Homeschool Club:
Exploring God’s Creation through STEAM
Homeschool Club is an outreach ministry of First Up Children’s Ministries through First Methodist Church Oviedo. It was created with the goal of creating a homeschooling community for our students & families.
Our Teachers:
Ms Katie and Ms Heather are both former teachers, current mothers, and members of First Methodist Oviedo. Combined we have over 20 years of teaching experience, over a variety of subject matter. Ms Heather has her Masters in Science education, and helps to develop hands-on science materials that we use weekly. As educators, we have worked with a wide age range of students, and know that creating a love of learning begins by meeting students where they are at, in their interests, and fostering positive relationships.
Wednesdays
9:30am - 1:30pm
Our day begins with a hands-on STEAM challenge or activity, we follow with one of our rotating specials, and we end the day with time for the students to practice their interpersonal communication skills (playground & gym)
Pizza lunch and snack
Our Rotating Specials
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Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)
Bring a book (or borrow one of ours), bring a stuffy, we’ll make the snacks, and LET’S READ!!!
We have a variety of texts available for readers of all ages & interests.
During this time, our main goal is to help encourage an intrinsic love of reading. We also hope to help develop the life-long skill of reading & focusing while around others (and allowing for others to read/focus while around us). -
Service Projects
Students will help our campus & community by completing service projects. Some past projects include:
-Making Christmas cards - students used stamps (and their own creativity)to create over 250 Christmas cards! What began as individual cards then evolved into a production line! These cards were then included in the stockings for our Palm Valley Senior Food Pantry recipients, and also sent to the students & residents at Residing Hope (formerly the United Methodist Children’s Home, and one of our Core Mission Partners).-Writing encouraging notes - students used chalk and wrote encouraging messages on the sidewalk to the students of Oviedo High School following some recent tragedies.
-Helping on Campus - students were able to help move the toy donations that our church collected for residents of Orlando Union Rescue Mission (one of FMCO’s Core Mission Partners). We had staff who needed help loading their car to deliver the toys, & our students were beyond enthusiastic to help!
Other Previous Service Projects:
-creating a table cloth for a Methodist Women in Missions event
-creating placemats for FMCO’s Meals on Wheels recipients
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Show & Tell
A fan favorite: students are welcome to bring in something that they’d like to share about from home.
We take this time to practice speaking in front of others, and listening to our peers.
Things to note: while we currently don’t limit the amount of items that a student may bring in to share with the group, we do try to give each student as close to equal amounts of time as possible.
FAQ
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We’d love for you to come help! All of our volunteers go through MinistrySafe training as well as background checks in order to ensure the safety of our students.
If you’re interesting in beginning this process, please reach out to us!!! We would love to have you!
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This program charges a tuition in order to cover the cost of our program materials. Tuition can be paid as a lump sum per semester, upon registration, or it can be staggered into two payments throughout the semester. Once tuition has been paid, we can send a receipt for reimbursement for the PEP scholarship.
The cost of tuition is $500 per student (we offer a $50 sibling discount). This breaks down to roughly $30 per day, or $7.50 per hour.
Tuition covers:
Materials & Equipment Fees for labs & hands-on Science experiments.
FEE SCHEDULE:
LUMP SUM - Due Upon the Beginning of the Semester
One Student, Lump Sum - $500
Two Student Family, Lump Sum -
$500 for the first student
$450 for the second student
QUARTER PAYMENTS-
First Payment - Due upon beginning of semester
Second Payment - Due by the beginning of the second month of the semester
One Student - Quarter Payments:
$250 due September 2nd
$250 due by October 1st
Two Students - Quarter Payments:
$250 due September 2nd (per student)
Remaining balance due October 1st
$250 (first student)
$200 (second student)
If the cost of tuition seems prohibitive to your participation in our program, please reach out to hsc@fmcoviedo.net
