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Minute to Minute Readers Helping
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| October 13th, 2007 |
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As homeschoolers we strive to find ways for our children to
interact. Often these interaction times take the form of
homeschool groups or co-ops. But what happens when your co-op
class turns into an ordinary classroom? What happens when
homeschooling get togethers start to lose their glimmer of
fun?
This week's writer wants your help to make her co-op more
fun and less school-formal. She knows that the children in her
co-op need interaction with one another and that one way to
achieve this is through a classroom-type setting, but
homeschooling fun times should not reflect classroom school
time. What should she do? She doesn't know, but you do.

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| Homeschool Co-op = School |
Dear Minute to Minute Readers,
Here's my question: how do you keep a homeschool co-op
from becoming "just like school?" After all, you have one
teacher, 15 kids, and a task to complete (information to share
or maybe a project).
It seems
to me that when children are brought together, their agenda is
a social one: to make friends or strengthen existing
friendships. They're not necessarily interested in learning
about physics, North & South America, or
Shakespeare.
So how do
we "teach" in such a way that we don't simply recreate a
traditional classroom, with all the absurdities and
repressions we've rejected by choosing to
homeschool?
Involved With A Homeschool Co-op,
Nancy |
| Homeschooling Resources |
Planning
a Homeschool Co-op?
The
Homeschool Co-op Planner E-Book by
Julie Forsythe, a 5 year Co-op Coordinator, contains
instructions on how to plan and manage a homeschool co-op.
This resource includes printable forms, idea lists, and many
recommendations and suggestions to help you along the way.
Download and begin reading
today! | |
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If you have ideas on how Nancy's co-op can become more
fun and less like school email us. When you email us, you give us permission
to post your responses in the Minute to Minute
e-newsletter, send them to Nancy, and use them
in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine's My Voice column if
selected.
Sincerely, |
Elisabeth Marlowe, The Minute to
Minute Editor The Old Schoolhouse
Magazine | | |