We need to have a large parental presence to make our events run smoothly. Parents do not need to come to every event, but we ask that you attend at least half as many events as your student attends. Younger family members are certainly welcome at events appropriate to their age. All events are at the Hinrichs' residence unless stated otherwise.
Potluck and Barbeque Instructions
Please bring your own drinks, plates and utensils. Please bring a main course and if your last initial begins with A-L please bring a salad or side dish and if M-Z, a dessert. Please bring an amount proportionate to the number of mouths you bring with you. The barbeque will be available if you would like to cook meat or vegetables. If you are not able to bring food, please bring $4 per person for the pizza fund. Please give the money to Mr. Hinrichs as soon as you can the day of the event so he knows how much to order.
September 7th- Friday
Ice Cream Social
12:00 Please stay after class to get to know your classmates around some good ice cream!Sacramento Mini-fling??
November 2nd- Friday
Full Moon Oktoberfest
ETS will be hosting an Oktoberfest (yes, it's in November-- that's when there's a full moon and we are available!) event celebrating German culture! We would like to serve authentic German food at this event. Mr. H will be providing a variety of Bratwurst (please pay $2 per person for the bratwurst, if you would.) Please email Mrs. Hinrichs (christy@hinrichs.org) with the item on the food page that you would like to bring.It would be helpful if any families planning on attending could pay Mr. Hinrichs by the 26th and email Mrs. Hinrichs what dishes they wish to bring. Please see below for the whole schedule:
Schedule:
12:45 Choir: Non-choir members are all welcome as we will be learning some traditional German folks songs to sing at the Oktoberfest.
1:30 Dance Practice: We will be learning a number of new traditional German dances.
3:00 German Film: The Legacy of Karl Richter
5:00 Sports- Croquet, bocce, basketball, volleyball
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Dancing and singing
9:30 ConclusionDecember 21st- Friday
Christmas Ball
For details, please see http://www.gbt.org/events/christmasball.html
December 22nd- Saturday
Alumni Gathering
For details, please see http://www.gbt.org/events/christmasball.html
12 Alumni Lunch
1:00 Alumni Book discussion
"Orthodoxy" by G. K. Chesterton
3:00 socializing
5:00 Music, Dancing, Movie
January 18th- Friday
2:00 PM - ETS tutorials informational meeting in EscondidoEscondido Tutorial Service offers homeschoolers in the Escondido area classes in Great Books, Geometry, Shakespeare, Choir, Music Theory, History of Math and Science and Classical Greek. If you would like to hear more about these classes and ask questions, please come to the ETS local classroom at 2 p.m. on Friday, January 18th. You are welcome to sit in on classes that day as well- 8:00 AM Great Books II, 10:00 AM Great Books IV and 12:30 Choir.
Fritz Hinrichs has been teaching the Great Books for 19 years and is a graduate of St. John's College and Westminster Seminary. He has worked both locally and online with over 900 Great Books students. He and his wife of 13 years, Christy, have five children. For more information, please go to www.gbt.org.
January 26th Saturday -
Theater and Choir Showcase
11:00-12:00 Orchestra Practice
12:30-2:30 Choir practice with Orchestra
Instrumentalists- please be diligent to practice your part with finale beforehand so that we can assemble the pieces quickly during the practice.
3:00--5:00 PM Afternoon performance
7:00-9:00 PM Evening performanceFebruary 19th- Tuesday
6:30 PM - ETS tutorials informational meeting in TemeculaEscondido Tutorial Service offers homeschoolers in the Escondido area classes in Great Books, Geometry, Shakespeare, Choir, Music Theory, History of Math and Science and Classical Greek. If you would like to hear more about these classes and ask questions, please come to Lambert Home at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19th.
Fritz Hinrichs has been teaching the Great Books for 19 years and is a graduate of St. John's College and Westminster Seminary. He has worked both locally and online with over 900 Great Books students. He and his wife of 13 years, Christy, have five children. For more information, please go to www.gbt.org.March
Greece Trip- Please email for more details. (CANCELLED)
March 24th- Sunday
Afternoon picnic in the park and concert
1:00 Picnic in Grape Day Park
Please bring a blanket and your lunch- a few tables are available.
2:00 Introductory talk by Mr. Hinrichs in the park.
2:30 Concert Hall opens- California Center for the Arts- Escondido
The concert hall is right next to the park.
3:00 Concert- Gabriel Faure- Requiem
If you would like to read some background information on the requiem, please click here or watch the links below for the various movements of the Requiem. The Requiem is only 40 minutes, so the choir will also be signing a number of other choral selections from the same time period as well.Introit & Kyrie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ58q...
