Co-op in Review: April 7, 2016

This week in co-op we began our time together with a service project.  As a class, we made blessing bags, filled with water, snacks, chopstick and other essentials.  These bags are to be handed out to homeless people we meet as we are going about our lives.  After putting together the bags, we headed to our individual classes.  The Tapestry students are learning about a change in the attitude of the British towards her American colonies.  Before the French and Indian War, Britain was pretty hands-off with the colonies.  But, after the war, Britain was in debt and felt like she needed to start taxing the colonies more and more.  The Americans became more and more agitated.  And, groups like the Sons of Liberty started forming and demonstrations like the Boston Tea Party began happening.  Things are getting rather stirred up, and some are even talking of Revolution.  The Rhetoric class started painting wooden Revolutionary soldiers.  The Dialectic class did a Revolutionary War simulation.  The Upper Grammar class made wooden soldiers as well.  The Lower Grammar class wrote with quill pens and made a journal.  And, the Five in a Row class read the classic, crazy-weather tale, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."  They then made mobiles with pictures of food.