This week's co-op was bittersweet, as we said goodbye to our dear friends, the Reynolds. Mark, Jennifer, Jadon, Jonah and Julia will soon be moving to Oregon. We are excited for their new adventure, but sad to see this precious family leave our co-op! The Reynolds family will be dearly missed!! We presented Jennifer with a bouquet of flowers and a recipe book from the Tapestry of the Desert families. Afterwards, we had a little Thanksgiving/November birthday celebration. The kids decorated cupcakes with frosting, sprinkles and M&Ms. Yum! Then Mrs. Glazier read a special Thanksgiving story and talked to the kids about thankfulness. During our class time, both the Upper Grammar and Lower Grammar classes learned about the Israelites entry into the Promised Land, the faith of a woman named Rahab and the conquest of Jericho by a God-fearing and God-trusting man named Joshua. The Upper Grammar class made picture frames decorated with twelve stones, in the same vein the Israelites made a monument with twelve stones after they entered the Promised Land. The Lower Grammar class made models of Rahab's house out of cereal boxes, complete with a rope to lower the spies to the ground. The Five in a Row class read the story, "Down Down the Mountain." It's a charmingly illustrated tale of children living in the Blue Ridge of Appalachia. The kids then planted seeds in little pots to celebrate the green of this beautiful region of our country.
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