Skylands New Jersey Homeschooling Community

Skylands Homeschooling Community (SHC) is a support and activity group for homeschooling families in the New Jersey Skylands area -- Hunterdon, Warren, Morris & Sussex Counties. Our mission is to give our children and ourselves the opportunity to share ideas, friendships and educational activities.

While we do not have a formal meeting time, members meet often for field trips, playgroups, park days, and educational activities.

There are more than 150 families in our group and we correspond through a Yahoo email list. To sign up, visit our Yahoo Groups site. Please contact us if you have questions.

Upcoming activities include:

Thursday, 3/11/10, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Presentation by Thomas Jefferson (YourThomasJefferson.com), Flemington, NJ, $8.50/child (pls email Shannon to sign up for this assembly)
Tuesday, 3/30/10, Intrepid Museum Workshop & Tour, $10.75 per person (pls email Shannon to sign up for this trip)
Friday, 6/4/10, Land of Make Believe group trip (pls email Jill for more information)
Saturday, 4/17/10, 2 -4 pm, Homeschool Talent Show and Art Exhibit at Echo Hill Park (btwn Clinton & Flemington). Bring the whole family! Space is limited, so pls RSVP to Karen to sign up.
Friday, 5/21/10, 1st Annual Skylands Field Day

Other homeschooling groups in our area:

Faith Center for the Arts, a fine arts co-op that meets in Randolph on Tuesdays
FREE Revisted
Frenchtown Park Group, meets at the Frenchtown Park when the weather is nice.
GECHO
Go Learn Homeschool
Homeschool Hangout Meetup Group, an informal group that has field trips and other get-togethers
Madison Homeschoolers
NE-NJ Homeschooling

Web sites, blogs and resources to help you
along your homeschooling journey:

"It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned."
~ Leslie Jeanne Sahler

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
~ William Butler Yeats