Co-op/Program Opportunities

NOTE: The MPE Board of Directors does not necessarily endorse any of the organizations or people offering these opportunities. 

The Midland Monarchs, an Approved High-School Baseball team through the Kansas State High School Activities Association, is looking to partner with home school families and their student athletes. Each year, we have a handful of home school student athletes participating in our program. The purpose of the Monarch baseball program is to develop young Christian men of character through the game of baseball. We believe that baseball contains fundamental principles, which provide tools for success in life. Our program will focus on teaching these baseball and life fundamentals. We will reach young men for God's Kingdom that could not be reached through other avenues (academics, arts, music, etc.)

Fall League September / October 2010 Tournament Schedules

Winter League November thru January 2010/2011

Practices Sunday, Monday, & Wednesdays Shawnee, KS

Program Outline:

Fall Baseball: As a coaching staff, we utilize the fall schedule to breakdown our defensive sets and strategies; and emphasize positional fundamental development, including pitching and catching. The fall schedule will be made up of 5 or 6 weekend tournaments, with 1-2 practices per week. The guys will continue to develop their relationships and enjoy fellowship with each other.

Winter Baseball: During the winter league, it's all about pitching/catching/hitting. We play one night a week, Sunday evenings for 12-weeks during the winter. The focus is developing our pitching staff, teaching the boys how to pitch, working on communication between catcher and pitcher, signs, game situations, etc. Hitting - we spend the entire sessions working on getting quality at bats, repetition in the batting cage and fundamental hitting approaches. We really break down pitching, hitting, and catching during the winter league.

If you are interested in having your son try-out for the Midland Monarchs - please contact Coach Shannan Nelson at 913.523.3364 or email him at skipper@midlandmonarchs.com.

 

"The Burr Oak City Library is a tiny public library in north central Kansas, run entirely by caring volunteers. Although we may be small, we have a great heart for homeschoolers and those who feel called to enrich their children’s lives through quality literature and educational resources.

Our library has been blessed by several recent grant awards, which have enabled us to purchase homeschool resources for our local patrons. We would like to offer them for checkout to ALL library users across the state through the Inter Library Loan (ILL) program.

Attached are two lists of items recently acquired as resources for homeschoolers. The “Literature List” consists of Readers and Read-Alouds (family reading participation) from Sonlight Curriculum®. These booklists are not unique to Sonlight but are classics used in many other popular homeschool curricula, including: Learning Language Arts Through Literature®, All Through the Ages®, Ambleside Online®, K-12®, Learning Adventures®, and Bob Jones®. We hope to add more of the higher-level readers this year.

Our “DVD/VHS List” includes many titles that you will not find in most public libraries. The science sets were chosen specifically to counteract popular evolutionary hypotheses with Creationist theory.

We are aware that the public library is a vital resource to homeschool families, whose resources are already strained after paying taxes towards the public library AND purchasing their own curriculum. WE WANT TO HELP!

WHERE……..is Burr Oak??

Never heard of Burr Oak? Imagine that! Burr Oak is in Jewell County, Kansas – 5 miles north of US Hwy. 36 on KS-28. The library is located in the historic old limestone schoolhouse at 776 Kansas in Burr Oak. Hours are 2-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (September through May) and 9 a.m.-12 noon Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (June through August). We’re open Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:00 year round.

If you are unable to visit our library, you may request any of the listed items through ILL at your own public library. Have your librarian contact Becky at 785-647-7541 or mcnichols@uscenter.net with your requests. They will be shipped by library rate mail within three business days (unless currently checked out). Checkout time of ILL materials is 4 weeks with the following limits:

5 books and/or 3 videos/CDs/DVDs per family per time

Please treat items carefully so they may have a long life and be enjoyed by many users.

We’re sorry, but we can’t fulfill long-distance requests by individuals; they must be processed through your local library."

Missouri Homeschool Cub Scout Pack 367 is back up and running! During the summer months we meet at Smithville Lake. We will be meeting in August at Maplewoods Community College on the first and third Wednesday afternoons from 2-3:30.

