WEC Fall 2014 week 1~ homeschool coops through the years

      Today we began our fall semester which will last 10 weeks and meets every Friday. I have been apart of this coop since my oldest, who graduated highschool this year, was in kindergarten. Most of my children having been going here since the womb and today is our first day for the 2014-2015 school year.
       I am teaching three classes which I have been teaching as an average for many years. I am teaching Draw Write Now, Drawing Through History, and Answers in Genesis DVD series The Body of Evidence. I also offer the Scholastic Book Club to the co-op which I have been going for a few years now. My sons Joe and Daniel are going early before us to help the coop set up.
  There are around 47 families that meet together at this time. Since it is a coop mothers stay and teach, clean, or organize. Parents must stay all day and it is a Christian coop.I know the founder and original board which families no longer participate but the torch has been passed on.
       Along the years I have been involved with a few coops along with this one. One was a small beginning coop for families on the waiting list for WEC called Monroeville Coop, writing coop called PEACH, and a Tapestry of Grace coop. I also was involved with a homeschool moms support group called PESHA or Pittsburgh East Homeschool Association. They met monthly and had children programs while the mother had monthly support topics. I would love to start something like that as I have a strong desire to support homeschooling mothers in there highcalling which is the only reason I blog and enjoy visiting other homeschool blogs.
       Coops have been a blessing through the years and at times they have been added pressure. Every year is new and each season changes so we take it semester by semester and keep it in prayer.Maybe someday I will begin to blog about how the coops were organized just in case someone wants to start one.