Co-op in Review: January 29, 2015

This week, we learned about the Assyrians,  who God raised up to punish Israel for their sin of idolatry.  It was the Assyrians that conquered the Northern Kingdom.  We learned about their culture, economy, government and religion.  But, most of all, about their almost barbaric military practices.  The Dialectic/Rhetoric class discussed the Assyrians and the prophets that God raised up at this time in history.  They also took time in class to present their projects on the historical figure they were assigned to research for the past several weeks.  The Upper Grammar class made Assyrian frieze or relief sculptures out of clay. The Lower Grammar class got messy and creative as they painted Assyrian banners.  And, in Five in a Row, the class read the book, "Mirette on a High Wire."    It's the story of a little girl who lives in a Paris boarding house and is taught how to walk a high wire by a famous high wire artist.  But, it is really Mirette who teaches the lesson on how to conquer fear!  The kids then made three dimensional street scenes of Paris, with cut-outs of themselves walking on the high wire above the city!