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Daily Schedule: is subject to change without notice.
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See "Presenters" page for further description of each talk.
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See below for further description of the Main Events.
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For Funshop listings and description, go to our "Funshop" page.
Monday
6:00 - 8:00 Registation, Sign-in, T-shirt pick-ups & 50/50 Raffle
6:00 - 9:00 Carnival - plenty of games, food, entertainment & more!
6:00 - 7:30 Fairy Godparents Sign-ups
8:00 - 9:00 Fairy Godparents drawing of names
8:45 50 / 50 Raffle drawing of winners
9:30 - ? SSUDS - gathering of menfolk in the Kuhunaville bar
Tuesday - Thursday Regisitration
NOTE - Registration & t-Shirt pick-ups after Monday, will be 4-8pm Tues - Wed in the atrium area of our conference rooms. Other times will be Self Sign-in Registration, with welcome packets available at our registration table anytime throughout the Gathering.
Tuesday
10:30 - 11:45 Ruth Radney "Go with the Flow"
1:00 - 2:15 Kathy Joyce "Preparing College Transcripts and scholarships"
2:30 - 3:45 Ana Grandt-Herzberger "Unschooling High/Special Needs"
4:00 - 5:15 Kelly Lovejoy "Radical Unschooling. It's More than Academics"
6:00 - 7:30 T. J. Phillips - SSUD's Discussion/Roundtable
6:00 - 7:30 Scavenger Hunt
8:00 - 10:00 Talent Show
10:00 -11:00 Teen & Young Adult Panel / Open Forum Q & A
Wednesday
10:30 - 11:45 Kelly Lovejoy "Morning Chat with Kelly / Ask Kelly Anything"
11:45 - 1:00 Lisa Stroyan & Amy Makice- host a LIVE Podcast featuring
Ruth Radney, with audience & call-in participation on Unschooling
1:00 - 2:15 Bethany Hagensen "Raw Foods Demo / Discussion"
2:30 - 3:45 Sydney Forsythe "Transitioning from Public School to Unschooling"
4:00 - 5:15 Jessie Voigts "Parents with Disabilities Unschooling our Children"
6:00 - 8:00 Talent show
8:15 -10:00 Movie: Kung Fu Panda ("G" rated family movie )
10:00 - 12:15 Movie: Batman, The Dark Knight ( rated PG-13 )
Thusrday
10:30 - 11:45 Lisa Stroyan "Exploring Empathic Parenting"
1:00 - 2:15 Laura Riesenberg & Barbara Herzberger "Unschooling a Large Family"
2:30 - 3:45 Debbie Baxter "How to start, Grow & Manage a Homeschool Co op"
4:00 - 5:15 Jody Hagensen "When Life Hands you Lemons, Make Lemonade"
5:30 - 6:45 Debra Bures, Barbara Herzberger & Mary Nix "Redefining Education"
8:00 - midnt Medieval Ballroom Dance
MONDAY EVENING
Registration
Organized by Silvia Barrett
6 pm – 8:00 pm
Attendees will be given nametags and welcome packets that include a detailed schedule of the times and locations of all the Funshops, Discussions and Events. Those who ordered t-shirts can also pick them up at this time.
NOTE - Registration and t-shirt pick-ups on other days will be 4pm - 8pm nightly in the atrium area of our conference rooms. Other times will be self sign-in registration with welcome packets available at our registration table anytime throughout the Gathering.
Winter Carnival
Organized by Dennis Wolf
6 pm – 9pm
Entrance charges
Children are Free!
Adults $2
Game Tickets: 10 tickets for $1
( all game and activity booths are 1 ticket)
Concession Food
The Kalahari will be offering concession food to include Pizza ( can call ahead or use phones outside our conferene room to have pizza delivered to the carnival & get $4 off lg pizza), hotdogs, sandwiches, salads, popcorn, chips, fruit, drinks, including beer and wine will also be available to purchase.
Plus, we'll also have Aidan and Collin's cotton candy carnival booth - only 50 cents!
We’ll kick-off this year’s UWWG with an amazing Winter Carnival! There will be lots of carnival games of luck and skill, face painting, stage for ongoing comical / musical acts and even a dunking tank!
There will also be food concessions that includes pizza, hotdogs, hamburgers, popcorn, cotton candy, etc.. along with drinks, available to purchase. Guaranteed to be fun for all and hopefully a great way to meet and mingle with others!
For prizes, please bring a bag(s) of stuffed animals, small trinkets and/or toys that your children have outgrown or just don't play with anymore. The donation of these for our prize table, will greatly help our UWWG, along with helping families clean out their clutter!
Also, LOTS of volunteers are needed to make this event work. We need volunteers to help with setting-up, manning the 25 or so game & ticket booths and clean-up. If you, your teen, or any member of your family can help, PLEASE go to our Carnival Database and Sign-up at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UWWG/database
or contact Dennis at: wolfdw1968@aol.com
50/50 Raffle
6 -8:45: ticket sales
8:45pm: Drawing of Winners
We'll be doing a 50/50 Raffle during the Carnival. Winners wil be announced from our entertainment stage at 8:45 pm. Money collected from the raffle will help cover our carnival expenses, along with other expenses associated with this year's UWWG, as printing, supplies, etc.....
