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This year, we learned the power of synergy – the power of efforts put together to produce a common goal.

We set up what you call a “Cooperative” where homeschool moms can bring their kids together and do team teaching. We set it up for the purpose of letting the kids do things together and learn other Life Skills such as the discipline of time management, speech & presentation skills, team work. It was fun and the kid’s enthusiasm soared high when they saw “classmates” of the same level.

We meet every Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays, 10 am to 5 pm in one place. Two hours were given for each subject. One mom teaches Math, the other Science, and so on. We designated Mondays and Wednesdays as the kid’s time for homework and research.

This way, each mom gets to focus on one subject area and maximize her time by teaching other kids also.

The whole idea of Cooperative started two years ago when we had arts and sports together. We got one teacher to do art classes in Alabang. Last year, we got Mad Science to come once a week to do hands-on demonstration of science experiments.

All it takes is to come together with just a few families and agree on the topics and schedule of lessons. Most curriculums already have a prepared lesson plan so all you just need is to break it down to weekly goals.

For more info on Homeschooling, tune in to my future blogs.