Co-op in Review: August 8, 2013

This week, the co-op kids learned about two huge disasters and one huge accomplishment!  The Grammar level kids studied the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic!  The Great San Francisco Earthquake was a disaster in and of itself, but the fires that it set off throughout the city were even a greater problem.  But as we've learned before in history, people are resilient and the city was soon rebuilt and fully functional.   The kids also read about the sinking of the Titanic.  There are many safety lessons to be learned when we study the Titanic, but the biggest lesson to take away is that only God is sovereign and that promises made by man ("this ship is unsinkable") can fail while God's faithfulness is absolute.  The older kids as well studied the building of the Panama Canal.  What seemed impossible due to mountainous terrain, disease and horrible working conditions became a reality as the Americans completed the waterway connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific.  This week, the Upper Grammar class and the Dialectic class both made models of the Titanic out of wood kits.  They turned out great!  The Lower Grammar class made simple, working seismographs out of shoe boxes.  They had fun seeing if they would really work! And, the Five in a Row class read the book, "How to Make and Apple Pie and See the World."  It's a deliciously silly book that takes readers all over the world gathering ingredients for an apple pie!  The kids then made little apple pies out of fabric.  Yummy!