She’s an absolute treasure to our local CM families because she’s been leading Nature Study outings for us for the past few years.

And she recently began offering those Nature Study classes online through The Plenary! 

Her Field Notes Friday classes have been a BIG HIT this summer! Families from all over the country have come together to do Nature Study together in Lari Jo’s classes. 

In fact, it was the absolute success of the Field Notes Friday classes that convinced me that we needed a Charlotte Mason co-op so that we could have more of the community-building and personal interaction that I saw in those classes!

I had been thinking about creating an online CM co-op for a while (the idea had been stewing in the back of my brain for years!), but it was the Field Notes Friday classes that showed me, not only was it possible, but it was also truly needed!

I suddenly saw how so many families could benefit from the online classes and a private forum to go along with them.

True relationships and community can be formed online – just ask me and Amy Bodkin! We’ve been “online friends” for almost 10 years (we met in an online homeschooling forum) but only met in real life for the first time ever last month when we were both guest speakers at The Great Homeschool Convention!

Ours is a friendship born and nurtured online and yet it is very real “in real life.”