Offertory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxltYe...
Sanctus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cVTi...
Pie Jesu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBtNl...
Agnus Dei - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1FKoP...
Libera me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ynrd...
In Paradisum - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQe_b...
Tickets are free to the concert due to some very kind pricing from the center for the arts and some very generous contributions from the Hass and Hinrichs matriarchs. We have reserved the entire first balcony (250 seats!) and would love to get the tickets to interested members of the homeschool community. Is there a catch? Yes! If you take tickets and do not use them, you are commiting to reimburse the donors their $5 per ticket. So, please request what you need but be careful not to take them if you are not sure that you and your guests are coming. Please also note that this is a formal concert. You best behavior is taken for granted and you are requested to reserve your applause until the end of the performance. The silence will help the musical spell to be effectively cast. There will be a sign up sheet for tickets in the local classroom that you can use to reserve your tickets.
5:00 Please stay and socialize in the lovely lobby!April 4th- Thursday
6:00 PM Pacific Time- ETS tutorials informational meeting OnlineEscondido Tutorial Service offers online homeschoolers classes in Great Books, Geometry, Shakespeare, History of Math and Science and Classical Greek. If you would like to hear more about these classes and ask questions, please come to our online classroom at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 4th. Go to www.gbt.org, click on the online classroom and use the password, "popcorn". If you have questions, please email gbt@gbt.org.
The meeting is limited to the first 25 attendants. If you find the room is already full, please email gbt@gbt.org regarding other online meetings to be scheduled.
Fritz Hinrichs has been teaching the Great Books for 19 years and is a graduate of St. John's College and Westminster Seminary. He has worked both locally and online with over 900 Great Books students. He and his wife of 13 years, Christy, have five children. For more information, please go to www.gbt.org.
April 5th- Friday
7:00 PM - ETS tutorials informational meeting in EscondidoEscondido Tutorial Service offers homeschoolers in the Escondido area classes in Great Books, Geometry, Shakespeare, Choir, Music Theory, History of Math and Science and Classical Greek. If you would like to hear more about these classes and ask questions, please come to the ETS local classroom at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 5th. You are welcome to sit in on classes that day as well- 8:00 AM Great Books II, 10:00 AM Great Books IV and 12:30 Choir.
Fritz Hinrichs has been teaching the Great Books for 19 years and is a graduate of St. John's College and Westminster Seminary. He has worked both locally and online with over 900 Great Books students. He and his wife of 13 years, Christy, have five children. For more information, please go to www.gbt.org.
April 26th
Shakespearean Full-Moon Dance
Be ready to cook some renaissance food and learn some renaissance and Elizabethan dances.
2:00 Movie- Coriolanus (Edited)
4:00 Sports - Volley Ball, Croquet, Etc...
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Dancing
9:30 EndPlease bring a main dish and a side dish or a main dish and a dessert proportionate to the number of people you are bringing. Here is a website (http://www.soupsong.com/ibard.html) with a list of foods mentioned in Shakespeare, along with quotes from the plays. You might try making something using these ingredients.
For example, you could make a salad usingapples, ( Henry IV, part I, III, 3:
FALSTAFF: Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-john.)
walnuts, ( The Taming of the Shrew, IV, 3:
PETRUCHIO: Why, this was moulded on a porringer; A velvet dish: fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy: Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap: Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.) and
lettuce ( Othello, The Moor of Venice, I, 3:
IAGO: Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.)
For fun, you could write out the quotes in which your food items are mentioned and tape them on the food dish.After dinner, we will teach some Elizabethan dances and also do some of the dances we already know. We will end with singing. Please feel free to dress in Elizabethan costume or as characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
Looking forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Hinrichs - christy@hinrichs.org
May 10-11th
CFS Expo Escondido- ETS will be there!
Please come to the expo! During the expo we will be hosting an informational meeting on the ETS tutorials. Please email for the specific time.
May 24th
Greek (Mediterranean) Full-Moon Dance
Be ready to cook some Greek food and learn some Greek dances.
2:00 Movie- TBA
4:00 Sports- Volley ball, Croquet Etc.
6:00 Potluck - Please email for recipes.
7:00 Dancing
9:00 EndMay 31st - Friday
Ice Cream Social
12:00-1:00 Please stay after class to say goodbye to your classmates around some good ice cream! Choir will meet from 1:00 to 2:00.
June 17th-22nd
Spring fling-
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