Perpetual Recess
sheila
" Our Perpetual
Recess thing is going to subscribe to some magazine"
Can you tell me more about your perpetual recess thing? Do you own a building? Rent? How many times a week? Is it all unschoolers?
Thanks!
Sheila
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Recess thing is going to subscribe to some magazine"
Can you tell me more about your perpetual recess thing? Do you own a building? Rent? How many times a week? Is it all unschoolers?
Thanks!
Sheila
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Julie W
sheila wrote:
I was one of the founding members, along with Tuckervill, of an
inclusive support group here in Little Rock. It has mostly been made up
of relaxed homeschoolers and unschoolers. One of the things have talked
about for years is having a"space" to hang out, having meetings in and
do activities that are not great for someone's home.
One of the other founding members of Live and Learn began working at an
after school care program at their church which had a lot of unused
space. She asked them if it could be rented and they were willing to
rent it at a very, very cheap price. We have one main room that was once
their sanctuary, a kitchen, den, 2 "classrooms" and use of the gym,
playground and grounds. We're there from 10ish to about 2:30 on Tuesdays
and Thursdays and we have a $20 a month fee. We decided not to be
affiliated with our support group, but most of the members of the
Homeschool Zone come from there. I think we have 15 - 20 families who pay.
I call it perpetual recess which is a title I stole from an article in HEM :
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/211/jfrecess.html
last year about a co-op in the northeast. Our initial idea was to have a
part-time "free-school" type of situation. We soon realized that in this
part of the country a freeschool was not gonna happen and its become
more like a very loosely run co-op. We've found that in this part of the
country even a loosely run, non-religious, non-corrosive, free-choice,
its-ok-to-hang-out-and-play-video-games-all-day co-op has a hard time
attracting members. Everyone is just too busy "homeschooling" and if
they are going to do something that might take time out of their "school
day" it had better fill some kind of educational need.
~meh~
So we have a weekly schedule that comes out via email. This week's
schedule looked like this:
10-? Music Morning (one of the moms brings her accordion and auto harp
and will play tunes for us to sing to. Yesterday it was Beatles songs
and then she began teaching another mom who to play the autoharp)
During this time "doll club" was happening and video games were being
played also.
There was also moms sitting around talking, Tuckervill was in town so it
was nice to sit and talk to her about the baby. We talked some abut the
funshop I'm gonna try and do at the Live and Learn conference. I think
the girls went outside at some point to ride scooters.
11:45 Lunch
12:45 Cartooning (I'm meeting with some kids and moms who want to work
on drawing cartoons. We're all working out of different books and off
and on I'll point out something, but its fun just to work with others)
during this time moms with younger kids went to the playground.
The rest of the day kids played and hung out. I know at some point there
were a few guys out front hacking and slashing with boffer swords. I
know they went to the gym for awhile.
Thursday is like this:
10ish Old Tyme show and tell (bring in antiques and heirlooms and talk
about them...this is facilitated by a 9yr old girl)
10:45 Digital scavenger hunt (this is being facilitated by an 11 yr
old. He is coming up with a list and we will break into groups with a
van and digital camera and go find what is on his list. Afterwards we
will come back and look through the pics to see who found what.)
11:45ish Lunch
1:00 Cheerleading (one of our moms does this and we have this group of
little girls who just adore it)
Most days have more in them. I like the lightly scheduled days, but a
good amount of members just won't come if there is nothing scheduled.
They miss the best days at the Zone because those days end up being so
much better.
Looks like fun, huh?
For us it is---we have all we need there in an endless supply of boys
(and some girls) who will hang out with Josh and play VG or boffer
swords. Sometimes he will get out Heroscape and play that. He does the
cartooning with me and if there is some type of theater thing (like
imporv) going on will join in those classes. The truth is it is more
stressful for me. I make the schulde and deal with the complaints that
there is not "anything I can't do at home. Why would I miss a day of
school to do something I can do at home with my kids?"---arrggghhh, then
plan something you find value in and see if anyone else wants to do it.
I really think that this would be the case among any group of folks who
have some very distinct differences in how they raise their children and
how they homeschool. Don't get me wrong, it is working, there is just
always a group of folks with in any homeschooling thing I've ever been
involved in who want so much but want everyone else to do the work.
~sheesh~
I also spend time running interference for Josh and the moms who have
problems with VG.
This was our 1st year and over the summer we will go to just Thursdays
and discuss what worked and what did not work this year. One thing that
I've noticed is that the child facilitated activities seem to be better
attended and enjoyed, I also have seen a few flop because the child
facilitating had no support from their parent.
We also have a lack of teens. I hope we can work on getting more
families with older kids involved next year.
--
Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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> " Our PerpetualSome of this is from a response last month:
> Recess thing is going to subscribe to some magazine"
>
> Can you tell me more about your perpetual recess thing? Do you own a
> building? Rent? How many times a week? Is it all unschoolers?
>
> Thanks!
> Sheila
>
I was one of the founding members, along with Tuckervill, of an
inclusive support group here in Little Rock. It has mostly been made up
of relaxed homeschoolers and unschoolers. One of the things have talked
about for years is having a"space" to hang out, having meetings in and
do activities that are not great for someone's home.
