San Jose, CA or Bay area anyone???

[hannahptl]

We're just starting our homeschooling adventure and looking for other homeschooling friends for playdates, possible co-op schooling, or anything in between! We live in San Jose (Willow Glen area).

I've got 2 kids who'd love some to meet some new friends for fun and learning, and I think it'll help them to not feel like they're the only homeschoolers in town! My son, who is turning 7 years old at the end of this month, is fun-loving, book-reading, and loves playing outside. My daughter is turning 5 next month, loves to color and read. Both are delightful (most of the time!).

We'd love to meet any of you in the area!

[NayfiesMama]

http://www.homeschoolclassifieds.com/

Not sure if you've just started doing searches on google. Also, I found co-ops through calling churches and asking if co-ops used their facilities :)

[Carol in Cal.]

I live in Willow Glen, too. Nice to 'meet' you. If you want to chat, PM me your phone number, and I'll fill you in on local groups.

[leeyeewah]

Hi hannahptl and Carol! I'm about 30 mins north of you, on the Peninsula, but we go to San Jose once a week for my son's Chinese class.

Carol probably knows more resources in So. Bay, the one I know of is a Yahoo group called basiccommunique which is pretty active.

[JenneinAZ]

Hi! We are in Santa Clara.

My youngest turned seven earlier this week. And there is a whole bunch of turning seven years old soon little boys at our Park Day. If you are interested in a Park Day group you can check out ours. We are in Park Hoppers. We meet on Monday afternoons.

http://www.parkhoppers.org/index.htm

[hannahptl]

Just sent you a PM Carol! Looking forward to talking with you!:001_smile:

[hannahptl]

Thanks for your friendly replies Leeyeewah and JenneinAZ! I'll check out the yahoo group and parkhoppers sites. So glad to get connected to other homeschoolers!!

[HipGal]

What good luck that I happened to wander over here today. :) I have a 7 year old son and 5 year old daughter as well. We live near San Jose. We are not homeschooling yet - the kids are currently going to private school - but we are leaning toward homeschooling for next year. I'd love to hear about local groups and meet some homeschooling families!

leeyeewah, I'm curious where you are going for Chinese school. The kids are currently in a bilingual school and we are thinking of doing afterschool Chinese next year.

Nice to "meet" you all. :)

[hannahptl]

The same situation here for us! My 2 kids are in a small Christian school now, but the school is closing at the end of this schoolyear, so hence our decision to homeschool next year. We've been afterschooling this year (piano, math and Korean) and it's been going pretty well which makes me hope that we can do it full time. We shall see how it goes!

Would LOVE to meet other parents who might be interested in starting a co-op, similar to ones I've seen in other towns, so that we can have the fellowship of other parent teachers and kids working together, instead of each family reinventing the homeschooling wheel. I just haven't found any co-op with the classical Christian education vision in the San Jose area, and this is the 10th largest city in the US, so there's gotta be like-minded folks out there, right?

[leeyeewah]

Hi HipGal, nice to meet you!

We're going to send our son to TianTian Chinese school in Milpitas (http://tiantian.vpweb.com/Home.html) next year. It's a weekend class, but they also offer afterschool. They use Ma Liping's Chinese curriculum, which you can preview here (http://www.mychineseschool.com/sample/yangben.php).

[Crimson Wife]

I just haven't found any co-op with the classical Christian education vision in the San Jose area, and this is the 10th largest city in the US, so there's gotta be like-minded folks out there, right?

I'm not in San Jose, but I have heard good things about HEART Academy (http://www.baysidesanjose.com/ministries/heart-academy.html). You might want to check them out.

[hannahptl]

Thanks everyone for your replies!

I think we're leaning toward CC this year...maybe not ideal but the best option I could find. Looking forward to homeschooling! :001_smile:

[anabelneri]

Hello! I'm on the Peninsula. I'm glad to see others nearby!

Can't help with the conservative Christian co-op... Another friend on this list was doing CC last year, but you've mentioned that already. You could see if there are any individual churches with homeschool groups. I know the conservative Catholic parish has their own, so I assume some other conservative churches might too.

:)

[HSDCY]

Live Oak Academy (http://liveoakacademy.org/) is a Christian Classical Education co-op in San Jose.