Hippy Kids Home School
Families Learning Together
Empowering Parents and Kids
Hippy Kids Home School is a home schooling community for parents with children grades K-8 in Oakhurst, CA. It's a place where children can explore their creativity, learn at their own pace, and be part of a supportive community of like-minded families. Join us in this exciting educational journey.
This is how we create a nurturing and inspiring learning environment for our kids.
Curriculum
K-8 instructional materials are recommended by Hippy Kids Homeschool for: English Language Arts, math, science and social studies. Materials chosen are focused on use in the homeschool setting. Curriculum costs are reduced with group discounts and textbook buy-back program.
Enrichment Activities
Hands-on learning experiences that encourage creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration
Fieldtrips
Parent-led field trip opportunities with supplemental lesson and materials
Training
Parent trainings focus on how to create complete programs at home in phonics, reading, writing, math, science and social studies for grades K-8.
Founder
Mrs. Judy Horn
MEd Curriculum & Instruction
Hippy Kids Homeschool is this crazy idea I’ve been kicking around for several years, now. After seeing so many homeschool parents struggle so much, all I could do was just shake my head. Handed an armful of textbooks and told ‘Good Luck,” by charter schools, or worse yet, trying to go solo without any pedagogy at all, is just a disaster with tears, waiting to happen! If only I could help get them organized. If only I could train them up a little, they’d have a fighting chance to give their kids a better education. A GREAT education! That’s where the idea for Hippy Kids Home School began. And, after batting it around a little with parents, it’s evolved. It’s still evolving! It’s going to be fun to see where this thing goes!
Membership
It takes a lot of work to run a school, but “Many hands make light work!” Membership in the Hippy Kids Home School is a simple commitment to join other home school parents in finding and arranging enrichment, activities, and fieldtrips for all of the kids in the group. Charter school parents are encouraged to join, as well as, solo private school parents.
Your first job will be to commit to attend monthly member meetings. This is where the action happens. Ideas start flowing and needs come up and parents volunteer to run down the details and make it happen. It seems like somebody always has a friend that does this or that, and they take on the responsibility for hooking us up. The activity gets on the calendar and the webpage gets set up for families to register and participate. To make Hippy Kids Home School work, we need you to participate, lead if you can, speak up and let your voice be heard. Tell us your vision and help us make it a reality!
I will lead in the academic side of the house. I will teach the parent training and help with curriculum recommendations for the four main content areas; English Language Arts, math, science and social studies. This is the resource many parents are looking for when they first begin their homeschool journey. How do I begin? Families are not obligated to use the recommended curriculum, but they are what parent trainings and group discounts will be based on. This resource is included in the basic membership.
Many of the individual activities and fieldtrips require additional fees. We will often get group discounts when purchasing together. Some activities are even created especially for us! Parents will pay these fees when registering for the event.
Membership dues are $100/student per year. This fee helps keep the lights on, pays the webpage bill, maintains the textbook buy-back system and keeps your trainer afloat.
Your last job is to help us grow by spreading the word about Hippy Kids Home School to everyone you know! They may know someone who is looking for us! Encourage them to join or bring them to a meeting!
Judy Horn
