OUR MISSION

The Home School Connection seeks to provide a setting for home schooling families to come together and establish connections with one another in order to draw strength, encouragement and a fresh love of learning.

Our foremost aim is to put God first in all that we do so that His love will be manifest within and through us.

FAMILY SCHOOL

We conduct three 8-week sessions (Fall, Winter, Spring.) The first week is Kick-Off. AT Kick Off we come together and talk through the details of the upcoming term. Then come 6 weeks of classes  taught by co-op parents and guest teachers. (These are not core subject classes but are rather meant to supplement or enrich the basics you are covering at home.) The final week is an outreach time when we take our talents and some cookies to a nearby retirement home.

Classes begin at 11:00 a.m. and finish at 2:45.  There is a “No Drop Off” rule that will be enforced.  This is not a drop off situation.  In the case of emergencies or extenuating circumstances, you may make arrangements with another parent to “adopt” your school age children for the day at the co-op. Involvement in the Family School is open to children age 5 by September 1 of the current school year. Although we are a Christian organization you do not have to hold this same faith to be a member. Families pay a fee of $50.00 for the first two participating students and an additional $10 for every participating student after the first two, per term, and fulfill at least two volunteer jobs each term.

CONNECT HIGH

Connect High runs from September until June offering an array of high school core classes.  We are basing our class offerings on a Classical approach and plan to include Latin, lab sciences, writing, logic, rhetoric, Great Books and history, as well as a variety of electives.  The registration fee is $150 per student for the school year and $100 – $300 per credit, depending on the class.  Parents purchase necessary curriculum and materials.  Work study options may be available in exchange for some tuition.  Connect High has a strong emphasis on developing Godly character, self-governing and servant-leader qualities in our children.  We hold a high standard of modesty and maintaining an atmosphere of brother/sister relationships without the premature romance so prevalent in society today.

HOME SCHOOL REVIEW

At the end of each session we have an evening gathering where the children can display their work from home or Family School classes, and present speeches, dances, dramas, etc., they have learned in the co-op.  This is an excellent time to invite extended family members or neighbors and friends that are interested in your home schooling or are considering home schooling themselves in the future.

OUT DOOR SCHOOL

Early in June we gather at a nearby state park for several days of camping, outdoor activities, crafts and relationship building.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Call Megan Nixon at 503-640-6455