Post from Rosemary Boswell, BCA Home School Support Teacher:

Hello Bios Christian Academy Home School families!

I hope you are enjoying your summer break. I have met with Mr. Ihms a couple times about our new Bios Christian Academy Home School Support program and I am excited to share with you our plans for the coming school year.

Our classroom will be off the hallway near where the bathrooms are located. We will be inside the middle building with the primary and elementary students, cafeteria, and office. I'm very pleased with our location. The modular building separate from the church will be Junior High and High School classrooms.

Mr. Ihms and I would like this program to truly be a support system for our homeschooling families. Two ways we will offer assistance this coming school year are:

1. A Home School Support Guide - I am currently working on putting together a guide that clearly spells out what we do in our program and what needs to be taught at home. We will not be intruding on what you do at home. We will continue to keep what we do at school separate from what you do at home. It is our goal to provide curriculum/resource ideas and support.
*Please email me with any ideas or items that you would like to see covered in the guide. I am making it for you.

2. Home School Support Meetings - Mr. Ihms and I would like to offer homeschooling families an opportunity to meet with us to discuss our program. Making sure this program is meeting the needs of our homeschooling families is a main objective for us. During these meetings we will share with you our curriculum, checksheets, and method of teaching. A question and answer session will be included as well. We want our homeschooling families to feel like a valuable and supported part of the school.

Our first BCA Home School Support Meeting will be on Tuesday, July 14 at 7:00 pm at the Boswell Family Home, 1825 E Appaloosa Road, Gilbert.

{We are located at Val Vista & Warner behind Home Depot in the Rancho Cimarron neighborhood. From Warner Road, turn north into the Rancho Cimarron neighborhood on Key Biscayne, take the third right (east) on Appaloosa (at the park), we are the third house on the right.}

Please feel free to bring any curriculum you use to share with Mr. Ihms. He will be happy to look it over and give you feedback on what you are using at home. As much as I would love to see your children, if possible, please find childcare for your children during the meeting.

PLEASE NOTE: We are making some changes to the planned subject list.

For both the primary and elementary home school programs, we are removing Easy Grammar from the daily schedule. I will include some basic grammar during composition, but I will not be doing a set grammar program with the students. You will need to teach a daily grammar program at home.

Elementary students will be happy to know that we will include the G-Quest geography curriculum in the 4th - 6th grade class this coming school year! You do not need to purchase a geography program; we will have it covered.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, let me know and I will send you information on what was discussed.

As always, if you have any questions, give me a call or send me an email.

Blessings,

Rosemary Boswell
Bios Christian Academy Home School Support Teacher
480-588-7052
rosemaryboswell@cox.net