To purchase tickets go to www.wildwaves.com , click on Tickets, then click on 2008 Special Events.  Once you are there it will pull up the home school information.  The promo code is home school and the price is $10.99 plus tax.

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Free Resources

Franz Family Bakery Tours

Franz Family Bakeries is pleased to announce that we are offering FREE
tours of our 6th Avenue South Bakery in Seattle.    We are currently booking
tours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays beginning September 5th
and through the school year.   For information or to book a date for a tour,
contact Sue Donohue at 206-682-2244 X 6352 or by e-mail at
DONOHUES@usbakery.com.

This tour makes an excellent field trip or group activity for participants
ages 7 and over and we can accommodate groups as small as 10 or as large as
60 for a scheduled tour.  Larger groups will be split into groups of twenty
for the actual 30 minute walking tour but we have a tour room complete with
learning activities, games, puzzles and art opportunities for the waiting
tour participants.  Total tour time for a group of 60 is approximately 2
hours.

Please keep us in mind when you are planning group activities.  The Franz
bakery tour is one of the few tours of food production facilities in the
Seattle area that is FREE.  Thank you for your attention and we look forward
to hearing from you!

Sue Donohue
Tour Director
Franz Family Bakeries
Seattle Division
(206) 682-2244 X 6352
DONOHUES@usbakery.com

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City of Seattle

SEATTLE PRESENTS - free concerts 1st and 3rd Thursdays at City Hall The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural hosts Seattle's very best musicians in the Seattle Presents free concert series. Past concerts have included the Seattle Symphony, Michael Powers, and world music from Brazil, China, Egypt, Spain, and Bali. Visit http://www.seattle.gov/arts/showcase/seattlepresents.asp

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King County Metro

The following educational resources are available FREE to anyone who can use them to educate folks about water quality, watersheds, salmon, the Sound and how we can protect them. Some of the contact information is not completely current, but all the content is still very timely.

To order any of the resources listed below, email Polly Freeman
(polly.freeman@metrokc.gov) or Valerie Dascil (valerie.dascil@metrokc.gov). Thanks for helping get the word out.

• Home and garden hints for healthy streams and salmon. Detailed brochures for homeowners on all the things you can do around your house -- home and garden, sidewalk and driveway, car care, lot coverage, etc -- to protect water quality.
  
• Video and brochure: Watersheds: H2ope for the future. A 21 minute video on King County's watersheds and why it is important to protect them. Brochure talks about each watershed, the water cycle, and things we can each do to protect watersheds. Great for classrooms.
  
• The Fish Who Could Climb Mountains. This colorful and engaging tabloid-sized handout would be great for middle or high-schoolers and works well for community groups too. Full of information about challenges to salmon throughout their lifecycle and how we can all learn about our watersheds and help salmon.

• Puget Soundbooks. 8 1/2 x 11 format, 45 pages, detailed but with engaging illustrations about maintaining the health of the Sound. Landscaping, lawn care, hazardous waste, recycling, boating practices, wastewater, water conservation -- it's all here and in considerable detail. Lots of what you can do. Great for teachers or high schoolers doing a report. Originally published by the Marine Science Center in Poulsbo.

• Four color posters produced years ago by the now-defunct Businesses for Clean Water program. The bottom of these posters with the contact info would need to be cut off, but the rest of the poster still has a good message if schools or others would like them.
  
  There are three versions with three different nice photos: "This is a fish tank" (photo of beautiful boats on the Sound) "This is its lid" (photo of storm drain) "Any questions?" Other versions are "This is a wildlife sanctuary" (photo of idyllic pond)" This is its gate" (photo of storm drain) "Any questions?" And "This is a swimming pool" (photo of Lake Washington with dock) "This is its filter" (photo of storm drain) "Any questions?" These would measure about 14x17 after the bottom was cut off.

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KCLS Resources for Home Schooling Families

Hello home schooling parents.

