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We meet one morning a week for 18 weeks during the school year:  We also have a few parties and a few field trips throughout the year.

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$15 per family plus $5 per child 2 and up.  A few classes have an additional supply fee or required textbook.  This is your cost for the whole year.

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To start with, the web site and all the organization that comes with it costs $9.00 per family.  The remaining $6.00 is to cover administrative costs (including class nametags) and to offset some of the costs involved with our Kick-off Party, New Year's Party, and Showcase.

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Our co-op opperates on a $5 per student fee.  This fee creates a fund that is shared across the classes to reimburse teachers for basic suppies that they purchase.  The website accounting program is only set up to assign a fee per class; not per student.  We are charging $5 for each student's first class of the day as an easy way to work with the program.

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Yes!  We are excite to say we have a fully developed schedule for students in every grade.  We offer a variety of classes, leadership opportunities, social experiences, and a graduation ceremony!  Due to our limited number of weeks, we cannot offer courses that earn complete credits.  But we can offer educational experiences to fill out your credits.  For example, science labs, literature studies, foreign language practice, art & music experiences, and other electives.  As a parent, you are still in full control of your students course work and method of grading.  We just come along side you and offer courses you may not be confident to teach and give your student opportunities for group experiences.   

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One of our goals is to develop deeper relationships.  That happens best by spending time together and sharing experiences.  If you choose to join our co-op you are choosing to spend the morning with us.  We recognize, however, that high schoolers have heavy workloads.  They can pick classes that are most beneficial for them and then pick study hall to get homework done while at co-op.

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We are a low-cost, high involvement co-op.  One parent is expected to teach or help throughout the co-op morning.  We will work with you to find a place where you can serve and use your gifts and talents.  If possible, we also love when the second parent can drop in to teach one class.  Often they will share their profession with the students but it could be a hobby or interest.

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For every block you teach you get a block free.  If you do not teach a class we try to give you a break period but that doesn’t always happen. Preschool and K1 teachers get a break when their students go to PE.  We try not to rotate teachers in the nursery areas because that throws off some children.  Nursery workers are welcome to take breaks as longs as there are two moms in the room.  Please work together in Nursery A, B, and C and flex as needed.

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We ask that every teacher be as creative as possible to help keep our overall costs low.  While we love free classes, we understand that some classes require materials to be purchased.  We expect most classes to cost between $0 - $25 dollars.  If you feel you need to spend more, please get approval in advance.  To be reimbursed, submit organized receipts, with your name and address, to Beth Ann Pelletier BEFORE the end of the semester.  You will then receive a check in the mail from the church. 

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Although most of our time and efforts go into our co-op classes we desire more fellowship times.  Often families informally meet up or fellowship during church events.  But this year we are trying to plan one parent event a month.  

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Again, we are a low cost, high involvement co-op; therefore, we require one parent to teach or help in a significant way.  In the past we have allowed families to participate in more than one co-op if they felt they could meet the requirements of both groups.  We have noticed, however, that the level of commitment is less with those families.  So we are now highly discouraging families from participating in more than one group.  First, we need your active involvement if you choose to join us.  Second, we are approaching full capacity and are having to turn away families who have no other community.  This is hard to do when we know that some people are in multiple groups.  We recommend that you prayerfully consider your family's time and needs and plant yourself where you best fit.  

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No.  And for further information, all our nursery through 1st grade classrooms have a jr. sized bathroom attached to the room.

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Yes, GraceLife Baptist Church has a Facebook group which was created to help connect the homeschooling families of our church.  It is called GraceLife Homeschoolers and is open to any member of GraceLife Baptist Church,as well as, any current or past members of Arrows Homeschool Co-op.  Due to the fact that we have members in the Facebook group who are not currently enrolled in co-op, and we have co-op families who are not on Facebook, please use the Facebook group for general homeschooling information.  All co-op specific items, including class assignments and pictures, should go through the Arrows website.