General Information and Registration
About us:
We strive to provide a fun and inviting atmosphere where our children can feel ownership over their community! Our co-op is designed to give our families consistent friendships & engaging activities together!
Our classes are extracurricular focusing on projects, activities, arts, engineering, science, unit studies and a lot of creativity! Our classes do not overlap with the core curriculum you’ve chosen to use at home and no homework assignments are given. We believe in maximizing the collaborative nature of group learning and hands on creating!
You can read more in our FAQ's here.
Where and When:
We meet every other Friday morning during the school year from 9:30am - 12:00pm at 2701 Florence Blvd, Florence Alabama
Who can apply?
Homeschooling families with a child 5 years old or older can apply. We are not a drop-off group, all parents and children stay for the entire time. Siblings younger than 5 years old can attend and will be placed in age groupings (Toddler classes and nursery).
Apply for membership:
To apply, you can visit our registration information section, or view our application here. The last day for applications is April 1st.
Contact Information:
If you have questions, you can email them to HCShoals@gmail.com or join our facebook group and send a message that way.
Registration
How to join:
Step 1:
Read through our Membership Handbook for specific information and policies to make sure we are a match for what you are looking for.
Step 2:
Submit an application: here by April 1st
Note: the application answers many of the questions you might have. Please read through it before contacting us with questions.
Step 3:
Attend Visitor Day on April 19th at 11:30am
*you must have applied in order to attend.
Step 4:
Responses to the applications will be sent out in May, your family membership fee is due immediately. Once your fee has been paid, your registration is complete!
Step 5:
Members of our co-op are added to a closed facebook group where communication and coordination takes places.
Family Membership: $135
This covers your family's membership for the entire school year from August - May. Every parent is a volunteer, so this fee covers expenses like the building rent, group supplies, admin costs, special group days.
Class Costs
These expenses are collected in August and again in January
Children 18 months - 3 years old
$15 per semester
Younger children without class choices
$30 per semester per child
Children with class choices
$30 per semester base price per child
**additional per class expenses may be added to specific classes that have higher expenses. This will be shown on the Class Selection Form when that is ready and sent to parents.
Our Mission:
learn
Our students gather in age groups and together learn from parent-led classes. We spend time in extra curricular subjects like art, history, sciences, unit studies, gardening & nature!
Our schedule creates a balance between learning and playing. Play is important and creates some magical moments. Every day we have tinker stations and let the children explore open play.
create
Facilitating friendships is the whole point! We believe in a recipe of using co-op class days to create familiarity between families and add in field trips, group days, and park play dates to help friendships flourish.
grow
play
Nothing beats seeing our kids bring their creations to life. We encourage making messes! Egg drops, popsicle stick engineering, volcanos, sculptures, cake decorating, catapults, Hieroglyphs, duct tape swords and shields - we're centered in hands on projects!
socialize
We love to see each child's confidence grow in gathering, trying out new subjects and experiences, making friendships, and feeling ownership over their co-op. Strengthening each other's journey in homeschooling is a beautiful thing!