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Homeschool Spelling Bee a Success

Home Educators Around Texoma (H.E.A.T.) announces spelling bee champion

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

WICHITA FALLS – Esther Burford sank her head into her hands in relief when the moderator told her she had spelled “expression” correctly and was the 2023 Spelling Bee Champion.

Paul Coraccio, president of Home Educators Around Texoma (H.E.A.T.), presented the
championship trophy to Esther, age 12, after the annual Spelling Bee which was held at the Lamar Family Activities Center on Wednesday, March 8th.

2nd place winner was Abigale Smits (13), who also was awarded a certificate for Enunciation. The 3rd place winner was Flora Berre (12). Additionally, Walker Berre (11) was awarded a certificate for Poise.

The bee lasted 29 rounds and went through 118 words. Moderator was Jean Hall, and two judges were Elaine Matamoros and Beth Tate.

H.E.A.T. has been hosting annual spelling bees for more than 16 years.

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Free Financial Management Class

HEAT Sponsored Event for all Homeschool Families

Special presentation by Charity Anoh, World Financial Group

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www.wfheat.com

Free to all homeschooling families! This free class does not require any registration and is only being offered on January 13th, 2023 from 2-3:00 pm at the Lamar Baptist Church Family Activities Center (LFAC).

Get Directions to Lamar Family Activities Center Here

For more information, listen to the short message above, or visit the website for HEAT at www.wfheat.com

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TCH Registration a Big Success

Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop officially joined the ranks of the growing number of coops sprouting up around the country. However, the group behind this coop is not new to the homeschool arena, and in fact have decades of experience behind them.

Registration kicked off Tuesday, August 23rd, which marked the official beginning of an era for Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop which will meet on Tuesdays from 10am-2pm at 1319 10th Street, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Note from Administration : We still have openings for 5-10 more families.

Over 2/3 of the families that pre-registered were able to make it to the Registration with a couple surprise first-time homeschoolers joining us as well. Overall, the leadership at the new coop was pleased with the turnout and are all excited to start the school year!

Orientation is up next week, Tuesday the 30th Noon-1pm at the homeschool location of 1319 10th Street  Wichita Falls, Texas (Tenth and Broad Church of Christ).

For more information, please contact;

Andrea Hale 940-224-6211, TCH Co-Coordinator

Brian Hale 940-224-6315, TCH Principal

https://www.texomachristian.com

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Registration Set for New Homeschool Coop

Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop

Several families from the homeschool group formerly known as M.A.R.K. have been working diligently to organize the new Christian homeschool group now known as Texoma Christian.

The new homeschool will be much improved, including a new facility complete with heat and air conditioning, a full nursery, a gym, an outdoor field to play in, a cafeteria, storage areas and as many as 9 classrooms. For those of us who have endured the conditions over the years, we are very grateful for Tenth and Broad allowing us to lease their climate-controlled facility.

The website for the homeschool group gets updated frequently and contains all the most important information, forms, policies and procedures as well as our lineup of classes, schedule and announcements. Visit the Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop website at www.texomachristian.com.

TCH is an Authorized Affiliate of ChristianBooks.com so please use this link and the coop will receive an 8% override… https://texomachristian.com/bookstore, or the one on our website.

We are asking everyone interested in our coop to please pre-register at https://texomachristian.com/pre-register. Once you have pre-registered, you will receive an email from our TCH Coordinator Andi Hale. You may fill out the Registration sent to you by email, or you may access our Official Registration Packet here.

Official Registration Date is August 23rd, but the way the applications are coming in, it may be too late by that time. We recommend everyone pre-register NOW to give your family the best chance as seats are filling quickly. August 23rd will be a live in person event giving us all a chance to get to know each other and ask questions. Registration will be held at Deep In The Heart Yoga Studio, home of our Vice-Principal and Board member Vicki Schweiss. Her studio is located inside the exchange building at 405 Galveston Street, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301. Registration will be held August 23rd, 2022 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Please bring your completed forms and payment at that time.