This homeschool Boy Scout Troop meets at Maplewoods Community College on Monday nights from September through May.  For more information please contact David Anderson at 816-679-6790 or at our new email address: cubpack367@gmail.com  Please do not contact the school.

For boys ages 11-18, we meet at Kansas City Christian School near 79th and Roe on Monday nights, 7 p.m.  The troop is made up of both homeschool boys and KCCS boys.

While earning merit badges, Troop 457 participates in year round camping, hiking, biking, swimming, canoeing and special field trips.  In June, the troop attended a week long camp at Quivira Scout Camp. In July, the boys enjoyed a canoe trip on the North Fork of the White River in south Missouri. 

In August, the troop traveled to the Johnson Shut Ins for their monthly campout. In the past year, 7 boys earned the Eagle Award.  If you would like to find out more about Troop 457, call Phil Starcke, Scoutmaster, at 816-363-3761, or Randy Makin, 913-381-3555. The leaders are committed to helping each boy grow in moral strength and Christian character. 

Life Academy for Homeschoolers is an academic program for homeschooled students, ages 5-10. Classes meet on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 11:45-3:00 at Fellowship Baptist Church in south Olathe. Students may attend one day or both. Monday classes include science, history/geography and Spanish, while Thursday classes include science, history/geography and fine arts. Students attending both days each week cover a full year's curriculum both in science and history, making the homeschooling parent's life a little bit easier!  We have just a small number of openings remaining for the younger class (5-7 year-olds), and a few remaining in the older class (8-10 year-olds) for the fall semester.  Please visit our website for more info: http://lifeacademyhomeschool.webnode.com.

 

 

Now enrolling for our 10th successful year of continual growth!   We hope you can join us each Tuesday from 9:00am to 3:00pm for a Christian-based hands-on enrichment program of excellence that compliments your homeschool curriculum.  

Students in Kindergarten through Eighth grade will make new friendships and enjoy classes in PE, Music, Art, Science, Spanish, Social Studies and Computers from September to May.  Our teachers have college degrees in their perspective fields and share their passion and expertise in creative activities.    We provide all the supplies, time, and energy for kids to experience art sculpting, building, singing, dissection & microscopes, chemistry labs, and much more.   Each month we incorporate great events including a Back-to-School Night, Fine Arts Programs, School Portraits, Holiday Class Parties, Grandparent's Day Program, Field Trips,  PE Field Day, Kindergarten Graduation, and more!  Enjoy a well deserved day for yourself while students discover, create, and engage in new projects, songs, and collaborative learning activities.  

For more information please e-mail Letricia or Anne at Discoveryhomeschool@gmail.com or call 816-778-1139.  Visit our website at www.firstbaptistraytown.com under "schools".  We welcome questions anytime and tours on Tuesdays.

 

Heartland Christian Academy (HCA), one of the pioneer homeschool programs in the Kansas City area, has NOT moved to Olathe, but will be staying at their present location of 8301 Lamar and is becoming a ministry of Vineyard Church of Overland Park. Come see why people as far away as Topeka, Peculiar and Spring Hill have participated in this excellent weekly program.

Your child’s class will learn history chronologically through hands-on projects and festivals as well as get their hearts pumping through games and start-up activities in PE. Reader’s theater will bring stories to life while teaching confidence presenting what’s been practiced. Science will also be taught in a memorable way—without you having to come up with all of the ingredients. Even as valuable as the academics, recess and class parties provide opportunities to connect, making friendships that carry on past the classroom.

Enrollment for new families began March 2. Please contact Molly Fisher at (913) 381-5577 ext 122 to set up a visit or for an enrollment handbook so you, too, can join this incredible community of homeschoolers. This one-day weekly program may be offered on two separate days depending on the enrollment.

 

Community Covenant Church in Lenexa is offering an Open Gym Day to the homeschooling community.  The facility has a indoor gym, youth room, sand volley, soccer field, and baseball field available. For the months following August,  we will be meeting the third Friday of every month from 2:45-4:45.  Please bring balls, games, skates, jump ropes, etc. This is a great time to make friends, fellowship, and let the kids get some exercise.  All ages are welcome. Contact Juliette Harris-Webster for more information.  913-631-6541 or juliettedhw@gmail.com