Co-op in Review: February 13, 2014

This week, our co-op time together started off with a fabulous Valentine's Party.  What better thing to celebrate than love?  After all, we can only love because Jesus first loved us!  The kids took turns writing one word descriptions of each other on hearts and hanging them on the "love tree."  It was adorable and the kids loved reading the loving things others said about them!  Then it was time to exchange Valentines and eat some yummy treats, like popcorn, chocolate and cupcakes!  In our classes, the Dialectic class completed their Civil Rights study.  This was the day of the presentations and the kids did great.  Each of them presented on their assigned Civil Rights leader and the other students asked some very well reasoned questions of them afterwards!  The Upper Grammar class previewed the space race and they made some awesome space suits!!  The Lower Grammar class made adorable busses out of egg cartons--to bring to life the freedom rides and the problems of bus segregation.  The Five in a Row class read the book, "The Very Last First Time."  It's the story of a young girl who lives in the arctic.  She goes into an ice cave by herself for the first time and discovers a world of sea treasures!  The kids then learned more about life in the arctic by making igloos out of marshmallows and they also made watercolor polar bear landscapes.