Bekah, Megan, Emily, Deborah and Erin were in attendance.
St. John Lutheran has given us verbal approval to use their facilities for our co-op!! We will be
filling out and turning in the required form for official approval by the committee.
With that under way, we are ready to provide an official registration for families wanting to join
the co-op for the Fall term. The form will be similar to the interest form, with a few added fields
needed:
• Contact information
• Names of students and their forms (grades)
• Nursery/Preschool students
• Special information parents may want teachers to know ( e.g. reading struggles, diagnoses,
allergies etc)
• A note somewhere about fees involved - can get an estimate for supplies from Emily,
perhaps, and need to decide how much we want to donate for the fall term to St. Johns
• Places where Mom’s can volunteer:
• Front Door/Hall Monitor (the doors will lock automatically, so this mom can help people get
in and out as needed as well as making sure students are supervised in the hallway)
• Set up/tear down team - (moving chairs tables where we want them, and then back again)
• Clean up team (paying special attention to trash needing to be taken out and making sure
bathrooms being in order)
• Room Mom (a mom who is not teaching assigned to a room to help students transition
from one class to another - we talked maybe leading some light stretching and making sure
kids are getting to the bathrooms and back)
• Nature study co-teacher
• Mom to lead our opening time (hymn, recitation, etc)
• Multiple moms for nursery/preschool room.
Registration will close August 15th. We don’t anticipate huge numbers, but we are somewhat
limited on space, therefore preference will be given to those who also filled out the interest
form.
We will have two more planning meetings: Fri. Aug 8 and Fri. Aug 22 at 2:00 at the playground
at St. John.
Co-op will officially begin Sept 12, but we would like to meet for a field trip on Sept 5th at the
Taubman for the Mo Willems exhibit. This will have a cost but will not be required. We need to
determine if there could be group or school pricing for this. We will start a new thread on the
forum for field trip opportunities.
After (or before?) the field trip on the 5th we would like to have an orientation/open house at St.
John for registered families. Come see the rooms, meet the teachers, and have a time to
discuss house rules and expectations. Maybe some tea and cookies too. Perhaps a good time
to create the name tags/lanyards we talked about.
Co-op Planning Meeting #2Tentative schedule for each co-op:
12:30-1:00 - arrival and set up
1:00 - 1:30 - opening session (prayer, scripture, hymn/folk, volunteer recitation time - for mom’s
too!)
1:35 - 2:20 - Class 1
2:20 - 2:25 - transition
2:25 - 3:10 - Class 2
3:10 - 3:15 - transition
3:15 - 4:00 - Class 3
4:00 - 4:30 - tear down/clean up
Classes offered for the Fall term are Shakespeare (Megan Saben, lead), Handicraft (Emily
Turner, lead), and Nature Study/Scouting (Erin Dodson, lead). Classes will be separated into
Form 1 (1st-3rd), Form 2 (4th-6th) and Form 3 and up (7th +). Classes will be adapted for each
Form as needed. Kindergartners may join in with Form 1 on nature study.
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For handicraft this terms students will be creating an embroidery stitch book (perhaps cross
stitch for Form 1). Emily will be ordering supplies. There will be a fee associated with this class
to pay for the supplies for your students.
We will be going one more week than originally planned to get 8 weeks in - finishing up Dec
19th.
Bekah will be compiling some photos of the potential rooms and posting them on the forum for
our consideration. We will need three classroom spaces, plus the community room for our
opening session, and a nursery/toddler space. The youth room and the Great Room are also
up for consideration for once a month folk dances (one of the “off” fridays can be used for this
instead of a field trip).
To discuss at the next planning meeting:
• A co-op name!
• An official schedule maybe with rooms assignments.
• A list of expectations or a Code of Conduct.
• Is one lead teacher for all 3 class periods too much for one teacher?
Thank you, Erin, you have a real talent for meeting notes. 😉
For information and pictures on our potential room options, read here. But come back and discuss here. 😉
@rsealey96 I like how you have the rooms assigned. I think the Youth Room would be nice for our gathering time first thing. The only potential downside I see to that is if we have folks running behind and the door is locked. The nice thing about the community room is you can kind of watch from the window. I’m sure we could work around that though.
@rsealey96 I think we can give it a day or two and then just go ahead and send in the form. Is there any reason we can’t request both the Communtuy Room and the Youth Room and then decide later how to use them?
I think the Form 2 room will need another table with chairs, but the rest should be outfitted pretty well.
@erin-d You're right, there's no reason not to request both the Community and Youth rooms. I'm hoping the Form 2 room can be cleared of the couch and chairs and it won't feel tight with tables. That's my main concern with that room. Maybe we can get away with one table perpendicular to the white board? That would be seating for 6-8, and no one has their back to the board? I would guess it is a similar size to the next door room that had two tables and didn't feel cramped.
@erin-d I would prefer not to request both rooms because we originally told Dennis we would only need 3 rooms and a nursery. I don't want to keep adding extra rooms that might not be used. Our janitor is just one older lady and I don't want to add rooms to clean that aren't actually used. I would prefer requesting the community room and see if that works for us. If we find that it doesn't work well, we can fill out a new form for the rooms we would prefer to use. Dennis sounded like that is what he would prefer. As I think about the youth room, I realize that there is a pool table that could be a distraction and we would need to be extremely careful that no one disturbs the sound board. I like us being all on one floor for security reasons as well.
We sent in the room request! We kept everyone in the upstairs rooms for co-op, and we'll use a separate room request for the once monthly folk dance group.
Sorry I’m late in replying! That makes perfect sense to keep it all on one floor if possible for co-op and to not have to request extra right out of the gate.