With the academic year about to begin, please remember that King County Library System (KCLS) offers a wide range of tools to make use of in your home school curriculum. These tools are free and available to you as a KCLS cardholder from home via our website: http://databases.kcls.org. Choose the appropriate letter from our 'Alphabetical List of Databases' and you'll find:

Foreign language lessons and testing through Rosetta Stone.
- Multiple units in 30 languages: Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Danish, Dutch, English-UK, English-US, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish-Spain, Spanish-Latin America, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh
- Lessons include listening comprehension, reading comprehension, speech practice, and more.
- User guide available in PDF format: http://www.onlinelanguagelearning.com/bin/2000eng_online.pdf. - Individual registration is required, though access is paid for by KCLS.
-Audio and text eBooks through Gale Virtual Reference Library, Learning Express eBooks, KCLS eBooks: OverDrive and KCLS eBooks: Recorded Books.
- Hundreds of reference books straight from our library shelves in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Audio editions of literature classics in KCLS eBooks: Recorded Books and KCLS eBooks: Overdrive.
- PDF editions of education-themed titles for skills improvement and test-taking in Learning Express eBooks.

Academic skills practice and standardized test preparation through Learning Express Library.
- Math practice skills improvement lessons and tests with age range-appropriate labels.
- Writing and reading comprehension skills improvement lessons and tests with age range-appropriate labels.
- Advanced Placement (AP) practice tests.
- SAT and ACT practice units.
- Individual registration is required, though access is paid for by KCLS.

Science experiments, diagrams, and full-text articles through Science Resource Center and Science Online.
- Magazine articles organized by reading level in Science Resource Center.
- Extensive collection of illustrations and maps (labeled 'Multimedia') in Science Resource Center.
- Information on National Science Standards with links to appropriate content in Science Online.
- 3,000+ printable diagrams, illustrating key concepts in all science disciplines in Science Online.
- 600+ experiments, each indexed by grade range and subject in Science Online.

Country and state history and cultural information through CultureGrams, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful and American Indian History & Culture.
- Articles, maps, photographs and charts focusing on continents, countries, and states.
- Teacher's guide (Lands and People) and Teacher's Resources (America the Beautiful) with curriculum integration suggestions.

Literature recommendations and activity suggestions for a wide range of reading interests through Novelist, Literature Resource Center, and Fiction Connection.
- 'Features for Teachers' in Novelist offers articles with curricular connections - most include bibliographies with grade levels.
- Literary criticism in Literature Resource Center.

Full-text articles from thousands of newspapers and magazines through ProQuest, eLibrary, and Infotrac Onefile.
- Perfect for teaching student research skills.
- The 'Full-Text Magazines & Journals In KCLS Databases' search located on the bottom of KCLS database webpages pinpoints the database containing specific newspapers and magazines.

Photographs, illustrations, and maps through Corbis Images for Education, eLibrary, and Oxford Reference Online.
- Historical photos and artwork in Corbis Images for Education.
- Current event photographs and maps in eLibrary.
- Maps & illustrations from the Visual English Dictionary in Oxford Reference Online.

Streaming music through Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound and African American Song.
- Streaming music collections are accessible on your computer
- Ideal for enhancing culture and music-themed units
- Playlists allow you to select songs in advance

Visit your local KCLS library for further information on any of these resources or email your questions directly to me: dwasserman@kcls.org.

Please help spread the word by forwarding this information to your fellow home schooling families. Just remind your friends and neighbors that these resources are free and available to all KCLS library card holders from the comfort of your own home via the KCLS website:
http://databases.kcls.org.
Not a KCLS library card holder? Apply for a KCLS library card or learn more about KCLS reciprocal agreements for non-King County residents via the KCLS website:
http://www.kcls.org/libcards/card.cfm.

Best Regards,
David Wasserman
Electronic Resources Librarian
King County Library System. http://www.kcls.org. (dwasserman@kcls.org). 425.450.1763

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Elegant Gourmet hard candy

Our facility is unique, not only to the West Coast and State of Washington, but to the United States as we are one of only 3 wholesale companies that still manufacture hard candy by hand (just like they did in the 1880's). During the approximately 40-minute tour at Elegant Gourmet in Woodinville, WA, visitors have the chance to see a variety of treats in the making; from cookies and chocolate to nostalgic favorites like old-fashioned spiral lollipops and ribbon candy. No tour is exactly the same!

Tours are offered on Fridays and Saturdays from 10am, by reservation

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Washington State Legislature Senate Republican Caucus Page Program

Homeschooled students are eligible to participate in the paging program with the legislature. Students must be at least 14, and not have reached their 17th birthday. For information, please contact Bonnie Boushele at 360-786-7038 or Boushele.Bonnie@leg.wa.gov, or see their website at http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Administration/PageProgram.