Co-op in Review: April 4, 2014

This was the second week of the Dialectic class' study of economics and politics.  The UG class was invited over for a friendly game!  Each student was give a set amount of Hershey's kisses and the kids had to compete with each other to earn more.  Sometimes they won, sometimes they lost.  Some got rich and some got poor.  Then their winnings were "equalized" and those who had none were thrilled while those who had become rich were angry.  It was a great way to demonstrate concepts like competition and socialism.  The Grammar classes both studied the life of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President.  The Upper Grammar class made clay peanuts-because Carter was a peanut farmer (and a nuclear physicist!) and the Lower Grammar class made neat houses out of paper bags, because Jimmy Carter was very active in Habitat for Humanity, a charity that builds homes for those who could not afford them!  The Five in a Row class read the book, "Little Nino's Pizzaria".  And, then they became like Nino and made pizzas of their own out of card stock and shredded paper.  So cute!