Kansas City Area Homeschool Co-ops, Drop-offs, & Hybrids

Have you just moved to the area? Considering moving to Kansas City, the best place in the world to homeschool? Lived here your whole life? New to homeschooling entirely?

Is your homeschool curriculum religious, secular, eclectic, rigorous, relaxed, or a mixture of a few of those? Whatever — you're in the right place!

I've curated a popular post full of Kansas City homeschool co-ops (parents pitch in), drop-offs (parents get a break), and hybrids (a couple of days at a school building or other place to learn, and the rest of the work is done during the week at home)! 

Please check out the list and details for almost 60 Kansas City Area Homeschool Co-ops, Drop-offs, & Hybrids over at my main site, Homeschooling in Kansas City.

See you over there!

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106+ Co-op Class Ideas

 

Homeschooling moms have brains full of so many things that it can be difficult to think of what to teach in a co-op situation. 

It is my hope that this list of co-op classes will be inspirational 🙏

GENERAL ELECTIVES

1.     ACT/SAT Prep

2.     American Government (high school)

3.     Art (all grades)

4.     Business Law (high school)

5.     Business Management (high school)

6.     Catholic Schoolhouse (K-2)

7.     Choir

8.     Classical Enrichment

9.     Cooking/Baking (2 hours) (Advanced or Basic)

10.  Consumer Education (high school)

11.  Debate (middle and high school)

12.  Drama (all grades) (one semester)

13.  Drawing (middle and high school)

14.  Emotional Health Class

15.  Handicrafts (7 Benefits of Homeschool Handicrafts: Handicrafts, part 1 — Simply Charlotte Mason)

16.  Health and Nutrition (one semester)

17.  Health for the Whole Person (high school). High School Health for the Whole Person - 7sistershomeschool.com

18.  Hospitality (7^th through 12^th) (one semester) 

19.  How Media Influenced the 20th Century

20.  Improv 

21.  Leadership

22.  Liberty, Justice and Economics (5^th through 8^th) 

23.  Logic (and Critical Thinking; Informal) (one semester)

24.  Medieval Projects (one semester)

25.  Morning Basket

26.  Music and Movement (PreK through elementary)

27.  Music Appreciation

28.  Photography (middle and high school)

29.  Physical Education (all grades)

30.  School Newspaper Class (published monthly)

31.  Sociology (high school)

32.  Study Skills (middle and high school) (one or two semesters). Resources were: (first semester) Study Smarter, Not Harder and (second semester) What Color is Your Parachute for Teens

33.  Theology of the Body for Teens (middle school through high school; two-hour class one day or one hour each Monday/Wednesday)

34.  Yearbook Class 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

35.  American Sign Language

36.  French

37.  Latin (First Form)

38.  Latin (Henle)

39.  Spanish (all grades) 

GEOGRAPHY

40.  American Geography (all ages).

41.  World Geography 7-12  

HISTORY (also includes some Literature, Philosophy, Fine Arts)

42.  American History (middle school)

43.  American History (high school) 

44.  Ancient/Literature

45.  Art History

46.  Church History

47.  Greek History/Literature 

48.  Egyptian Mummification (one semester; middle school) 

49.  History and Philosophy of the Western World (7 Sisters Homeschool)

50.  History of Fine Arts (middle and high school) (one semester) 

51.  Medieval History/Literature 

52.  Missouri 

53.  Modern World History (7^th through 12^th)

54.  Roman History/Literature 

LANGUAGE ARTS (some Literature combined with HISTORY)

55.  Book Discussion/Book Club

56.  Creative Writing (all grades) (one semester)

57.  English

58.  English Grammar and Composition (high school)

59.  Fairy Tales (K-1^st)

60.  Film as Literature (high school)

61.  Great American Short Stories (high school)

62.  Great Books. Books can be acquired on Amazon, ABE Books, ThriftBooks, eBay, etc. (Sample lesson plans for Series 6-8 on the Homeschool-Life website). Can be paired with Art with younger grades into one class.

63.  IEW Writing 

64.  Letter of the Week (preK-1)

65.  Literature, American (high school)

66.  Literature, World (high school)

67.  Modern Literature/History

68.  Phonics/Reading

69.  Socratic Book Club (middle and high school) (one semester) 

70.  Speech (one semester). 7 Sisters Homeschool has a good program.

71.  Storytime (preK)

72.  World Literature (Seton, Memoria Press, etc.) 

MATH (middle/high school classes not generally taught at co-op anymore)

73.  Accounting

74.  Algebra

75.  Build a Business (5-8; high school) (one semester) 

76.  Economics (high school)

77.  Geometry

78.  Personal Finance (high school; Dave Ramsey) 

RELIGION/VIRTUES

79.  Apologetics/Sacraments (high school)

80.  Bible History and Catechism (1^st through 4^th)

81.  Bible Timeline (high school) 

82.  Book of Virtues (Based on The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett … huge book and could cover all 10 virtues in stories and activities over a year. Book of Virtues - Shiver Academy)

83.  Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

84.  Faith and Morality 

85.  Intro to Catholicism 

86.  Lessons with Father Mike (high school) (one semester) 

87.  Little Flowers 

88.  Religion

89.  Saints 

90.  Understanding Scripture  

SCIENCE

91.  Astronomy

92.  Biology (middle school)

93.  Chemistry (high school)

94.  General Science (Apologia)

95.  Human Anatomy and Physiology (high school)

96.  Life Science (CHC) (optional workbook and lab manual) (7^th grade)

97.  Physical Science (middle school)

98.  Physics (high school)

99.  Psychology (high school)

100.         Science Experiments

101.         Science Lab  

STEM

102.         Engineering, Introduction to (one semester)

103.         LEGO Robotics (one semester)

104.         Math Games

105.         Project-Based Learning (create a zoo, build a city, etc.)

106.         STEM Projects (all grades)

 More ideas!

Homeschool Co-op Class Ideas- [Over 50 Classes] Elementary to High School (rookiemoms.com)

The Ultimate List of Homeschool Co-op Class Ideas - Walking by the Way

100+ Homeschool Co-op Class Ideas – Line upon Line Learning (rebeccareid.com)

The Unlikely Homeschool: Mega List of Homeschool Co-op Class Ideas (sign up to get it by email)

150+ Excellent Topic Ideas for Your Homeschool Co-op Classes (reallifeathome.com)

Homeschool Co-op Class Ideas ~ The Ultimate List! - Teach Beside Me

Junior Great Books Table of Contents and Overlap in Stories

We discovered Junior Great Books when my daughter Callie took a homeschool co-op course around 5th grade. Now I'm in love with them and try to buy up all of them. Some of them we consume and are not in love with, so we pass them on. Some we save and I hope to teach my own Junior Great Books class at the co-op someday :-) Here you can find the Table of Contents for the books we have read:

Series 2, First Semester (1992) (selling in upcoming homeschool used book sale)

The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter

How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling

Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath by A.A. Milne

Arap Sang and the Cranes (African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman)

Blue Moose by Daniel Manus Pinkwater