Co-op/Program Opportunities

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

Opportunities are listed sequentially according to deadline or event.

Don't Miss the Downbeat!

Home school students can find challenge, music education and fun with the Youth Symphony of Kansas City. Auditions take place the week of May 12-17, 2008 at Rockhurst High School, 9301 State Line Road, KCMO. Now is the time to sign up and get an audition time.

There's an Orchestra that's right for every level:

String Orchestra

4th - 7th grades

Gail Rowland, Conductor

Symphonette Orchestra

5th - 9th grades

Joe Keeney, Conductor

Philharmonic Orchestra

7th - 12th grades

Mary Lou Jones, Conductor

Academy Orchestra

8th - 12th grades

Russ Berlin, Conductor

Symphony Orchestra

10th Grade - Age 21

Steven D. Davis, Conductor

To get an audition application and learn more, visit www.youthsymphonykc.org or send an e-mail to ysymph@crn.org.

 

Heartland Christian Academy is now enrolling students for the 2008-2009 academic school year. For over a decade, HCA has been an excellent weekly homeschool enrichment program. Classes are held on Tuesdays OR Thursdays for Kindergarten through 6th grade. Conveniently located at 83rd & Lamar, HCA offers a complete day of history, science, reader's theatre, seasonal parties, and PE. All classes are taught by certified, exceptionally creative, and godly teachers. Grade-level classrooms consist of 22 students or less. If you would like more information, please contact Molly Fisher at 913-341-5820 extension 812, or visit our website at  www.heartlandchurch.org/kids/hca

Discovery Homeschool Academy is now enrolling for the 2008-09 school year! We are a Christian based enrichment program for Kindergarten through seventh grade. Students are creatively challenged each Tuesday with hands-on activities in Art, PE, Music, Science, Computers, Spanish, and Social Studies. We have lots of special events such as PE field day, Grandparents Day, Music Performances, Art & Science Show and Kindergarten Graduation. We also have monthly field trips and offer the standardized testing at the end of the year. Please check us out at www.firstbaptistraytown.com under “schools”, e-mail us at discovery@firstbaptistraytown.com, or call 816-778-1139 for more information.

"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."

Now taking applications for the 2007-2008 school year. We offer Art, P.E., Spanish Club and Computer Science classes. Students K - 7 grades will enjoy two afternoons a month learning with friends. We also do field trips such as the Kemper Museum, private flight classes, Ernie Miller Nature Center, and much more.

We meet at Lenexa Christian Center, 17500 W. 87th St., Lenexa, KS.

Contact Mrs.Garrison - Director, at 913-433-4637.

 

Logos Christian Academy

Church of the Open Door

4800 S. 20th St. Trafficway

Leavenworth, Kansas

Logos Christian Academy is a group of families who have joined together to teach Biblical Worldview and writing to our high school age students (see www.cornerstonecurriculum.com/Curriculum/wvww/wvww1.htm). We would like to invite others to prayerfully consider our co-op. The Worldview curriculum was written for students in 10th-12th grades. We offer it to students aged 14-18. This coming year we are offering Year 1 of David Quine's 3-year curriculum.

David Quine wrote the Worldviews of the Western World curriculum for 3 reasons.

1) To Stand--to give our children the ability to stand against the thoughts and ideas of the secular culture. Ephesians 4:14-15

2) To Speak--to give our children an adequate and logical defense for the hope they have within them. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5; 1 Peter 3:15; 2 Corinthians 5:20

3) To Restore--to give our children the ability to take the truth of Christianity into the various disciplines. Isaiah 58:11-12

We meet Tues/Thurs from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Leavenworth. More information is available from John and Charlene Bauer at (913) 651-5012 or Greg and Catherine Sarensen at (913) 728-2626.