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Meetings

August 1, 2007

1.  Two ways to homeschool

    A.    Go through the schoolboard office.   Pick up a packet at the beginning of the year, return it to Baton Rouge at the end of the year.   Helen Morgan does this.

    B.   Send a letter to the LA Dept of Education.   The Letter head should have the name of your school, and the body should simply state that for the year XXXX-XXXX you will be homeschooling X number of children.   No official registration of your school is necessary.    This letter must be sent within 30 days of school starting, and send it registered so you get a card back in the mail.   Attach it to a copy of your letter, and file it.   Most parents in POAHS do this.

2.    POAHS - As a monthly parents' meeting, we are a support group for each other.   We plan field trips, which we try to do monthly, or at least every other month.   We plan fun things for the kids to do, such as a monthly ceramic class ($5 per child per class).   We plan play dates where the kids can play and moms can walk and talk.   We also have a couple of parties (Christmas, Easter) and an end-of-year party.    The first year, at the end-of-year party, several of the kids did projects and displayed them on tables around the room.  The kids stood by their project, and as visitor (parents, relatives) came by and asked, the children would describe what their project was about.    This was a huge success all around.   We did not do this in the 2006-2007 school year due to timing difficulties on the parts of most families.

3.    Curricula - We discussed the curricula used by various POAHS members who were present, including A Beka, Switched-On-Schoolhouse, Math-U-See, and Sonlight.  We also discussed an online writing case which has been used by several members in the past, and is being used by Valarie Rogers this year, this is a supplement to curricula, not a stand-alone course, and can be found at Home2Teach.

4.    CO-OP -   We discussed group lessons (or not group), such as music, voice, art, etc.   If we can hire a teacher as a group, we can save on money by splitting the cost.   This is a goal desired by POAHS.