New Family Info Meeting on June 16th!

For those not able to make the last one, we are having another new family information meeting at the Edmond Library on Monday, June 16th @ 7:00 p.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information or questions, please email EdmondWCA@gmail.com or call 405-315-1056.

New Tuition Waiver Policy

Many of our participating families make financial sacrifices in order to pay tuition. Because of this, we strive to keep our prices as low as possible. We also offer parents the option to lower the cost of participation through tutoring and other service opportunities.

Each year we prepare our budget in order to determine tuition based on the expected number of families and students participating. We do not factor tuition assistance into our budget because we recognize that many of our families are on a limited income. Despite this, we have been able to bless some of our member families in previous years because of increased enrollment and because some of our expenses were less than anticipated.

In order to ensure that we have the financial resources each year to meet the obligations WCA has towards its enrolled students and our host facility, we are making the scholarship process more formal than it has been in the past. Each family that would like to request a full or partial scholarship must fill out a WCA Tuition Waiver Application (see link on top left corner of the website under "Paperwork") and submit it to edmondwca@gmail.com. Scholarships will be awarded as funds become available, and preference will be given to families that have a parent actively serving as a tutor or other service positions.

If you would like to pledge financial assistance to help families in our group who may benefit from a Tuition Waiver, please email me at edmondwca@gmail.com. Any income allocated to the Scholarship Fund will only be used for that purpose. 

New Family Information Meeting on May 5th

World View Christian Academy

Homeschool Cooperative Education

New Family Information Meeting

Monday, May 5th

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Edmond Public Library, Room B

This will be primarily a meeting for parents to provide information about our group and plans for the upcoming school year. However, children are welcome to attend with an adult. Some of our current member families will be there, and we will be passing out information about:

• 2014-2015 Curriculum
• Tutor opportunities
• Tuition 
• General group organization

We meet once a week and have classes for Pre-K all the way through middle/high school.

If you have any questions or would like additional information, please email us at edmondwca@gmail.com or call (405) 315-1056.

2014-2015 WCA Outline for Elementary

At the parent meeting on 3/20/14, it was determined that the Elementary portion of the WCA would transition to a "CC Enrichment" style of learning in the fall. We felt that this would accommodate both the families that want to stick with the CC curriculum AND the families that are doing different coursework. The topics (where appropriate) will be pulled from CC Cycle 3 and serve to enhance the learning going on at home. In addition, there will be very little "at-home" work associated with the classes. Most of the work will be done in class. The skills and material being learned will help enrich every student's learning experience, regardless of the curriculum used at home. In addition, each class will have 2 assigned tutors. A course syllabus will be posted in April for each of these classes.

The following classes will be offered for Older Elementary and Younger Elementary. (If you would like to volunteer for one of the open tutor opportunities, please let Anita know and she will insert your name below.)

1.      Science Exploration - This class time will be spent in performing group science experiments on topics reflecting CC Cycle 3. (Tutors: Anita & ???)

2.      History/Geography Projects - Students will work on projects in class according to topics reflecting CC Cycle 3. If a student misses a week, they may need to spend additional time at home to complete the assignment, but in general this should not be required. Projects will be presented in class. (Tutors: Mandy M. & Liza)

3.      Life Skills / Writing - This class will alternate between teaching age-appropriate writing skills and life skills. Life skills topics may include items such as budgeting, money management, and entrepreneurship. (Tutors: Terri S. & Heather J.)

4.      Music Workshop - Students will explore music and put together a production for performance. (Tutors: Allison & ???)

As we have in the past, a Sparks class will also be offered for kids still learning basic academic skills (typically K-1st grade). A summary of Learning Environment Skills required to participate in the class will be posted in April. Children not ready for this class will be able to attend Play Time.

Play Time (formerly known as Nursery) is available for a weekly fee as we have done in prior years. This is not just for infants and small toddlers. If your child has not yet acquired the Learning Environment Skills needed for Sparks, this is the best option for them. We will have age-appropriate educational activities and a healthy snack each week. There will be 2 paid staff to supervise and care for the kids as needed.

Other Important Information:

·        Fall Semester will begin the Monday after Labor Day (Sept. 8th) and end the Monday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 24th). Spring Semester will go from Feb. 2 to April 27th. We will not meet in December or January, but Middle/High School students will have course requirements that must be completed at home during that time.

·        Classes will start at 9:00 and go for 40 minutes.

·        Instead of Opening each week, we will have Closing at 11:45 to go over parent announcements and for student recognitions by tutors and parents.

·        Elementary will not have classes after lunch, but we will have a special potluck each month to celebrate different events. (Mellie is working on a list).

·        A field trip will be scheduled to the OK History Museum Homeschool Day in the fall. (Might have a scheduled field trip in the Spring as well.)

·        Tuition costs will be determined by the end of April. There will be 2 payment options available. You can either pay in full at the beginning of the year or participate in the monthly payment plan. Families that pay in full at the parent meeting in August (or before) will get a 10% discount on their tuition.

·        We will have 3 parent meetings a semester. One before it begins (Aug/Jan), one in the middle, and one near the end. 

Unit 17 U.S. History Questions

Unit 17 Questions

Questions on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

1.  Why was the frontier to be closed?

2.  How had the frontier been an important reality in American settlement?

3.  How had the frontier affected the American mindset?

4.  How did western migration in the U.S. change the character of American life      and of the American population from what it had been originally on the East         Coast?

5.  What did Turner say was the most important effect of the frontier?

Lesson 85

1.  What is social Darwinism?

2.  What English author applied survival of the fittest to society?

3.  Who was a leading American spokesman for social Darwinism?

4.  How was social Darwinism a justification for the accumulation of wealth?

5.  According to social Darwinism, what happened to the poor, disabled, and          economically unsuccessful?

6.  What is the social gospel?

7.  What are some examples of social gospel activity?

8.  What is true about the social gospel and what is extreme about it?

US. History Unit 15 questions

Unit 15 Questions

Lesson 71

1.  What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?

2.  What was the Tammany Hall machine or the Tweed Ring?

3.  What were some of the reasons why Democrats regained power in the         South?

Lesson 72

1.  Where did most cattle drives begin and end?

2.  What areas of the country had large percentages of foreign-born immigrants or children of immigrants?

3.  What services grew in the cities to meet the public’s needs?

Lesson 73

1.  Why was a transcontinental railroad promoted?

2.  What two companies built the transcontinental railroad?

3.  What immigrant groups were hired in large numbers by the railroad companies?

Lesson 74

1.  What does it mean to “wave the bloody shirt”?

2.  The electoral votes from what states were questioned in the election?

3.  How was the controversy decided?

Lesson 75

1.  How was American life a mixture of good and bad in the late nineteenth century?

2.  How can the city pull people away from God?

3.  In what ways is American life today better than it was 100 years ago, and in what ways is it not as good?

U.S. History Week 10

AMERICAN HISTORY - WEEK 10

Continue following your syllabus. (We are currently working on Unit 10)  YOU SHOULD BEGIN READING UNCLE TOM'S CABIN THIS WEEK.   This is an amazing book!  I encourage you to read this together as a family.  The library has an audio version.

Please complete assignments that were given last week. (See Week 9 homework on the WCA blog)