Workshops:
In addition to being your local third option accountability association, Faithful Scholars will hold five to ten workshops each year according to our members' requests, interests and needs. 2008-2009 topics include:
| Planning Retreat | August 21st-22nd 2009, 5pm - 5pm | The Oratory, Charlotte Avenue, Rock Hill |
| Kindergarten 101 | August 25th 2008, 7pm | Starbuck's on Celanese, Rock Hill |
| Help! I’m a First Time Homeschooler! | September 8th 2008, 7pm | Starbucks on Celanese, Rock Hill |
| It's Elementary, My Dear | September 22nd 2008, 7pm | Starbucks on Celanese, Rock Hill |
| Sowing for the Harvest | September 29th 2008, 7pm | St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Munn Road, Fort Mill |
| High School Need-to-Knows | November 3rd 2008, 7pm | St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Munn Road, Fort Mill |
| Middle School Need-to-Knows | November 17th 2008, 7pm | Starbuck's on Celanese, Rock Hill |
| Middle School, You Can Do It! | February 9th 2009, 7pm | ***Combined with November 17th workshop*** |
| Eye Catching Portfolios and College Applications | April 13th 2009, 7pm | St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Munn Road, Fort Mill |
| Wrap It Up Retreat | June 5th-6th 2009, 5pm - 5pm | The Oratory, Charlotte Avenue, Rock Hill |
Go to our Workshop Registration area to sign up for the workshops you would like to attend. We will accept members only until one month prior to each event at which time we will open registration to non-members for a fee of $15.00. Planning and Wrap Up Retreat evenings not applicable but day sessions are open to non-members for free.
PLANNING RETREAT
Join other local homeschooling moms for a fun evening of relaxation before the busy year sets in. Durng the day we will focus our time on planning for the upcoming year. Bring your box of curriculum, daily planner, calendar, journals, favorite organizational forms, etc. and organize your ideas and goals in writing. Gift other moms with wisdom gained over the years and glean wisdom from more experienced moms. Our homeschooling journey becomes deeper and sweeter when shared with friends. This will be evenings of leisure and days of work. A time to share in this Great Work of raising up the next generation with love, training and education for Christ. These evenings are for Faithful Scholars members only. Cost: $15.00 per night. Limit 16 moms. The work days are open and free to all homeschoolers regardless of membership.
KINDERGARTEN 101
Kindergarten is an exciting year. Your five or six year old is finally ready to be formally home schooled. You, the parent-teacher, have been awaiting this moment eagerly if you’ve always planned to homeschool, or possibly with a bit of trepidation, wondering if you might ruin your child’s learning ability forever. You won’t, you can’t! Come listen to veteran homeschool moms discuss the various methods of teaching kindergarten, ask your questions that have been accumulating over the past months/years and take away a quiet confidence and a gentle peace about this fun and precious first year of ‘real school’.
HELP, I’M A FIRST TIME HOMESCHOOLER!
We’ve all started somewhere, but jumping into homeschooling after your child has attended public or private school can be intimidating. What do you teach? How do you teach? Can you teach? Can you teach as well as their previous professional teachers? On and on the doubts run rampart over your desire to homeschool. Dulling your call to make a difference in your child’s life through home centered education. The world of difference can be gained by talking to other moms who have gone before you and are now homeschooling with confidence. Allow us to gather them together for you to talk with in a relaxed, welcoming environment where every question will find several answers. There is not one best way to homeschool. Only one best way for each of your children. Let us help you discover these 'bests'.
IT’S ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
As with everything, there are easier ways to do all things and homeschoolers are famous for re-inventing the wheel with the upgrades their families need. This workshop is geared for experienced and inexperienced homeschoolers trying to find their way among the many choices regarding teaching style, curriculum, schedules and more. We will answer questions like, ‘What is a portfolio and how do I create one?, ‘Do I write down everything we do?’, ‘Exactly what constitutes ‘school’?’, Is a relaxed homeschooler effective? What about a vigorous homeschooler?’, What do I do with my pre-schoolers during lessons?’ and more. Find three thousand answers to your one thousand questions at this roundtable discussion. We most often learn these through experience, come gain from the experience of an array of veteran homeschoolers.
