YES! Homeschooling is legal throughout the United States. Each state is free to create its own legal structure for home education, so one state’s homeschooling laws may look very different from another’s.
$17 per year until July 31, 2018 // $20 per year starting August 1, 2018
Our co-op is an academic group. We have a formally structured group of parents that meet once a week to form classes for our children. We serve nursery through highschool with classes ranging from arts, music, sciences, math, and history. Co-op currently has a waiting list, every semester we open enrollment to HELPS members when we have openings. Must be a HELPS member for 1 year before you are eligible to join.
Membership fees are used to maintain our website, cover insurance premiums, kindergarten and 8th grade graduation, high school graduation fees, and to help off set our small group activities. We also help offset some of the field trip fees when possible.
We will try to help all of our families stay a part of the group, even through financial difficulties. If you are having problems paying your membership fee please speak with one of the board members for arrangements.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children and to protect family freedoms. We provide homeschooling-related legal advice and representation to our 84,000+ member families, promote homeschool-friendly legislation at the state and federal levels, and offer information and resources to encourage and support all homeschoolers.
Homeschool Legal Defense Association https://hslda.org/content/hs/state/MO/
Contact: Kim Quon FHE Region 5 Director
fhemoregion5@gmail.com
877-696-6343 x5
http://www.fhe-mo.org/
MO Conservation Department: https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/events
St. Louis Zoo: https://www.stlzoo.org/education/programsforindividualsfami/programsforhomeschoole
Science Center: https://www.slsc.org/
St. Louis County Library: https://www.slcl.org/kids
Family Vision Library: http://www.thefamilyvision.org/
Providence Fine Arts Program: https://www.homeschool-life.com/mo/providencefac/
Day Springs Art and Education: https://www.dayspringarts.org/
Reinbrook Art Classes: http://www.reinbrook.com/
Art Classes: Contact: Dena Braford 314-584-4133 tdzmi05@att.net
Magic House: “Homeschool Monday’s” reserved for the 2018-2019 school year are: October 1, 2018, November 5, 2018, and February 4, 2019. Reservations are not required. The discounted admission rate for this program is $3.00 per person and children 12 months and older. The time is 9:30–11:30 am.
Missouri History Museum: http://mohistory.org/homeschool
Chuck E Cheese https://www.chuckecheese.com/kids-corner/rewards-calendars
Six Flags https://feedback.sixflags.com/rts/
Raging Rivers https://www.ragingrivers.com/raging-as-days/
Pizza Hut http://www.bookitprogram.com/homeschool/default.asp
Girls Volleyball
Panthers: http://www.panthersvolleyball.club/
Intensity: Contact: Michelle Lovelace Email: stlintensity@gmail.com
Girls Basketball
Patriettes: https://www.homeschool-life.com/814/index_public
Girls Soccer
Patriettes: Contact Heather Kelsey dkjrmom@gmail.com
Boys Soccer
St. Louis United: Contact Jim Hoving jhoving@hrgreen.com
Boys Basketball
St. Louis Patriots: http://www.stlpatriots.org/
St. Louis Blue Knights: http://www.stlblueknights.org/
Boys Golf
Contact: Doug Kelsey dougkelsey@gmail.com
Boys Baseball
St. Louis Patriots Baseball: http://www.stlpatriotsbaseball.com/
Robotics
Team #1094 The Channel Cats is a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team currently located at
the Missouri State Technical College building at Lewis & Clark Career Center, 2450 Zumbehl Rd, St. Charles, MO 63301 and meets most Thursdays from 7-9 pm, depending on the season, please contact first.
FRC is the FIRST Robotics program geared toward high school students;
However, the Channel Cats accept younger, mature students. See the following websites for more info.
http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
http://frc1094.org/
http://www.rivercityrobots.org/
Dance
Center Stage:
Contact: Elizabeth Pietrzak
(314) 229-2593
St. Louis Mills Mall
Offers a special homeschool rate every Thursday during their daytime public session. The cost will be $5 including skate rental for kids 6 and up. Children 5 and under are $3 including skates. The session will vary due to the St. Louis Blues practice times, so please call ahead for the time of the session, or check the web site http://www.icezoneatmills.com .