One of the other founding members of Live and Learn began working at an
after school care program at their church which had a lot of unused
space. She asked them if it could be rented and they were willing to
rent it at a very, very cheap price. We have one main room that was once
their sanctuary, a kitchen, den, 2 "classrooms" and use of the gym,
playground and grounds. We're there from 10ish to about 2:30 on Tuesdays
and Thursdays and we have a $20 a month fee. We decided not to be
affiliated with our support group, but most of the members of the
Homeschool Zone come from there. I think we have 15 - 20 families who pay.
I call it perpetual recess which is a title I stole from an article in HEM :
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/211/jfrecess.html
last year about a co-op in the northeast. Our initial idea was to have a
part-time "free-school" type of situation. We soon realized that in this
part of the country a freeschool was not gonna happen and its become
more like a very loosely run co-op. We've found that in this part of the
country even a loosely run, non-religious, non-corrosive, free-choice,
its-ok-to-hang-out-and-play-video-games-all-day co-op has a hard time
attracting members. Everyone is just too busy "homeschooling" and if
they are going to do something that might take time out of their "school
day" it had better fill some kind of educational need.
~meh~
So we have a weekly schedule that comes out via email. This week's
schedule looked like this:
10-? Music Morning (one of the moms brings her accordion and auto harp
and will play tunes for us to sing to. Yesterday it was Beatles songs
and then she began teaching another mom who to play the autoharp)
During this time "doll club" was happening and video games were being
played also.
There was also moms sitting around talking, Tuckervill was in town so it
was nice to sit and talk to her about the baby. We talked some abut the
funshop I'm gonna try and do at the Live and Learn conference. I think
the girls went outside at some point to ride scooters.
11:45 Lunch
12:45 Cartooning (I'm meeting with some kids and moms who want to work
on drawing cartoons. We're all working out of different books and off
and on I'll point out something, but its fun just to work with others)
during this time moms with younger kids went to the playground.
The rest of the day kids played and hung out. I know at some point there
were a few guys out front hacking and slashing with boffer swords. I
know they went to the gym for awhile.
Thursday is like this:
10ish Old Tyme show and tell (bring in antiques and heirlooms and talk
about them...this is facilitated by a 9yr old girl)
10:45 Digital scavenger hunt (this is being facilitated by an 11 yr
old. He is coming up with a list and we will break into groups with a
van and digital camera and go find what is on his list. Afterwards we
will come back and look through the pics to see who found what.)
11:45ish Lunch
1:00 Cheerleading (one of our moms does this and we have this group of
little girls who just adore it)
Most days have more in them. I like the lightly scheduled days, but a
good amount of members just won't come if there is nothing scheduled.
They miss the best days at the Zone because those days end up being so
much better.
Looks like fun, huh?
For us it is---we have all we need there in an endless supply of boys
(and some girls) who will hang out with Josh and play VG or boffer
swords. Sometimes he will get out Heroscape and play that. He does the
cartooning with me and if there is some type of theater thing (like
imporv) going on will join in those classes. The truth is it is more
stressful for me. I make the schulde and deal with the complaints that
there is not "anything I can't do at home. Why would I miss a day of
school to do something I can do at home with my kids?"---arrggghhh, then
plan something you find value in and see if anyone else wants to do it.
I really think that this would be the case among any group of folks who
have some very distinct differences in how they raise their children and
how they homeschool. Don't get me wrong, it is working, there is just
always a group of folks with in any homeschooling thing I've ever been
involved in who want so much but want everyone else to do the work.
~sheesh~
I also spend time running interference for Josh and the moms who have
problems with VG.
This was our 1st year and over the summer we will go to just Thursdays
and discuss what worked and what did not work this year. One thing that
I've noticed is that the child facilitated activities seem to be better
attended and enjoyed, I also have seen a few flop because the child
facilitating had no support from their parent.
We also have a lack of teens. I hope we can work on getting more
families with older kids involved next year.
--
Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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In a message dated 6/22/2005 12:58:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
jjjwoolfolk@... writes:
10ish Old Tyme show and tell (bring in antiques and heirlooms and talk
about them...this is facilitated by a 9yr old girl)
This sounds SO FUN.
I would love to listen or participate in such a thing.
Sandra
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jjjwoolfolk@... writes:
10ish Old Tyme show and tell (bring in antiques and heirlooms and talk
about them...this is facilitated by a 9yr old girl)
This sounds SO FUN.
I would love to listen or participate in such a thing.
Sandra
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Julie W
SandraDodd@... wrote:
theme to some other type of show and tell the next time.
--
Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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>It is fun. We've done it twice now. I think she's going to change the
> In a message dated 6/22/2005 12:58:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> jjjwoolfolk@... writes:
>
> 10ish Old Tyme show and tell (bring in antiques and heirlooms and talk
> about them...this is facilitated by a 9yr old girl)
>
>
> This sounds SO FUN.
> I would love to listen or participate in such a thing.
>
> Sandra
>
theme to some other type of show and tell the next time.
--
Julie W
http://jwoolfolk.typepad.com/theothermother/
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