Category Archives: Co-op-ing

    I often loose my temper and stick my foot in my mouth.  So one of the most beautiful thing in my life is when God brings forgiveness to me from the people I’ve spoken harshly too.     Several years Continue reading Oldie but Goody→

    Has anyone tried this outlining resource?     The idea of a game: I give a short lecture to the co-op class, they use their notes to create an outline, then compare their outlines to my original one sounds fun.  Continue reading Outlining→

    Now this is going to sound totally wimpy.     I just facilitate the planning meetings, I’m not always sure what we are going to turn up as a focus for a semester, but as this particular co-op director, guiding Continue reading What Eagle’s Wings is doing Next Semester→

    When I was in 4th grade, Miss Rose (who sometimes decorated the bulletin board with a tree trunk and leafed it out over lunch hour with zip lock baggies full of home made chocolate chip cookies for us, all Continue reading Researching Research Papers→

    Day after tomorrow is the planning meeting for Eagle’s Wings Co-op.  Here is my plan for getting ready:     I’m going to log in on the web-based schedule making program that our brilliant teen-ager made us, and click on Continue reading Co-op planning meeting→

    Last winter before the Lego Competition, DH an B were interviewed on local PBS with our friend who introduced us to Lego robotics, and one of B’s team members, N. http://aacs15.com/?q=node/332 Old posts about what they were doing are Continue reading My Lego Guys are on Web Video!→

    While this lady’s co-op is run differently than the one I organize, I really like what she has to say. Why Support Support Groups         It seems to me that most people get out what they put into Continue reading Why bother to co-op, a link→

   The ladies came up with way more ideas than I would ever have thought of.  I had printed out copies of the schedule as we had made it in Spring, with blank spaces where we didn’t have teachers, helpers Continue reading How the planning meeting went→

We had to call another planning meeting, last Spring we tried planning both semesters at the same time, but nearly half the ladies that signed up to teach something aren’t co-oping with us next semester, so we have gaps to Continue reading Had to call a co-op meeting, but I have a chart!→

    Well, we just got through the teacher intensive part of today’s school, I put the cards in our to do slot and hoped for the best.  We didn’t get very far when I slipped the more ambitious cards into Continue reading The 2nd First Day of School→

    Yesterday I reaped the fruits of my Summer scramble.  The ladies who were in charge of announcements, set up, clean up, kid wrangling and teaching worked flawlessly.  I passed of my church key, and geometry book to my substitutes, Continue reading Ah, ready to go to China, mostly and drawing with young kids.→

This morning I can travel to the scrap book store sans kids, to buy a new mini book to fill with favorite pictures to take to China with me, so I can look over my family from far away.  What Continue reading New Scrapbook and co-op management→