A yahoogroup just for you!
As of March 2006, there is a new email list on Yahoo! Groups. It's for OFTP Kids — the homelearning children of OFTP members. Come share your thoughts and interests, stories and jokes, and make friends with other OFTP Kids!
To join the OFTPkids list, send your parents' full names to OFTPkids-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (Your family has to be a member of OFTP first. Let your parents know about OFTP and the OFTPkids webpages and email list. Once they join OFTP, you'll be an OFTP Kid too!)
RULES: Everybody needs to be treated with respect, so remember to keep your language appropriate and kind when you send messages to the email list. The list is moderated by OFTP parents.
There is a separate list for OFTP Teens.
Help fill the OFTP Kids webpages!
Send me your favourite links, information about your favourite books, games, places to go, things to do...
Naim (pronounced Naeem) had a great idea: let's have a page for jokes!
Okay, Naim — here it is:
OFTP Kids'
Jokes for Kids.
Click on the link and see the joke Naim sent. Are you an OFTP
Kid with a joke to share, too? Send
it in!
Send me your writing and art, too -- stories, essays, poems, photos, drawings...
Speaking of which, here's a project for you: the OFTP Kids pages need their own versions of the OFTP logo, and you (the kids of OFTP members) are the ones who can create them!
Send me your drawing for the OFTP Kids logo!
Make a drawing that has the OFTP logo in it and we'll use it on the OFTP Kids webpages!
It needs to be a picture of 1, 2 or 3 kids (or toys for kids) and it needs
to have the OFTP
logo somewhere in it. 
This is the OFTP logo:
Here are some ideas:
- a kid watering the logo with a watering can
- a kid popping out of the frame of the logo
- a kid with an OFTP T-shirt
- a kid with a kite that is the logo
- building blocks with the logo on one of them
- whatever else your imagination comes up with!
This project is open to kids whose families are members of OFTP (The Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents).
Send your drawings to me at website@ (add ontariohomeschool.org to complete the email address).
Hey! You know where else you can send your art and writing?
The Home & School Times
"The Home & School Times is a newspaper by and for children and youth. Its original purpose was to showcase the works of our talented home schoolers and inform people of events in the area. Some children in the school system also wanted to participate and so we opened it up. We invite OFTP kids to submit stories, artwork, poetry, photographs and anything that can be printed. The newspaper can be delivered to your door. $25 covers our cost of printing and mailing 11 issues each year. It can also be found in libraries around Simcoe County and Oro Medonte."
Editors are OFTP teen members Andre and Nicky and their mom Beverly.
PO Box 247, Moonstone ON L0K 1N0
705-835-3256
beverlypearl@
(add sympatico.ca to complete the email address)
We hope to reprint some of the Home & School Times art and writing on the OFTP Kids pages.
