Jul. 21, 2008 - Classes are going to resume in September!
I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! This is just a quick update that classes will begin again during the first week of September, and we are looking forward to some great classes this first quarter. Also, I am working on setting up a few field trips right away. If you have any suggestions for field trips, please just drop me an e-mail. I'll be posting more within the next week about what to expect for the fall!
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Apr. 30, 2008 - A special offer....
from The Old Schoolhouse magazine!!! Do you subscribe to this magazine at all? My best friend got me hooked on it, and I love seeing a new issue in my mailbox.
I wanted to tell you about a special promotion the magazine for homeschool families is running right now. If you subscribe for just a year, you actually (while supplies last) will receive 25 curriculum-type gifts from various vendors. The value is huge – hundreds of dollars' worth of freebies to you. No strings attached – except that TOS only has about 2000 of these “gift baskets” left in their inventory. First come, first served. Here's the link which explains more, below. You can even view all the gifts and find out how they'll arrive. Hurry, though, they go really fast. Last time the magazine did this they sold out about two months early.
http://www.theoldschoolhousestore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66_60&products_id=1542
The above link will show you the pictures of your free gifts plus give you all the details.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!!!
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Apr. 17, 2008 - We had our Coop planning meeting.....
I can’t believe how fast this first semester went by! We had our planning meeting for the next school year today, and here is what we have come up with: Summer plans (and we will be adding more park days and field trips as time goes on)- May 8th- Science fair May 15th- Jungle Jims field trip. Meet at the church at 9:30 am. May 22nd- Golden Gate Castle Park- Meet at 11:00 am, pack a lunch June 5th- Duke park in Troy- Pack a lunch, meet at 11:00 June 12th- Centennial Water Park in Englewood. Bring a lunch and meet at 11:00 am. Also, put the kids in a swimsuit and bring a towel. This is always a big hit, and it’s free! July 10th - Party at the Coate’s house. Bring food to share. July 21st- Columbus Zoo field trip. More info to come. The new school year will start on September 4th. We will be trying a new schedule of 8 weeks on/1 week off with the entire month of December being off. Hopefully this will prevent us from feeling overwhelmed. Fall quarter will be packed full of fun activities! We have an acting class planned for the first quarter, along with a great new science class, a study on missions and, of course, we will be keeping gym class for the kids. We are also going to have the kids start a newspaper, have someone come in to o ‘school photos’ for the kids and, hopefully, work on getting a yearbook together for the kids! We are going to try something different with the membership. Instead of paying every week, if you would like, you can just pay for the whole year all at once (or quarterly, or whatever works best for your family). The fee will be $128 a year, no matter which way you want to divide it up. We are looking forward to a great summer and a fantastic start to the next school year! If you have any suggestions, or any questions, please e-mail me right away! J
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Apr. 10, 2008 - Planning meeting!!!
Please join us at West Milton park on April 17th for a planning meeting! Pack a picnic lunch for you and your children and come ready with your ideas for the upcoming school year. Some things that will be discussed- classes for the fall, summer park days and field trips, membership fees for next school year, bringing in a photographer to do school pictures for our kids and more!
We will meet at noon at West Milton park on state route 571. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Mar. 9, 2008 - We will be starting new classes soon!
This Thursday (March 13th) marks the end of our first quarter as a co-op! What fun we have had! On March the 20th, we switch classes. We have a cooking class planned, gardening, and gym class! Come join in the fun and make some new friends along the way!
Some announcements:
March 13th- I need all money for the Creation Museum field trip. We leave out at 7 am Saturday, March 15th. Plan to be at Community Grace Brethren Church before 7, please.
Start working on a project for the science fair! We will be holding our science fair May 15th. The science fair will be divided up into 2 age groups- K-2nd and 3rd-6th.
We will continue to meet through the summer, though we have not hammered out the exact details for this. We are planning some park days, a field day, outside science classes and many more fun activities for the summer. Please, plan on joining us!
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Feb. 19, 2008 - We had a great field trip to Boonshoft Museum!!!
We had the best science classes today! The kids made spectrascopes (in which they could make and see rainbows), and they got to participate in a bunch of science experiments that showed really cool colors. They also had fun wandering through the museum and playing/learning at all of the different exhibits. Check out these pictures from our wonderful day-
I have more pics, but seem to have run out of space... I'll try again tomorrow! We have more fantastic field trips planned, so come check us out and get in on the fun!!!
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Feb. 8, 2008 - REMINDERS FOR NEXT WEEK (February 14th)
February 14th is Valentines day and we will be having a party! Bring your already-made cards, a treat to share with everyone and a shoebox. We will decorate the boxes to be mailboxes for the card exchange.
Also, if you plan on going on the Boonshoft field trip, please try to prepay on Thursday (if you can). I have to pay them in large bills only, so it would be a bit easier if I could have everything pulled together in advance. Thank you so much!!!! :-)
We look forward to seeing you Thursday morning!!!
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Feb. 8, 2008 - Co-op was great yesterday!
We had a lot of fun making Valentines to give to the firemen after our field trip today. The kids loved the glitter paint and the conversation hearts, LOL. They did some warm up stretches in gym and then had a balloon relay race. In music they looked further at how to read music and then we added a class- science! In science the kids made balloon rockets and held races shooting them across the room.
