Ongoing: New and returning students are being enrolled for the 2009-2010 school year. A birth certificate is required for kindergarten and students new to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

Ongoing Sept. 18: Reading Fluency Assessments (DIBELS/CBM) will be given by appointment for Homer Connections students in grades K-3. Call the office for an appointment, 226-1880.

Sept. 15: All home-schooling families and anyone interested in home schooling are invited to our Back-to-School Beach Party at Bishop's Beach, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Meet other home-school families and Connections staff. Hot dogs, chips, and drinks will be served. Games and activities are planned.

Fireweed Academy

Sept. 10-11: Fall camping trip at Anchor River.

Sept. 18: Mariner Park field trip to work on Burning Basket Project.

Sept. 23: Fall open house and curriculum meeting, 7 p.m.

Sept. 25: Wynn Nature Center field trip.

Flex School

Ongoing: Registration for grades 9-12.

Homer High School

Sept. 12-13: DDF clinic, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Homer Middle School

Sept. 11: Soccer at home, 3 p.m.

Sept. 11: Cross country at Soldotna, 3 p.m.

Sept. 15: Site countil meeting, library, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 15: Soccer at Nikiski, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 18: Soccer at home, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 18: Cross country at Kenai, 3 p.m.

Sept. 25: Soccer at Soldotna

Sept. 25: Cross counctry at Seward, 3 p.m.

Sept. 29: School pictures.

Sept. 29: Soccer, first found of boroughs.

Kachemak Selo School

Sept. 11: Holiday.

Sept. 12: Saturday school.

Sept. 21: Holiday.

McNeil Canyon Elementary School

Today: Community council meeting, 1:30 p.m.

Today: Harvest fair, all-day.

Today: Open house, 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 14-25: Artist-in-school T. J. Casey, cowboy poet. from Montana.

Sept. 15: After-school learning lab begins.

Nikolaevsk School

Sept. 11: No school.

Sept. 11: 2009 ACS Class Challenge Cross Country Meet, Anchorage Christian Schools.

Ninilchik School

Sept. 11: University of Alaska Anchorage representative visits school.

Paul Banks Elementary School

Sept. 11: Red, white, blue day.

Sept. 22: School pictures; retakes Oct. 22.

Razdolna School

Sept. 11: Holiday.

Sept 12: Saturday school.

Voznesenka School

Sept. 11: Holiday.

Sept 12: Saturday school.

West Homer Elementary School

Sept. 30: School pictures.

Oct. 6-8: Terra Nova testing, grade 5.

Oct. 16: End of quarter; in-service; no school.

Oct. 28: Picture retakes.

Oct. 29-30: Parent-teacher conferences.

Community Schools

Latin Dance, the workout, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Homer High School green room; taught by Jeannette Aragones; $10 per class; six for $48. Call 299-1127.

Kachemak Bay Campus

New class added: Introduction to Computer basics workshop: Sept. 19 and 26.

Advanced registration is going on now for these upcoming classes:

Opera Appreciation, Sept. 15; Whales of Kachemak Bay, Sept. 23; Geology of Kachemak Bay, today; Yoga, Sept. 14; Tai Chi, Sept. 16; Karate, Sept. 14; Plankton Ecology, Oct. 3; Screenwriting, Oct. 5; MS Word, Financing a Business, and more. Registration required prior to class.

To enroll in literacy, adult basic, English as a second language or GED classes, call 235-1602.

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