Co-op in Review: August 25, 2016

Week 4 of our co-op year brings us to the best land deal in all of American (maybe world?) history:  The Louisiana Purchase.  It was a deal that almost didn't happen, but thanks to Jefferson's negotiators, and the fact that Napoleon was desperate for money in order to fight the British, it happened and the United States instantly doubled in size!  The older kids also studied the Jefferson presidency, his administration, his character and his religious beliefs.  While the younger kids studied the Lewis and Clark expedition, which was commissioned by Jefferson to explore the newly acquired lands.  The Dialectic class made model canoes, like those that would have been used by Lewis and Clark. The Upper Grammar class made board games and played a Lewis and Clark adventure game, and they also made field journals, like the Lower Grammar class.  The Lower Grammar class also made some awesome moccasins.  The Five in a Row class read the book, "Library Lion."  They then made cute lion faces out of paper plates.