Family Foundations Homeschool Coop

09/26/2024

Teen Game Club-Team Building and More!

Join other homeschool TEENS for Game Club in Gilford nh.
Our teens will be participating in a TEEN Homeschool game club for ages 13 and up, mature 12 year olds are invited as well. They are not playing board games. The teen librarian will be planning and implementing games for the teens. Games will be a mix and include collaborative group games. The teen librarian at the Gilford library is amazing with the kids!

Game Club will be held at the Gilford library on the following Thursdays from 12pm to 130pm,
October: 3, 17, 31
November: 7, 21
December: 5, 19

02/07/2024

Everyone
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! This bill would make NH the most oppressive state for home education!! Send an email to the House Education Committee or attend to OPPOSE this outrageous bill! if you can't attend in person, email your testimony to the entire House Education Committee at [email protected]

Do you have testimony or an email ready for HB 1610, the bill that mandates ALL students, including homeschoolers, participate in public school statewide testing?
HB 1610 text: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/pdf.aspx...
TIPS:
clearly state your name and town (so they know you live in NH)
clearly state you are a traditional, unfunded home ed family (RSA 193-A), the distinction is at the heart of this bill
say why you OPPOSE this bill -- maybe your child has test anxiety, maybe you fundamentally oppose teaching to a test, maybe you don't think high-stakes testing is useful to learning, maybe you think the state and local schools have no authority of students who don't receive taxpayer funding
ask them to vote against HB 1610, the term is "Inexpedient to Legislate" or "ITL"
keep your remarks to 3 minutes which is roughly one page of written comments, practice reading it a couple times so you're comfortable
if you can't attend in person, email your testimony to the entire House Education Committee at [email protected]
state that your testimony should be added to the public record
use the House online portal to sign in OPPOSED to HB 1610 if you're unable to attend, and send your testimony that way if you don't email it https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/.../remotet.../default.aspx
arrange childcare if you have littles
if you have older kids, consider having them prepare brief remarks, too
carpool with friends
tell your homeschool friends about this important bill
be ready as we'll have minimal advance notice for the public hearing date and time
More tips are on our video so you can be an effective advocate for home ed freedom. https://youtu.be/GaQMif0GR_o

In this video, we give a "tour" of the NH General Court website. We show how to find your legislators, track legislation, and understand the House and Senate...

02/07/2024

Everyone
YOU ARE NEEDED! This bill would make NH the most oppressive state for home education!! Send an email to the House Education Committee or attend to OPPOSE this outrageous bill! if you can't attend in person, email your testimony to the entire House Education Committee at [email protected]

Do you have testimony or an email ready for HB 1610, the bill that mandates ALL students, including homeschoolers, participate in public school statewide testing?
HB 1610 text: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/pdf.aspx...
TIPS:
clearly state your name and town (so they know you live in NH)
clearly state you are a traditional, unfunded home ed family (RSA 193-A), the distinction is at the heart of this bill
say why you OPPOSE this bill -- maybe your child has test anxiety, maybe you fundamentally oppose teaching to a test, maybe you don't think high-stakes testing is useful to learning, maybe you think the state and local schools have no authority of students who don't receive taxpayer funding
ask them to vote against HB 1610, the term is "Inexpedient to Legislate" or "ITL"
keep your remarks to 3 minutes which is roughly one page of written comments, practice reading it a couple times so you're comfortable
if you can't attend in person, email your testimony to the entire House Education Committee at [email protected]
state that your testimony should be added to the public record
use the House online portal to sign in OPPOSED to HB 1610 if you're unable to attend, and send your testimony that way if you don't email it https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/.../remotet.../default.aspx
arrange childcare if you have littles
if you have older kids, consider having them prepare brief remarks, too
carpool with friends
tell your homeschool friends about this important bill
be ready as we'll have minimal advance notice for the public hearing date and time
More tips are on our video so you can be an effective advocate for home ed freedom. https://youtu.be/GaQMif0GR_o

In this video, we give a "tour" of the NH General Court website. We show how to find your legislators, track legislation, and understand the House and Senate...

01/16/2024

Right now media is a fantastic homeschooling resource. We especially love drive through history which is available on here including their new series, Bible back roads which is the entire New Testament. Here's your chance to try right now media for free!
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Our church would like to offer you FREE access to RightNow Media—the world’s largest streaming library of video Bible study resources. This extensive library has more than 25,000 bible study videos and trainings. They can be used in a group or for personal devotions. Many of the series even include free guides.

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There is even a library just for kids with over 2,000 safe, entertaining videos. RightNow Media has a free app that’s available on all major streaming devices so you can access content anywhere, anytime.

To get started go here: https://app.rightnowmedia.org/join/cbccnh

01/01/2024

great message to start the new year!

Why do 80–90% of those making a decision for Christ fall away from the faith? What is the biblical principle that Spurgeon, Wesley, Whitefield, etc., used to reach the lost? Why has the Church neglected it? Don’t let anything stop you from listening to this incredible teaching.

11/14/2023

TEEN Game Club, ages 13 & up, Gilford nh starting Thurs Dec 7th!!

Family foundations co-op doors are permanently closed, but our teens will be participating in a TEEN Homeschool game club for ages 13 and up, that will be held at the Gilford library on Thursdays from 12pm to 130pm, for socialization and meeting new friends, we'd like to meet some new families; this game club will be open to all area homeschoolers. Games will be a mix and include collaborative group games. The teen librarian will be planning and implementing games for the teens ea week, he was amazing in the past and we are very excited to be joining in again!

09/22/2023

Great start to the semester

06/16/2023

Sign ups are CLOSED for fall 2023. We will be considering a limited number of new members in certain grades/ages for our winter semester which starts in January. Sign ups will be in early December; reach out sometime in Nov if you are interseted. For now please read over our handbook to see what our expectations are for parents and students and to see if we are a good fit for your family :)

05/04/2023

We have added a class (likely nature study) for 2nd period for prek-3rd, so click on the schedule to see the changes, and open arts and crafts and games has been moved to 3rd period for those who stay with older siblings who will be in game club.

Age / Grade CLASS ONE – 10:00AM – 11:00AM Cost: Student Limit Teacher Teacher’s Assistant PREK–3RD STORYTIME AND CRAFTS: This will be a spirit led class. Children will love learning about biblical values in a fun, heartwarming way. Stories will focus on kindness, being brave, having...

04/22/2023

10/07/2022

FAMILY FOUNDATIONS CO-OP WILL BE HAVING A VISITORS DAY ON OCTOBER 27TH FROM 1130AM TO 2PM FOR NEW MEMBERS!

We will be taking families with children in grades 1-12 for our SPRING 2023 semester.

This is our costume party day, so families can join us for game time during third class time and then join us for refreshments after. Just keep costumes fun, NO SCARY, BLOODY, IMMODEST COSTUMES PLEASE!

We currently meet at Grace Capital Church in Pembroke on Thursdays, from after Labor Day until the 2nd week in May.

If you are interested, message us your email, and ages & grades of your kids and we will send more info. If you have questions about us please read the attached Handbook of rules and information to learn more about us. Message us if you have questions that are not answered in the handbook.
We are a co-op that meets for socialization and enrichment. Sign ups for spring semester will be in early DECEMBER. There will be no late sign ups! SPACE IS LIMITED!

FOUNDATIONS HOMESCHOOL CO-OP HANDBOOK (REVISED SEPT 2022) Welcome to Foundations Homeschool Co-op! The vision of those starting Foundations Homeschool Co-op was to create a place where families could work together to enhance the education of their school-aged children. Preschool classes were ad...