Our Co-Op Experience

The girls attended their first “co-op” (cooperative) class on Friday last week.

A homeschool co-op is a collective group of homeschoolers that working together for a common purpose. All members of the co-op must contribute in some way toward the end goal; usually this contribution is in the form of effort, not money.

I learned about the “Guarding Hearts” co-op through a co-worker right before I left my job. Ten years ago several parents came together in the King George community to join together to form the Guarding Hearts co-op where they teach varying subjects to their children. I signed the girls up for the “World Passport” course. This course is designed to educate the students on various countries and cultures from around the Globe.

For their first class they learned about India. 

The co-op started out with a talk from a young lady that will be heading to India in October as a missionary. As a homeschooled child growing up she explained how she was led to seek the Lord on what He desired of her as she graduated and finished her high school years. She received a call from some friends of her family that were missionaries in India and they asked her if she would join them to do the Lord’s work there, establishing Churches and spreading the gospel. She will be leaving in October and staying for 8 months. She talked about the Indian culture and how she is preparing herself for her missionary work.

 

 

As the girls were dismissed to their classes they took part in creating their own passport that will be stamped each month as they “visit” the varying countries that they’ll learn about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lea made a flag in her class with colors of India and was able to listen to the music of India and try out some of their foods (the buttered chicken was the best!).  The food sort of just runs all together on the plate, but it is actually very tasty. I was surprised that Lea was courageous enough to try the food because she’s our picky eater. She loved the chicken and bread. I couldn’t get Love to try much of anything!