Download Official Registration Packet

For more on the school, visit https://www.texomachristian.com

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#652 – ChristianBook Affiliate Store

Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop

Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop is moving forward quickly with the addition of our own Affiliate ChristianBook.com Bookstore available at https://texomachristian.com/christianbook

By purchasing your curriculum through our Affiliate Link, our homeschool coop will receive 8% of gross sales.

We also have an affiliate store with AbeBooks at 5%.

The money that is earned through this affiliate program will be the line item Affiliate Revenue in our annual budget with 100% going to our general fund for supplies, etc.

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TCH Coop coming together quickly

The homeschool revolution is booming and I am very excited about the way this vision of our new homeschool is coming together. I am also very glad for the homeschool dads that are stepping up in a big way and volunteering to teach at our new homeschool coop. Alot of good things are happening all around.

Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop is comprised of several former M.A.R.K. Homeschool families that got together with a vision and followed through after the former director retired and the school was shutdown. Many of us felt there was alot of good to be built on from our experience in M.A.R.K. so we took on the challenge and formed a board of directors in June of 2022.

Terri Hayter and Andi Hale were up to the task of being co-coordinators and for me it was a dream come true to be given the opportunity to be the Administrator / Principal for TCH. We are also every blessed to also have Catherine Honkomp, Jennifer Carpenter and Vicki Schweiss serving on the board as well. The former serves as our Treasurer while the latter is our new Assistant Principal! We are excited to have such capable and experienced homeschool parents serving with us.

Speaking of homeschool dads, I am hoping we are starting a new revolution at TCH with the involvement of several homeschool dads. Not only are they trusting me to lead the school, but we are extremely fortunate to have Mr. Honkomp and Mr. Hayter in the classroom this year!

Another huge blessing to our homeschool coop is the upgrade in our new facility this year. The facility is setup nicely for us to use 9 separate classrooms, large gym, kitchenette, cafeteria, and a full nursery. There will be no need to bring in fans and space heaters in our new location at Tenth and Broad Church of Christ. We sincerely appreciate their hospitality, not only with our new homeschool, but also with Trail Life USA and American Heritage Girls, whom they also host. Pastor Ken and the folks at Tenth and Broad are as committed to our youth as we are, and for that we are grateful.

Let’s Recap;

What : Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop

When : Tuesdays, Sep 13 – Dec 6 10am-2pm

Where : 1319 Tenth Street (Tenth and Broad)

More Info : https://www.texomachristian.com

Contact : Andrea Hale 940-224-6211

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Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop

There has never been a better time to consider homeschooling your children.

Like several other homeschooling veterans in the community, we feel it is our duty to help others, regardless of what homeschool coop program one chooses.

Over the past 7 years, we have found several good local coops to get involved with, one of which was the MARK Coop that closed down with the retirement of it’s Director. With this closure, and the uptick in interest involving homeschooling, I was determined to do something. In fact, I had a vision of someday running a homeschool coop, and to my surprise, Andi and her friend Terri were already discussing co-directing it, so the pieces began to fall into place! God was making a way for this to happen.

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A few weeks later, a Board of Directors was formed and the name Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop was adopted.

The new Board moved quickly on creating (Thank you Catherine) and disseminating (Thank you Andi) an Interest Survey which returned some very positive results within the first 48 hours. Early results confirm there is certainly no shortage of interest in homeschooling, and we are in a position to offer another great option for the community!

Once more results are tallied, we will have a better idea of what size and type of location we will need. Letters and emails are being prepared and sent out to prospective host churches.

Meanwhile, the vice presidency vacancy on our area Homeschool Association (HEAT – Home Educators Across Texoma) had been on my mind for some time. After much prayer and discussion, along with our successful formation of our own new coop, it was finally time to seek the nomination to serve with HEAT. And so it came to pass, June 8, 2022.

Now the real work begins. We will be updating the community soon!

If you have any questions or input, please contact us or leave your comments below.

Brian Hale, Principal/Superintendent – Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop and Vice President of H.E.A.T. can be reached at 940-224-6315; text first if possible, for best response.

Andi Hale, Co-Director – Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop 940-224-6211

Terri Hayter, Co-Director – Texoma Christian Homeschool Coop

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