Back into the swing of things

After a 3 week Christmas break, we resumed co-op today. Tomorrow we break out the books for the other subjects.

For World History, we are continuing our medieval studies, these will culminate on January 30 with a medieval feast, and celebration. Each level (primarily the dialectic and rhetoric) have been assigned "roles" in the feast. They will dress as knights, peasants or any other character from that age. We are continuing with Story of the World Vol 2, which I am enjoying as much if not more than the kids.

The new semester starts with a new book, this time Treasure Island. I am looking forward to reading this with the kids. Their teacher has found some awesome activites in the past, and I look forward to seeing what she has found for this book.

Science we are starting Zoo1 from Apolgia for Flying Creatures. We had started this book, but set it aside, for which now I am grateful. With this book the kids will be compiling a lapbook.

The kids were thrilled to see their friends, I was happy to see the kindergarteners. As one of my kindertots says, it was like coming for the first time all over again because of the fact that we had such a long break, however, it did not take long for them to settle in again.

We had a new girl for my kindergarten class, however I dont think her mom will come back. She is looking for a structured kindergarten class, my attitude with the blessing of the mothers is we will have fun and play and maybe learn a thing or two in the process. These are all "young" kindergarteners and the ages and abilities of each differ to far to try to attempt a structured class. This works for us.

I did find a "curriculum" that we are going to loosely follow. Each week a different country, next week we will do crafts, snacks and a game from Africa. We will then assign them "homework" of praying for missionaries and Christians in Africa.