Greater Glens Falls Christian Homeschoolers
Co-op is a great opportunity for homeschooling families to pool their resources and their abilities to enrich the studies and the relationships of their homeschooling kiddos. It's a chance to experience teaching under someone besides mom and dad while still having parents very close and very involved. It's a chance to build relationships with other children, and with other families, and to encourage and to be encouraged.
We’d love to have your family participate with us in co-op this year!
We will be meeting each Friday, except for a few holiday weeks, at Durkeetown Baptist Church. You can choose to participate in all of the classes offered, or just a few. All that we ask is that when your children are at co-op, unless you have made specific other arrangements with the steering committee, you are available to help. In order for co-op to run smoothly, we need teachers, classroom helpers, hall monitors, “study hall” monitors, and a clean up crew. By each filling a need we are able to keep our costs low and our cooperation high. The only charge for co-op as a whole is $6 per child for the entire year, with a cap of $30 per family. Individual classes may have a textbook to buy or a small additional fee for materials, but all effort is made to keep costs low. If fees present a financial difficulty to your family, please speak to a member of the steering committee.
Unless marked otherwise, classes are slated to run for the duration of the co-op year (25 weeks, from October through April).
Want to register for classes online? (If you receive an error message stating a thank you file isn't found, don't panic - haven't worked all the kinks out yet. Just back arrow to register another child, or sign out. You will be sent a confirmation email either that day or the next. You have registered.)
Payment for classes is available online through http://www.paypal.com/ to greaterglensfallschristian@verizon.net or by check made out to GGFCH and sent to Kathie Graham. Please be sure to add class fees and co-op fees for each child. Feel free to email greaterglensfallschristian@verizon.net with any questions.
This co-op exists under the leadership of Greater Glens Falls Christian Homeschoolers, a local chapter of New York State LEAH (Loving Education at Home). As such, all participating members of the co-op also maintain membership in GGFCH and LEAH, or of another local LEAH chapter. All members have reviewed and signed the Statements of Purpose, Faith, and Dress & Conduct of GGFCH or other LEAH chapter. All of these statements, and all of the guidelines to follow, are put into place to help to ensure that we are providing a safe, God honoring place for our children to learn. These documents are found elsewhere on this site, and we are welcoming new members on an ongoing basis.
In order to create and maintain an environment where learning can occur, and students can practice respect for authority, and be able to enjoy all of the benefits of this co-op, it is important to establish some basic, agreed upon guidelines. These guidelines, and some more fun forms that need to be filled out and brought in to co-op can be found here: http://glensfallsleah.freeservers.com/Co-op%20Conduct%20policy.doc .
Once you've registered for classes, paid your fees, and completed the above forms, take a breath and relax. You're done! If you haven't signed up already to help, a member of the steering committee will be contacting you over the summer, and we'll be in contact wtih everyone as co-op draws closer. Enjoy your summer, and we look forward to enjoying co-op with you in the fall!