Today we took the kids to the fire station. It was a wonderful field trip (though, my oldest is now pointing out any and all things wrong in our house, fire-safety wise, LOL). Fire safety was discussed, the kids got to see (and hear) what a fireman looks like in the full gear, they got to see the fire-house and they got to get in a firetruck and an ambulance! Quite a full afternoon, LOL.
These are the 'hooks' on a 'hook and ladder' truck.
The jaws of life... those are sooooo cool!
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Feb. 2, 2008 - Updated field trip list!!!!
I am organizing this list a little bit better and will continue to add on to it (I have a few places that need to return calls so that we can set up more field trips). Here's what we have so far-
February 8th- Englewood fire station
February 19th- Boonshoft Museum (This will include a really cool Creative Science class).
March 7th- WHIO News station
March 15th- Creation Museum (We are getting a fantastic discount!!!)
Please e-mail me for all of the details or check out the sign up sheets next Thursday at Community Co-op!!! Hope to see you at some of these fun activities!!! :-)
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Jan. 31, 2008 - 13, that's 13 kids at co-op today!!!
Hey, I feel like the Count from Sesame Street, LOL. Yes, we did have 13 (and that was with four kids absent today). Our little co-op is growing and we are having fun! First, some announcements. We have a field trip to a firestation planned for February 8th and a field trip to Boonshoft planned for February 19th. Please e-mail us for the details (or get the details at the next co-op). Also, we have a family field trip planned for Saturday, March 15th (so that husbands can come too, LOL) to the Creation Museum! We have a great discount offered to us ($9.95 for adults, $6.95 for children, $4.00 for the planetarium) and I need to know how many you have coming and I need half of the admission by February 20th.
Febraury 7th we will be making Valentines to take to the Grace Brethren Village. The residents will appreciate having some cards to brighten their day! We also have a Valentines Day party scheduled for the 14th. Have your Valentines cards made before coming and bring a shoebox to decorate as a mailbox for the card exchange!
Now, for some pictures of our morning. I would have had more, but I ran out of battery power and my spare batteries were not in the bag (one of my children probably swiped them for his racecar).
This is how our gym teacher survives the day, LOL.
The kids made foam door decorations for their rooms.
One of the games we played was musical chairs. This was when my camera died, LOL, but you can bet there was more fun to be had even after this shot! :-) Please, join us next week!
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Jan. 17, 2008 - We had a great first day!!!!!
The first day of co-op was wonderful! We had a total of 11 children (not counting younger siblings that also tagged along!). Our music teacher was sick, but even without a music class, we managed to fill the time well.
The kids started a 2 part art project (photo frames) and will finish those up next week. They also made a fun *popper* out of brown paper bags- these make such a fun noise!
Our gym teacher had several great activities- soccer, volleyball (with a beach ball), and some fun *tag* style games. All of the kids seemed to have a great time and we are looking forward to more fun next week! Here are some pictures of our first day:
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Jan. 17, 2008 - Our Co-op newsletter!
Hopefully the first of many!!!!
Dear parents,
Welcome to Community Co-op! We are looking forward to having a wonderful time getting to know you and your children.
This co-op started when four friends realized that there is a need in our area for a relaxing co-op for young children to have a chance to *socialize* (haha, my favorite homeschool word) and learn with other young children. We all agreed that we wanted something that was FUN, first and foremost, and something that wouldn’t weigh us down with a lot of strict requirements. We are looking at setting up a yearly membership fee (probably for the next school year), but for now, as we are getting our feet wet, we just want to have some basic guidelines: The fee each week is $3.00 per child with a $6.00 per family maximum. This fee is strictly to cover the use of materials needed for the co-op. We plan on organizing some field trips, and if you have any suggestions or would like to set up a field trip, that would be wonderful! We would also appreciate it if you could start thinking about classes that you may feel up to teaching or other capacities that you feel available to help out in. Our teachers have made plans for this first 9 weeks, and we would love to start having a general plan for the next quarter.
We do have a blog at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/communitycoop that you can check out for any updates on the co-op. Also, if you would like to e-mail any questions you may have, you can e-mail us at communitycoop1@yahoo.com. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or suggestions! J
Thank you so much for checking out our co-op!
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Jan. 3, 2008 - Welcome to the Community Co-op blog!!!!
Hi there! Welcome to the blog for Community Co-op. This is a relaxed co-op at Community Grace Brethren Church in West Milton, Ohio (also known as The Chicken Church, for all of the locals, LOL). We are starting classes January 17th (art, music and gym for the first quarter). Hopefully we will have a good turn out, as I would really like to see this co-op grow.
Here is all of the basic information (and you can e-mail me with any questions that you may have): the co-op will run every Thursday from 9:30 am until noon. It is for ages 5 through grade 6 (we will divide the children into two groups- ages 5 through grade 2, and grades 3 through 6). The cost is $3.00 a week per child, with a $6.00 per family max. We have 3 moms signed up to teach this quarter, but hopefully, as we grow, we will have more volunteers. Community Grace Brethren Church is located on State Route 48, on the south side of West Milton (directly across from the Eagles lodge).
We welcome all homeschoolers! Please contact me if you have any questions at all! :-)
