerequisites have been covered,
every biweekly class will involve a brief explanatory lecture followed
by one or more experiments.
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This is a serious chemistry class, folks. As good as or better than a
high-school chemistry course. For safety reasons, I must insist on the
highest levels of discipline in the classes and the students must be
fully committed to this class; 'Homework' and pre- or post-class reading
will be assigned for each class.
As usual, I will not set a lower age-limit for this class. If a student
is fully committed, I'm glad to have them participate. Having said that,
I doubt that anyone under the age of six will really benefit from this
course.
Given the safety issues involved here, I must ask for help from
student's parents in keeping the younger kids (including my two) amused
and away from the equipment.
Safety goggles and any other necessary safely equipment will be issued
to students. I can only accommodate a maximum of five or six students in
the class, so please contact me soon if you are interested in this
course. Bad behavior won't be tolerated, failure to complete home
assignments and reading will not be tolerated. I'm sorry to be so strict
about these issues, but this course involves a lot of preparation and a
big commitment on my part and I insist that I get the same commitment
from the students.
The first few classes will lay the foundations for the following
experiments and will cover chemistry basics (solid, liquid, gas,
element, compound, mixture etc.), atomic structure and the periodic
table. Then we will continue to investigate elements and their compounds
period by period. The investigation of these elements and compounds will
be experiment-intensive. Many of the experiments will be conducted by
the students and in the process, they will learn experimental procedure
and results reporting procedures. Some of the more dangerous experiments
will be conducted as demonstrations with appropriate safety measures
employed. The whole course will run until the end of the school year
(June or so).
I would like to stress again that this is a serious chemistry course. I
don't want to frighten students away who are interested in chemistry,
but I do want to make it clear that this is a significant commitment on
both our parts. Please contact me if you have questions or concerns. |
Times:
Monday the 8th of January at 10:00am
Monday the 22nd of January at 10:00am
Monday the 5th of February at 10:00am
Monday the 19th of February at 10:00am |
CLASS FULL!
01/05/07. There are already 10 students enrolled in this class.
Thanks for your support MAHS members. |
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Place: Matt’s house. |
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Additional Information: Contact
Matt 674-5763 |
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Entomology Class - Diptera (Flies)
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| The first in a short series of classes covering the anatomy,
lifestyles, habitat, and other interesting facts about insects. The
order diptera (flies) is the focus of this class. |
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| Time: Monday the 12th of February at 10:00am |
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| Place: Matt’s house. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Matt 674-5763 |
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Chess Classes for All Abilities
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| Learn to play chess, or improve your game, all ability levels will
be accommodated in these classes. Each class will involve specific
tutoring appropriate to the participants’ abilities plus lots of
opportunity to put new-found skills to use in fun drills and mini-games.
Basic rules, basic maneuvers, basic principles, intermediate maneuvers,
openings, famous players and championship games will all be covered
(depending on ability level, of course). |
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| Time: Monday the 15th of January at 10:00am |
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| Place: Matt’s house. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Matt 674-5763 |
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Spanish Classes
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Lucy Benson continues to provide the Spanish classes for a wide
variety of ages and abilities. The classes are held every Tuesday at the
Evergreen Library.
There is a fee of $10 per class per child (families with more than two
kids will just pay for 2 kids) and the schedule is as follows;
Class times (3 separate age/ability groups) are from 10am until 1pm,
every Tuesday. |
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| Place: Evergreen Library |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Lucy Benson
670-2079 |
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Martial Arts Classes
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| Evergreen Martial Arts Academy offers a daytime Tae Kwon Do classes
for the convenience of homeschool families, every Wednesday from noon
until 1:30pm and Saturday from 11am until 12:30pm. Also, Tai Chi Chuan,
Aikido, Jujitsu and Judo programs have recently been established. For
more information, visit the
EMAA website.
