Happy New Year! It's a brand new year, and we are super excited to be back at co-op learning and doing some awesome things! This week, the Upper Grammar and Lower Grammar classes both studied the Elizabethan Era. They learned about an amazing lady, and ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was never married, instead devoting herself to her country. Under Elizabeth, there was a cultural explosion in England, most notably in theater. Shakespeare became a very popular playwright, as theaters started to be built in and around London. To celebrate this development, both of the Tapestry classes made intricately decorated Elizabethan masks. Downstairs, the little ones read the story, "Animals in Winter." This book teaches children what different kinds of animals do during winter: hibernate, migrate or adapt. The kids then pretended they were geese migrating in search of food and then they made bird feeders out of ice cream cones, peanut butter and birdseed.
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