Mrs. Anna

Director, Creative Writing, Art

Mrs. Anna is the Director of Mariposa Homeschool Co-Op. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities with concentrations in Art and Communication from the University of Texas-Permian Basin. After spending seven years practicing massage therapy and energy work, Mrs. Anna decided to venture into homeschooling with her daughter and fell in love with it. This led her to create, design and implement the art program at Southwest YMCA for students between the ages of four and nine. Students explored great artists, movements, styles, elements and principles of art as well as fun seasonal activities. In December 2014, Mrs. Anna hosted the Holiday Arts and Crafts event for the Southwest YMCA and the Annual Art Show in May 2015. She is a freelance writer and editor. Her interests include reading, writing, water color, painting, glass fusion, wreath making, cake decorating, foreign languages, martial arts and horses. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree.

 

Ms. Barbie

Assistant Instructor

 

Miss Barbie is the teacher assistant at Mariposa Homeschool Co-Op. She is a graduate of Del Valle High School. She is currently pursuing her Child Development Associate with Texas A&M Extension. In her free time, Miss Barbie dabbles in do it yourself crafts, explores different music genres and costume make up styling.

 

 

Mrs. Barbara, Kyo Sa Nim

Martial Arts Instructor

 

Barbara King started training in Kuk Sool Won in April 2003. She earned her first degree black belt in October 2008 and earned her second degree black belt in November 2012 from the World Kuk Sool Won Association. Barbara brings a unique perspective to her teaching, not only as a parent of two black belt teenage boys, but also having trained at three different Kuk Sool Won schools, she incorporates all the knowledge she’s learned as a parent, student, and instructor in her classes. Her favorite class to teach is the Tiny Tigers class because “the noticeable progress and development at this age is very rewarding and fulfilling as an instructor.” Kyo Sa Nim Barbara had the honor of receiving Senior 1st Dahn Grand Champion in 2012.

 

Mr. Douglas

Guitar Instructor

 

Mr. Music aka Douglas Roberts has been playing guitar over 35 years in various acoustic and electric bands.With Mr. Music's teaching method your child will become familiar with guitar chords, song structure, rhythm, and scales. Your child will develop an ear for music, enabling them to listen to a song and figure it out just by hearing it.

 

Ms. Sally

Knitting, Crocheting

 

Sally’s mother taught her the basic crochet chain stitch at about 4 or 5, but she really learned knitting and crochet in the third grade. Some of the highlights of her knitting and crochet career include crocheting an afghan for a “talent show” in the 5th grade and finishing a granny square afghan started by her great grandmother in the 7th grade. She was featured in the Herrschner’s needlework catalog for being one of the youngest contestants in the Herrschner’s Grand National Afghan Contest when she was in the 7th or 8th grade. She participated in “A Knitted Wonderland”, a “yarn bombing” art installation in front of the Blanton Museum, in 2011. Later in 2014, she started volunteering as a knitting and crochet instructor at Englewood Estates, an assisted living facility near Sunset Valley. Sally has learned dabbled in other types of fiber arts and needlework, including spinning yarn, dying yarn, wet felting, needle felting, basic macramé (mainly friendship bracelets and survival bracelets), and needlepoint and cross stitch. Sally loves to reassure her students by reminding them her favorite thing about knitting “How many opportunities in life do you have to completely undo all your mistakes and start over?"

 

Mrs. Elisa

Spanish

 

Sra. Elisa is probably the only Georgia Alaruvian you will ever meet. Her father is from Alabama, her mother is Peruvian, and she grew up in Georgia. That meant dinner time included fried chicken y arroz (rice) with peach pie for dessert!! YUMMY! She moved to Texas in 2006 and became a certified bilingual early childhood educator. After 7 successful years of teaching, mentoring, and training others within Austin ISD, she had her first child, Myles, in 2014. At that point she decided to take her teaching passion in a new direction. She incorporated her most successful teaching tools like movement, music, technology, literature and a dash of humor and created a program called Bilingual Boogie to help children learn Spanish. She currently offers her classes at various preschools around south Austin and is very excited about joining the Mariposa Co-op