IlluminatedAttic Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 A few families are getting together to form an informal (meaning no fees and not lots of rules on paper) co-op this autumn. One parent will teach Spanish, another will lead a nature study and another an art project. There will be lots of time for free play/exploration and child directed projects. Another parent is going to guide us along in ongoing community service projects. We have all worked together well over the past year in similar endeavors and we have had a couple of meetings and easily come to agreement on the basic rules and schedule. We don't envision adding more people, just want to keep things small and add a bit of directed academic time to our already frequent playdates. So we're looking for a fun name for our group. Something that we can possibly paint onto tie dyed t-shirts and will give the kids a bit of feeling of group cohesiveness and set our Thursdays apart from other activities in their minds. We tried giving them the option of naming the group but so far they've been uninspired. Anyone out there feeling creative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Miss Peregrine's Home(school) for Peculiar Children? :D See here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kricau Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 My local homeschool group uses the motto "Homeschoolers: the world is our classroom" feel free to use that :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah CB Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 We had a naming contest. The kids all submitted suggestions and then we had a vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 I saw a short article talking about it, maybe something in it will spark an idea for all of you? http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/articles/011998.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 A few families are getting together to form an informal (meaning no fees and not lots of rules on paper) co-op this autumn. One parent will teach Spanish, another will lead a nature study and another an art project. There will be lots of time for free play/exploration and child directed projects. Another parent is going to guide us along in ongoing community service projects. We have all worked together well over the past year in similar endeavors and we have had a couple of meetings and easily come to agreement on the basic rules and schedule. We don't envision adding more people, just want to keep things small and add a bit of directed academic time to our already frequent playdates. So we're looking for a fun name for our group. Something that we can possibly paint onto tie dyed t-shirts and will give the kids a bit of feeling of group cohesiveness and set our Thursdays apart from other activities in their minds. We tried giving them the option of naming the group but so far they've been uninspired. Anyone out there feeling creative? Two ideas: The mention of tie-dye and the content of you classes (service, art, nature, language) brought the word 'Peace' to mind. You could call it Peace Club or Peace Day. The shirts could use the word or the symbol and the peace symbol would also make an easy way to mark the calendar! or You know how NaNoWriMo means National Novel Writing Month? Maybe you could do something similar with the first 2-3 letters of the last names of the families involved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlluminatedAttic Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Thanks for the help, you've given me some good jumping of points to work with! We have invited the children to name the group, but I think it might be too abstract an idea for them (not the same as naming a pet) and they just haven't come up with anything yet so I thought if we could give them some ideas to start with that might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Our doctor's office is called Abra-Kid-Abra - sometimes written abraKIDabra. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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