A substantial discount is still offered to MAHS members for most of
the programs and there are numerous additional discounts for multiple
family members and multiple program participation.. There’s no
obligation for the first two classes, so give them a try! |
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| Time: Daytime Tae Kwon Do classes are still every Wednesday
from 12:00 pm until 1:30 pm and Saturday morning 11:00 am until 12:30
pm. For other class times, please visit the
EMAA website. |
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| Place: Evergreen Martial Arts Academy, 28677 Buffalo Park
Road (about half way between Evergreen library and Evergreen High
School)
Map |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Matt 674-5763 or
EMAA
679-0181 |
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Games Day
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| All board and table-top games are welcome, all ages welcome. If it’s
a nice day, perhaps we could sit outside and play games in the sun. |
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| Time: Friday the 2nd of February at 10:00 am. |
Postponed until Friday the 16th
of February. |
| Place: Lisa’s house. |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Lisa
Pettitt |
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Girl's Night Out
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| Romancing the Stage - A Very Special Evening of One-Acts at Center
Stage Brilliant Traces
As an Alaskan snowstorm rages outside, there is a desperate knocking on
Henry Harry's cabin door. In bursts a beautiful woman, dressed in
nothing but her sweat-stained bridal gown.
Five Nickels
Meet Ed Maloney, middle-aged, single and shy. He's a Catholic usher and,
on this particular Sunday, he is confronted by Catherine Barber, a
50-something widow who, after weeks and weeks of holding back, has
finally determined to confront this lifelong bachelor
Brilliant Traces and Five Nickels, for the price of one! Each show is
approximately one hour long, with an intermission.
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| Time: Saturday the 20th of January at 7:30pm |
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| Place: Evergreen’s Center Stage |
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| Additional Information: Contact
Shannon Mahan 674-5763 or
see the Evergreen Players
website. |
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DMNS Children's Workshops
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Shannon Mahan intends to sign one of her sons up for one of the
following workshops at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science;
Dandy Dinosaurs (ages 4 & 5)
The dinosaurs are back!
Experience the world of sauropods and carnosaurs. Try using “belly
buster” gizzard stones to grind plants. Touch a fossil cast of a T.rex
tooth. Learn about our state fossil, Stegosaurus, and role-play the life
of a dinosaur.
Saturday, February 10th, 1:00–3:00 pm.
$20 member, $25 nonmenber.
Paws and Jaws (ages 4 & 5)
Examine and touch many different
animal faces and feet, from a wolf nose and turtle toes to a horse jaw
and bear paw! How are they different? How are they the same? Why do they
look the way they do? Compare your foot to an elephant’s and your teeth
to a tiger’s! Create a fanciful animal mask to take home.
Saturday, March 3rd, 10:00am–Noon.
$20 member, $25 nonmenber.
If anyone is interested in one of these workshops, Shannon is
willing to provide transportation there and back. Just enroll your kid(s)
and arrange an appropriate place for pickup and drop-off with Shannon.
What could be easier? |
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Cosmic Collisions
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| Opening February 2nd at the DMNS
Planetarium. At first glance,
the night sky appears calm and peaceful. But travel beyond your line of
vision deep into space and the reality is altogether
different. Brilliant planetary impacts and wondrous celestial fireworks
are commonplace.
Narrated by Robert Redford, Cosmic
Collisions reveals the explosive encounters that shaped our solar
system, changed the course of life on Earth, and continue to transform
our galaxy and universe today. Images from space and visualizations
based on cutting-edge scientific data showcase catastrophic planetary
meetings, the merging of massive galaxies, and the continual explosions
that occur in the center of the Sun.
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| Time: As soon as show times are announced. |
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January
February
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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
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Games day at Lisa's house at 10am |
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Chemistry class at Matt's house at 10am |
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Spanish classes |
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TKD at Noon |
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'Cinderella' at HSMH at 1:30pm |
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Entomology class at Matt's house at 10am |
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Spanish classes
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TKD at Noon |
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Chemistry class at Matt's house at 10am |
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Spanish classes
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TKD at Noon |
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'Dino. Play' at the Arvada Center at 12pm |
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TKD at Noon |
1st March |
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'Burrowing Beasties' at RMANWR at 1:00pm |
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