SOWING FOR THE HARVEST
These precious early years are when our children’s minds, wills and spirits are most maleable. Those families that we all admire knew this and took advantage by laboring early in order to reap the sweet harvest later. We all understand and appreciate the hard work of these outstanding families but wish and seek for some magical system to take the place of rolling up our sleeves and setting in to work. This presentation will take a look at immediate and long term goals, setting them and working towards them, as well as practical ideas to achieve the family dynamic of your dreams.
HIGH SCHOOL NEED TO KNOWS
You have stayed the course and completed the middle school years and you now find yourself with recurring Next-Level Fears. What do you need to offer your highschooler? Are you equipped to do this? Highschool was not so easy and fun the first time, do you want to do it a second time? We will help you understand the state’s requirements and provide you with a road map to navigate by on this next leg of the journey. Grading, transcripts, testing, electives and a four-year academic plan will be explained and discussed in detail. Come discover the difference of homeschooling towards highschool vs. homeschooling towards college and the excitement and wonder of the home school high school years.
MIDDLE SCHOOL NEED-TO-KNOWS
Upon enterning a new land, it is good to know the laws and ways of the country. Legally, no more is required during the middle school years. However, lessons become more complex and your commitment must deepen. The daily issues you will run into can become more intense. Secular school appears to be a wonderful option right now, but deep down a tiny voice reminds you that you equipped for all things He calls you to. These trembles and misgivings are normal and natural, but not to be given over to unless God calls you elsewhere. Learn about routines and resources that have made these years run smoothly for the families gone before you and the humour that must preside in your heart during these days as your little ones begin discovering who they are and what independent learning and work ehtic mean.
MIDDLE SCHOOL, YOU CAN DO IT!
Many of your friends have placed their children into school due to the fear of the approaching high school years. You are nervous and questioning your common sense while trying to explain your purpose to lonely hormonal children. Come listen to families who have utilized the school system for these same reasons. The reasons that seemed so strange two years ago but which now seem to make perfect sense as you can fully appreciate the rational and temptation. Still, you want to homeschool for 'just one more year'. Do you have the grit? What is the grit? Where do you get the grit? Come listen to and pose questions to families who have successfully homeschooled through middle school. Learn about the grit they found indespensible and why. Come quench your fears and shore up your commitment by being bolstered and encouraged through an evening of learning, sharing, ingenuity, commitment and humour.
EYE CATCHING PORTFOLIOS AND COLLEGE APPLICATIONS
You know how wonderful your highschooler is but how can colleges discover his/her greatness? Transcripts are great tools but often offer only a narrow glimpse of a child. Your child deserves more! Come and learn what to include in a portfolio and how to build successful college applications. Scholarships and other hidden treasures will be discussed. Don’t let your years of hard work go unrewarded if college is your child's next step in life. Pick up tips for guiding your child through high school along a path that will make him stand out. This workshop is recommended for upcoming highschoolers and their parents at the beginning stages of creating a portfolio.
WRAP IT UP RETREAT
More fun time to unwind, relax a bit and then a return to our focus. We will celebrate completion of another year well, or simply the completiion of a year. We will celebrate being homeschool moms and enjoy an overnight retreat at a well kept Rock Hill get away. The evenings will be quiet conversations, laughter and rejuvination. The days will be a time to complete the details of your home school year. Bring your portfolios, daily records, progress reports, favorite forms and all of the odds and ends yet to be sorted and organized in order to wrap up your school year. Gift and glean wisdom to and from other moms working near you. Encourage one another on a race well run. Educate one another on things that work well in your record keeping and planning. Excite one another to relax into the slow-season-of-summer in anticipation of the go-go-go season that will follow.
Ideas spread through conversation. Conversation produces civilization. And the laughter of mothers tie it all together. This will be a time of liesurely evenings full of giggles and chatter and days of working toward compliance goals. Together we can abundantly fulfill our desire to continue and improving as we grow. The evening retreat is open to Faithful Scholars members only at a cost of $15.00 per night. Limit 16 moms. Days will become 'workshop' time, open to all local homeschoolers regardless of membership. Free.