Name for your Homeschool?

[Monica]

I tried to figure out how to search, to see if this has already been discussed but I couldn't see how to do it. So if someone wants to clue me in, I would appreciate it.

My question is, do you have a name for your homeschool? What is it? When do you use?

[Tyleah]

My husband jokingly calls ours, the Almost Amish School. He thinks I am too wholesome and granola'ish. I have not got up the nerve to use it, but I think it is pretty funny.

[dharmamama]

Our name is The School at Bag End. I started using it because I needed a school name for signing up for the Scholastic book club. The only time I use it is when I am required to give a school name to get something school/homeschool related.

I just used it to get a free book from tolerance.org.

Namaste!

[babydreamer]

We have a name for our homeschool. It goes along with the name of our homestead and our soap making business names.

Homestead ~ Heritage Hill Homestead
Soapmaking business ~ Heritage Hill Soap Works
Our school ~ Heritage Hill Homeschool

We live in a hill and the land we own has been in the family for many generations thus the heritage part.

[Mary-Beth]

I haven't thought of a name yet. I think it's cute to...and I'll write a mission statment too.

[annettemarie]

Ours is Morning Song Home School, but we don't have a mission statement.

[Mallory]

Hey:

Some fun ideas

What you see out your window+ View Acadamy (mountain view acadamy, oak view school, rainy view school , ect...)

In memorial of a favorite relative _____ Memorial School

Use your last name _____'s Learners (or center or school)
or your kids initials

Use your street name or add park to it

Since we live on El Montano St. at the top of the hill, I've been thinking something along the lines of Mountain Top School.

Although somedays Instite for the Insane might be better.

I also think we need mascots and mottos.

[Karenwith4]

We have one for when we need to sound schoolish - usually for free stuff. It's RiverPark Academy b/c we are usually at the river or the park and our house is equidistant from both of them. (We've been playing w geometry today - can you tell? )

Karen

[Monica]

Mallory, are you stalking me? I swear girl!!! I post once a month and you find me every time!

and at Rainy View Academy (I live near Seattle for those who don't know me personally)

hmmm...a mission statement, I hadn't thought about doing that

[AprilDaisy]

We don't have a name...we thought hard about it when we first started this....nothing sounded quite right...so....we're nameless... lol Oh my....

[Attila the Honey]

My dd is only 2 so we aren't really homeschooling at this point (or any point, unschooling is what we are aiming for), but I made up a name to take advantage of some of the free offers and discounts out there.

Mousehole School for the Exceptionally Talented

Mousehole because dd's nickname has always been Miss Mousie and the rest because it just tickles me so when we get mail addressed in that way. :

[3momkmb]

Ours is Lakeside Academy because we live by a lake. I use it mainly on forms for free stuff. We also have a motto; "Learn to Live, Live to Learn".

[LeftField]

It's kind of a joke, but ours is, "The Frizzle Institute of Learning". It's a reference to the Magic Schoolbus. My kids really love that show and we like the philosophy of learning through discovery and tangents.

[nolonger]

We have to have a name to fill out the paperwork in our state, so our school is a memorial to my favorite Grandmother, who was a major inspiration to me as an AP parent more for her regrets and might-have-beens than for the opportunities that she actually had parenting her only son.

It just so happens that Gran always went by a nickname because she hated her pretentious real first name, so the kids and I have always found it amusing to make our school sound like a very snooty and exclusive upper crust prep school. When dd started 7th grade, we decided to switch from "elementary" to :"Memorial Academy", but I didn't let dd have her first choice of "Memorial Academy for Young Ladies".



We have a Latin motto too.

[PJsmomma]

Mallory! I loved you ideas

When I was homeschooled, we bought our books from a school in Ohio and were technically enrolled there so we used that name.

I was thinking (casually) about a name but couldn't come up with anything.

But out our window is a maple so Maple View Academy sounds official to me!

[bluehalo]

Ours is "(last name) School For Boys",
with the tagline: ~inspiration~education~perspiration~

:haha

It's tongue in cheek in that we realize that it sounds like a reform school ... and it sounds much more formal than we'll ever be. But it makes us laugh, so...

[Monica]

I came up with "Puddle Jumpers" for a preschool aged homeschool, but ended up sending my kids to Montessori preschool and now I think Puddle Jumpers sounds too young for elementary level kids. What do you think?
I like it because 1. we live near Seattle and have TONS of opportunity for puddle jumping and 2. it exemplifies my attitudes about children and well um...puddles. We won't live here forever as dh is military but I guess we could change our name to reflect our region? Or i could just stick with it. hmmm will have to think on it a bit.

[Mary-Beth]

Thanks for the tips Mallory...that helped ius get some ideas.
We have a garden out our wondow so...Garden View Homeschool??? Which would be nice too becasue we kind of got started from watching the birds visit this garden, refilling the bird feeders, and looking up the birds we see in our garden to identify them. However, I tend to ignore this garden so it has too many weeds and spent plants then I care to call attention to! If we go with this name I will have to pay better attention to the garden!

My dd calls us Mama School. I don't know why since it's really her school and dh helps a lot. This summer while swimming I said, "you can learn a lot in the pool." and she said, "It's a cool pool school" so all summer we've refered to our selves as doing some pool school.

The reason I want a mission statement is for my own clarity on what I'm doing and why...when I have doubts it could help me remember what is important to me.

[Fiddlemom]

We are at present Pokey the Porcupine Academy. We saw a young porcupine grazing on clover at the top of Mt. Battie near Camden, Maine a couple weeks ago. My kids were completely smitten with it. Charlie named it 'Pokey'. I came up with this fun name for our homeschool. Once in years past we were Tomathy Turtle Preschool, named after a turtle we used to see in Maryland and the stories I used to tell about him.

So, I guess thus far we are on animal themes!

[Stayseeliz]

I want the word "grace" to somehow be incorporated into our school name but I don't think I want to go with Grace Academy. I think I'm going to find an interesting Hebrew or Greek version of the word grace. Like Caris Academy. That is, if we decide not to use the name Caris for a girl!! Although my brother currently has that names locked down if they have a girl!