Fairy Godparent’s
Organized by Heather Burditt
Monday 6 -7:30 pm: Sign-ups
Monday 8 -9 pm: Name Drawing
(event then coninues through-out the week)
Fairy Godparent’s is a game played for the duration of the conference. It’s a chance to make the conference a little magical!
Each person who wants to participate will write their name and information on a slip of paper and place it into a bucket. Later, each person who placed their name in the bucket will draw a name that isn’t their own. That is your Fairy Godchild.
Once you have his/her name, spend the week making your Fairy Godchild feel special. You can write him a letter, have someone give her a hug, give him some arcade tokens, get her some candy from the candy shop, make a sign saying how wonderful he is. The ideas are endless! Be creative. But don’t give away your identity!
Sign-ups will be Monday from 6 - 7:45 pm at our Registration Table during the Winter Carnival
Name drawing will be from 8:00 – 9 pm
The game is for ANYONE regardless of age! Parents can help the younger children fulfill their duties.
We request each participant to please bring a 4 X6 photo of themselves. We will then paste their info. on the back of the photo to be drawn, to help Godparents know who their new Godchild is.
Must be attending UWWG from Monday until at least Thursday.
We will have a designated area in our conference area where items can be placed throughout the week, for one’s Godchild.
SSUDS
Hosted by T. J. Phillips
Monday 9:30 pm - ? Gathering in Kuhunaville Bar
Tuesday 6:30 - 7:45 Round table discussion of men folk
For other SSUDS gatherings through-out the week,
see announcements boards for time/place
The Secret Society of Unschooling Dads will be convening again throughout the week. Only men folk are granted access.
These will be led by T.J. Phillips -unschooling dad who lives in Vermont with his swissarmywife, Heather, and 3 boys, Skylar(10), Milo(4), and Phoenix (6 Months). They have been unschooling for 3 years and living radically for…a long time. Cool conversation, new ideas and friendships are sure to result!
TUESDAY EVENING
Scavenger Hunt
Organized by Laura Riesenberg and Deanne Leland
6 pm – 7:30 pm
Come and join us for a scavenger hunt with a twist! Rather than looking for and collecting objects, you will be meeting fellow UWWG attendees and collecting their signatures to help complete your hunt. Fun for both young and old, this event promises to help you learn more about others at the UWWG. By the time the hunt ends, you will know something about everyone in the hunt that you didn't know before! Who travelled the furthest to the Kalahari, who is an only child, who is related to someone famous, come and find out! There will also be some prizes for the winners!
Talent Show
M.C.'s: The Joyce brothers, Jeff and Scott
8 pm – 10 pm
Have a talent you want to share? We'd love to see it. Singing, dancing, poetry, short skits, magic, standing on your head - whatever you can do, show it off! Family and group acts are also encouraged. We welcome all talents and all ages for a fun night of community and camaraderie.
We kindly request acts to be limited to three minutes, to ensure the show moves along and everyone gets their time in the spotlight. We'll have sign-up sheets at the registration table beginning Monday.
Unschooled Teens & Young Adult Panel / Open Forum Q &A
10pm - ?
After the talent show, we’ll have a panel of unschooled teens and young adults on stage. They have offered to allow us to put them on a panel and ask questions about their unschooling life. What they like about it? What they don't? How do they earn? What about socialization? Do they have any friends? It’s sure to be a lively discussion. Who knows, we may learn a few thing!!
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Talent Show
M.C.: Dan Ray
6 pm – 8 pm
Our talent show continues for a second night for all to be entertained by our group’s varied and amazing talents. Note the second night’s talent show starts earlier, to help ensure those with younger kids can be scheduled to perform before falling asleep!
Movie Night
8:15 - 10 pm:
Kung Fu Panda - "G" rated family movie
10 pm - 12:30am
Batman, The Dark Knight - rated PG -13
Join us for Movie Night right, where all are welcomed. We'll be using the facilities big screen projector and sound system. Feel free to bring pillows / blankets to relax on the floor.
THURSDAY EVENING
Medieval Ballroom
Dance
Organized and D. J.'d by Dennis Wolf
8pm - Midnight
A Grand Ballroom Dance like no other, is planned!. This year's dance theme is a Medieval Ballroom dance. Feel free to dress up as princesses, knights, or whatever else you feel like wearing. ( Note - dressing up is optional)
And keep in mind this is a FAMILY FRIENDLY DANCE for ALL ages, from infants to parents & grandparents, too.
Unschooling dad, Dennis Wolf, will be back by popular demand, as our dance D.J. Dennis plans on playing themed music early in the dance then transitioning over to more traditional dance music, as the night goes on. He’ll also be giving away prizes throughout the dance. If anyone has anything they'd like to donate as dance prizes, please bring ‘em.
Also, if you can help with the dance decorating or clean-up, please contact Dennis at: wolfdw1968@aol.com
Plus, throughout the Week ....
· lots of funshops
· lots of discussions / talks
· on-going younger kid's craft / play room
· on-going older kid's lounge room
· on-going adult lounge area
NOTE – Above is a tentative Schedule of Events. All dates and times are subject to change. Final Schedules of Events will be given to all attendants in their Welcome Packets upon registering at our UWWG registration table. |
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