On select Mondays from 9:30–11:30 am, homeschool families and organizations can tour The Magic House when the Museum is closed to the public. The two-hour reserved program includes exploration of the entire Museum. The discounted admission rate for this program is $3.00 per person and children 12 months and older. Select “Homeschool Monday’s” reserved for the 2018-2019 school year are: October 1, 2018, November 5, 2018, and February 4, 2019. Reservations are not required.
http://mohistory.org/homeschool
Homeschool Days are an opportunity for homeschool families to experience the Gallery + Classroom programs regularly offered to K-12 schools. In addition to these exhibit-based educational programs, we also facilitate a variety of other activities depending on the day’s theme such as storytelling, theatre performances, musical performances, team-building workshops and more! We offer activities for specific age groups as well as activities that the whole family can enjoy together. Homeschool Days take place once a month on Mondays. All activities are available from 10am to 2pm, and you can spend as much or as little time with us as you’d like. Select activities are ticketed because of space limitations. Tickets are free and are distributed at the Museum on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 10am on the selected Homeschool Day date.
Athletic Director: Michelle Lovelace, Athletic Director
Email : stlintensity@gmail.com
Website: www.stlintensity.org
St. Louis Intensity offers homeschool girls ages 10-18 an opportunity to play competitive volleyball while honoring God in all that we do.
We offer developmental, junior high, junior varsity, and varsity teams, with tryouts in June.
St. Louis and Eastern Missouri Area
There is a homeschool tackle football program available for young men in the Eastern Missouri and St. Louis area. The league consists of teams in the north, middle and southern sections of Eastern Missouri. The name of the league is the Mid-East Missouri Home School Football Association. It is an incorporated, nonprofit Christian athletic organization established to serve homeschool families. Our opponents are both public and private schools. Teams are for young men from ages 11 to 14 years old; and, from 15 to 18 years old. For information about any of these teams please contact us: www.memhsfa.com; or e-mail FootballHomeschoolers@gmail.com; or call coach Bob Schembre at 314-807-6359
Varsity Coach / Program Director, Mark Valle
314-575-0615
http://www.stlpatriotsbaseball.com
The Patriots welcome all homeschooled young men with a love of baseball to attend tryouts for Varsity, JV Red, JV Blue, and Middle School teams, usually held in the spring and fall. Like most all teams, the Patriots have to limit the number of roster players. However, unlike most teams, we welcome non-roster players to attend practices to share in the opportunity to learn, grow and develop as players and young, Christian men.Baseball: St. Louis Patriots www.stlpatriotsbaseball.com
The St. Louis Christian HomeSchool Blue Knights Basketball Program is excited to announce information for the 2017-2018 season. The Knights continue to experience unprecedented growth and success. The Blue Knights have grown to become one of the largest HomeSchool programs in the nation growing from 3 to 12 teams in the last 5 years. The Knights have been ranked in the Top 10 in the nation for HomeSchool teams, gone 31-20 against MSHSAA Public and Private schools, won several State Championships and have multiple former athletes playing college basketball. However as great as the growth and success on the court are it is the lifelong friendships and spiritual growth that are by far the best part of being a Knight. If you are interested in finding our more about the Knights or be added to the Knights email distribution list please contact Lori at stlblueknights@gmail.com
Director: Daniel Carr
dcarrfamily@gmail.com
website: www.stlpatriettes.org
e-mail sportsmomx4@linuxmail.org
Girl’s basketball ages 13-19.
Junior High and Varsity teams available for 5th through 12th grade homeschool girls to participate on competitive teams.
Contact: Judy Maichel
mjmaichel@sbcglobal.net
(314) 352-1319
The original St. Louis Patriots Homeschool Boys Basketball Program, as started in 2002, is made up of Christian homeschooled boys in grades 7-12 from the greater St. Louis area. The Patriot squads play Jr High, Junior Varsity, and Varsity teams from private, Christian, independent, and other homeschool programs in Illinois and the greater St. Louis area. The St. Louis Patriots Boys Basketball Team welcomes any inquiries from teams interested in scheduling one or more games and/or tournaments with us. Please contact Judy Maichel, our schedule coordinator, at (314) 352-1319 if your team is interested in scheduling a game. For more information go to:http://www.stlpatriots.org/
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