Considering Home Schooling Coffee Meet-ups!

Join us for coffee & chat!

Have you ever considered home schooling? Maybe you’re unhappy with your children’s current educational situation, or maybe you’re worried about getting a place for the fall. You’ve thought about it, but you don’t know much about it, and you have no idea even where to go or whom to ask. We’ve got ya covered!
Introducing “Considering Home Schooling” Coffee meet-ups!
If you’re considering taking charge of your children’s education and would like to know more from the folks actually doing it, come chat with current members of the Doha Home Educators to find out about how to begin, where to go & what to do. Current home schooling moms are happy to answer your questions, help to resolve your issues, and allay your fears. You CAN do this!

Please email us if you are interested in attending and we will send you the dates, times, and locations of our next event!

Successful Sailing Camp!

DHE sailors proudly show off their certificates.

DHE takes to the high seas! Some of our students recently had their first sailing camp with Regatta Sailing Academy. Our young sailors learned a lot and truly enjoyed the experience! We’ll be holding another camp in May, and are looking toward the possibility of getting a weekly class started. Sail on, mates!

 

Introducing Teen Movie Nights!

This spring, DHE is announcing a great opportunity for our older students to get together. Often plagued by increasing demands on their time between academics, sports, and other activities, our teens don’t  get as much pure “hanging out” time with other home schooled friends as they would like. We hope that Movie Nights for our 12 & ups will go some way to curing that. Our first one, featuring Lord of the Rings, was a raging success! If you are home schooling a teen, please email us for details on the next one!

 

Our 12 and ups gather for LOTR I.

After movie melee

Don’t worry – they’re only MOSTLY dead.

 

It’s Coming…

Spring Co-op 2013 is on the horizon! DHE is proud to be able to offer a chance for home schooled children in Doha not only to take a wide array of classes for a whole range of ages (2-15!), but also to have a great time of fellowship and unstructured fun on a regular basis.  Registration is open until the 21st, and weekly classes begin the 25th. Don’t miss it!

 

Spring is springing…with Spring Co-op 2013!

All Kinds of Art

DHE recently got to participate in a multi-week workshop with the Museum of Islamic Art, in which the children could explore different themes in different media. A good time was had by all!

DHE students get to explore various kinds of art in a multi-week workshop at the MIA.

Checking Out Yan Pei-Ming

Recently, DHE students visited the Qatar Museum Authority’s Katara Annex for a tour and workshop of Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming’s “Painting the History” which will be in Doha through January 12, 2013.

 

In the exhibit, Pei-Ming examines the history of revolution, and proposes the question of which had more influence – the revolutionary, or those trying to stop a revolution?

After seeing the exhibit, students used shading techniques with photographs from Pei-Ming’s Wall of Portraits to mimic some of the brush effects he put into his work.

 

Yan Pei-Ming’s Wall of Portraits.

Students display their work after a QMA workshop at Katara.

Spike compares his work to others done in the QMA Qatara workshop.

DHE – For Mums, Too

Some of our mums enjoying dinner together at a recent Mums’ Night Out.

 

Kids are not the only ones who need a good home school group! Moms, too, need to know that we are not alone, need to bounce ideas off one another, and need to be there for each other.  DHE tries to do monthly dinners and/or coffees, so that we hard-working home schooling mothers can have a chance to kick back and relax!

1001 Inventions

DHE was thrilled to be able to visit 1001 Inventions, an international exhibit currently at the Museum of Islamic Art, which shows the wonders of the Golden Age of the Muslim Civilization. Kudos to the MIA for bringing it to Doha!

Al Jazari’s famous Elephant Clock

Spike & Brandon check out some interactive exhibits

Examining the wonders of the astrological world as seen by astronomers in the Golden Age.

DHE students at 1001 Inventions

DHE Day at the Opera House

Doha Home Educators was pleased to be able to join in for the school program at the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra’s presentation of “Carnival of the Animals” by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It was a fabulous show!

 

DHE students are all smiles after enjoying a treat by the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra

AUTUMN CO-OP 2012 – IT’S ON!

DHE is so excited about our Autumn Co-op 2012! With a mix of both mom-led and professionally offered classes, nearly 30 families and nearly 70 students, this is the biggest cooperative learning effort in the DHE’s history. What an exciting time to be home schooling on Doha!

We have a wide range of classes offered this go, from ancient myths to modern robotics, physical education to knitting. Our students range from 4-14 and represent more than 10 different countries.

Below are some snapshots of our first week. Autumn Co-op runs through mid-November.

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