First Day of Co-op! August 4, 2016

Ahhhh!  It's co-op time again!  After a fabulous couple of weeks off for summer vacation, our 13 awesome co-op families were ready to get back together and start studying history together!  Our first co-op meeting of the 2016-2017 school year was Thursday, August 4, 2016.  All of our families returned from last year, and we didn't have any room to add others.  Since we didn't have to take time to get to know each other, we were able to jump right in to our studies! And, this year, we are in Year 3, which covers the 19th century--from Adam's presidency to the Spanish-American War.   This year, the Rhetoric class now meets a little earlier, in order to complete a class in Constitutional Law before Tapestry.  They are doing Michael Farris' Constitutional Literacy curriculum this year and they are sure to learn a lot.  They are also doing a complete Tapestry Rhetoric class as well, discussing their readings and going into the topics more in depth.  This week, they studied Napoleon's rise through the turmoil of the French Revolution.  The Dialectic class also learned about the turmoil in Europe, and how President Adams kept the United States out of those messy affairs.  They played an awesome jeopardy game, to help them review what they learned last year--and probably forgot over the summer!  The Upper Grammar class completed some really neat lap books on John Adams.  While the Lower Grammar class focused on their literature book this week, and made towers with Rapunzel's hair flowing from them.  They also learned that braiding is more challenging than it looks!  The Five in a Row class read the classic book, "Curious George."  They then made an adorable monkey craft--that looks just like George!