Spring CONCERT for the Junior Choir
Cono Christian Day School Mission
Ridge Haven Cono seeks to serve the community of Walker, Iowa, and surrounding areas by partnering with families in the Christian education of their children and young adults. Through small class sizes, Cono Christian Day School teachers and staff serve as gifted educators with a solidly Biblical worldview and passionate care for the next generation.
2023-2024 School Year Details
Ridge Haven Cono is offering two styles of educational partnership to families for the 2023 - 2024 school year.
Cono Christian Day School — serves middle and high school students for full days, Monday through Friday. Ridge Haven teachers provide the main instruction for students using homeschool curriculum. The students receive supplementary support in the home with what they are doing in the classroom.
Homeschool co-op (lower school) — serves elementary students on a weekly basis. Students who participate in our homeschool co-op are receiving the bulk of their weekly education at home. These students come to us to experience supplemental classes to enhance their education. The Homeschool Co-op group meets on Friday afternoons. This Fall semester the students from the School and the Co-op will work together to put on a production of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." Art classes will work on sets and props and theater classes will be taught. Play practice will be after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the performance will be on December 15.
Schedule: School days are from 8:30am – 3:30pm
School Calendar: HERE
Dual Enrollment Options: Through dual enrollment, students may take advantage of the local public school’s sports, choir, band, and other options. Community college credits are also available through Kirkwood Community College.
Registration Process: Apply using the red button at the top of this page. We will instruct you as to how to sign up with your local school district.
New Student Tuition:
· $3,000 per year - 1st Child
· $2,250 per year - 2nd Child
· $1,500 per year - 3rd Child
Scholarships are readily available thanks to the generosity of our donors— please contact us to find out more!
Curriculum
Ridge Haven Cono utilizes the literature-based Sonlight Christian Homeschool Curriculum. We aim to bring the very best of the family homeschool and academic classroom models into one learning environment. Under the instruction and mentorship of our teachers, students will learn in a loving and joyful Christian context.
This school year the students will be studying Ancient to Modern World History, connecting the flow of human history from creation through the present. Bible, Literature, and History will all tie together providing a sweeping overview of this period. Language Arts will focus on grammar, narrative writing, analytical writing, research, and oral presentations. Science will focus on Conservation, Robotics and Technology. Math will be age appropriate. In addition, we will continue to offer choir, which meets two days a week.
Paige and I homeschooled our three kids through the 9th and 10th grades. We used the Sonlight curriculum and were extremely pleased. All three of our kids went on to graduate school in Education, Medicine, and Seminary. I remember when our middle son called from college saying that he was considering changing majors as he wanted to be a medical doctor. We reminded him that he did not have many science courses under his belt, and it was already too late for him to get into the pre-med track without going extra semesters. I will never forget his response: “Dad, you’re right, I haven’t taken a lot of science classes. But, in homeschooling we learned to love to read, to learn, and how to study. I can do it.” And do it he did—without having to stay any extra semesters. I have never been so thankful for the years we invested in their schooling that gave our kids their love of learning and friendships that are lasting a lifetime. That is our desire for RH Cono.
Wallace Anderson, Executive Director
Staff
Rebecca Gojda (Teacher, mentor): Becca is a licensed Iowa 6-12th grade teacher. She was born and raised in and around Augusta, Georgia. She was a faithful and exciting part of our summer team at Cono for four summers. In 2020 she became a Walker resident after graduating from the University of Georgia. rebecca.gojda@ridgehaven.org
Rose Rehberg (Algebra II Teacher)
Shannan Meadows (Co-op Teacher)
Katie Cook (Co-op Teacher)
Wallace Anderson MDiv, MA, MM, (Executive Director): Wallace has been with the Presbyterian Church in America for over 30 years working at Covenant Theological Seminary, their mission agency, Mission to the World (MTW), and at Covenant College, before coming to Ridge Haven, the camp and retreat center of the PCA in 2009. wallace@ridgehaven.org
Facilities
Location
Ridge Haven Cono is located in Walker, Iowa, which is about thirty minutes from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and around two and a half hours from Des Moines. Ridge Haven Cono is only about four hours from Minneapolis and only five hours from Chicago and St. Louis! Ridge Haven Cono is just eleven miles from exit 35 on I-380.