Baytown Homeschoolers started in October of 2002 with just eleven families. Since then, we've established a formal organizational leadership team, which includes a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Field Trip Coordinator! We've now grown to serve over 100 homeschooling families – and we're still growing. We'd love to have you be a part of what God's doing in our group!

We are a biblical-based homeschool group founded by Biblical principles; however, we welcome any homeschooling family. Really the only qualification is that you are a homeschooling household with a passion for teaching your children. All we ask is that you respect our group's statement of faith and principles at all BAH events and gatherings.

Joining our group provides you access to our closed web page, where you will have access to all our events, meetings, and activities. You can join our group by completing three easy steps.

1. Attend a meeting by emailing us at baytownhomeschoolers@gmail.com, where we can answer all your questions.

2. Pay dues

3. Sign and submit waiver and by-laws agreement (can receive these at a meeting)

In order to join the Baytown Area Homeschoolers, it's best that you come to at least one monthly meeting. With a few exceptions, these take place on the first Friday of every month. Please email us at baytownhomeschoolers@gmail.com ahead of time for the meeting location. You may pay for dues at the meeting and sign the liability waiver.

For dues, we accept checks, cash, or online through our website or via PayPal. Yearly dues are $32.00. Our fiscal year is August 1 through July 31; however, if you join after December, your dues will be pro-rated.

Our PayPal email address is baytownhomeschoolers@gmail.com.

Once we meet you, you have paid dues and signed a waiver, you may request access to our webpage, and you will be approved.

The dues go to cover expenses for our group. Some of the expenses are, but are not limited to:

*An annual open house in which vendors from the greater Houston area (but mainly the east side since the bulk of our group resides in this general area) come and set up tables to make aware of what they offer to the homeschool community. We cover the venue, security costs, and light snacks for this.

*Monthly meetings usually have some type of activity or event for the group, and at some of these, not all, we provide paper products for different seasonal parties, ribbons/prizes for track and field, reward certificates for science/art/history projects, annual end of year pizza and ice cream party, some of the crafts that we have at some of the meetings for the kids, etc.

*Funds also go to help with other annual events such as, but not limited to, graduation ceremonies (both for kindergarten and seniors), annual parties for the teen's group (Teen Bash - Homeschool version of Prom), end of year pool party for the whole group (the group covers the bulk of the price allowing families only pay a small portion for their families to go verses the full cost) Christmas party for the whole group (again, group pays the bulk, and families have a small charge verse the full cost), etc.

We have a few different activities that our group hosts, such as:

*We have field trips each month, usually 2 or 3 per month. Some are free; some are a small charge based on where it's set up at. Most are for all ages. If they are age-specific, we will post that in the events, so families are aware of this before they commit to attending.

*Each monthly meeting, we host different activities or projects such as track n' field, science and art fair, world and history fair, cookie decorating, graduation, and more.

*The teens have a yearbook club, teen bash, and graduation.

SURE! We have some helpful links under the resources tab, as well as the following document:

• Resources, curriculum, and where to buy it