Lindie and Brevin transferred to a new school a week ago. It's a co-op school with about 100 students. The name of the school is ACE--Alternative Co-op Education. Each class is a combination class. Lindie is in a K-1-2 combo class and Brevin is in a 3-4 combo class. The teachers are amazing and my kids have transitioned so well! I think having music playing as the kids line up in the morning helps--how can you not be happy when "Lollipop, Lollipop" is playing in the background as you start your day? The music changes everyday. I love it!
What I love the most about this school is the homework. No worksheets! Each week of the month is designated towards reading, writing, math or project week. Lindie just finished her project week. She got to choose whatever she wanted to do and she chose to make sugar cookies! She wrote out the recipe, made the grocery list, went grocery shopping, made the cookies and I photographed each step of the way. She made a book out of the pictures and presented it to her class--complete with the cookies! She came home BEAMING! I can't think of a better way to teach kids self-esteem. Brevin just finished his reading week and he had to write down everything he read that week. Quite a varied list. And now we are beginning our Fall Break of no school!!! Yippee!!
We close escrow on our house on October 14th. The owners move out October 25th and in exchange are leaving behind their 5 barstools to go around the kitchen counter and their beautiful area rug for the family room. Looks like we get to come up with real furniture--non-gifted couches!! Wow. I really feel grown up now. We move in on Halloween!
The great thing is our new house is only 5 minutes from ACE. It really is the PLACE.
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Hooray! I'm glad things are going so well. And no worksheets--brilliant!
That sounds fabulous! I'm hoping that wherever we move next will have more options like this.
That sounds like such an awesome school! Do they have a website I can check out? We don't like our public school options here in Sacramento, so we are homeschooling our kids for now. But this co-op school sounds pretty neat!!!
Congratulations! Sounds like everything is lining up just right.
Buff, do you still have that couch?? Just wondering (not that I want it back). Congrats on the new house. The school sounds wonderful. Samantha
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