Christian Home Educators of Simpson County


Home Works

Christian Home Educators of Simpson County is a group of local families involved in schooling children at home. We are a loosely associated support group with regular monthly gatherings plus special educational field trips. 

This page announces meetings, field trips, and events for children and parents. 

Events Schedule

8 -30 Hattiesburg Zoo trip, (Tuesday).  We will meet at the Hudson’s parking lot at 9:00 amAdmission is $2 Adults, $1 children, 3 and under free.  The train and carousel are $1.25 each. Bring a sack lunch, and there is a gift shop.

9-1, meeting 2:00 city park-book reports

9-22, field trip-Thursday  Palestine Gardens, Lucedale, Ms.  Admission free, bring sack lunch.  Leave magee hudson’s at 8 am.

10-6 spelling bee, city park, 2:00

10-20 corn maze, ???  that’s a Thursday, will  be in Simpson Co somewhere J

11-3 Magee library 2:00 operation shoeboxes

11-17 field trip thurs-Science museum and sports hall of fame

12-3meeting 3:30-thurs-magee library, Christmas party and craft.
 


Homeschool Links

Mississippi Homeschool Law
Home School Legal Defense Association
Math Word Problems for Children
Mind Tools - MemoryTechniques and Mnemonics
Homeschool World
Homeschooling Today™ Magazine 
The Teaching Home
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Math Goodies: Free Interactive Math Lessons
Britannica.com
Gutenberg Project, books online
Mississippi Department of Education
Central MS Regional Library System
CIA -- The World Factbook
Crosswalk.com HomeSchool
ReadingInstruction.com 
The Phonics Solution -- MINDPLAY®
Free education physics,chemistry,mathematics,biology SAT
HomeworkCentral.com
VegSource Homeschool
Homeschool in the News

Once upon a time all these links worked. Please let us know if any is out of date; none is necessarily endorsed by the association. If you have any to add, send me a link to the address at the bottom of the page.



Change in Mississippi's homeschool law:

from this description of the home school instruction on the annual enrollment card:
(iii) A simple description of the type of education the compulsory-school-age child is receiving and, if the child is enrolled in a nonpublic school, the name and address of the school; and 

to this:
(iii) A * * * description of the type of education the compulsory-school-age child is receiving, including, if the child is being educated in a legitimate home instruction program, a copy of the instructional program for each subject being taught to the child during that school year and the child's grade level in the home instruction program; 





Christian Home Educators of Simpson County
Mississippi

For further information contact:
Lynn McCoy  601 847 5962
cokerfam@netdoor.net
Chanel Allen  601 847 0704 wam141@ayrix.net
Dick Ford 601 733 9010  dickford@dick-ford.com

Revised 8/22/2005