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Muons

Weekly Summary: Muons – Writer’s Workshop

We explored the WONDERFUL world of summary, which will take three class meetings. This first round involved reviewing what summaries are and why we do them. Some students had STRONG feelings about summary (negative, of course), so I encouraged them

co-op January 24, 2023 Muons, Weekly Summary Read more

Gym: Relays, Red Light, Green Light

Both classes opened with great stretching and then a quick run around the pavilion and back. We moved into relays — bear crawls and crab crawls, and the winning team (in both classes) chose to finish up with a rousing

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Personal Finance: Careers & Investing

The first week, we went through several personal inventories (interests, skills, values, etc) and discovered good career matches. The students didn’t have to choose one of these to build their future lives (and budget) on. Week 2, Elizabeth walked them

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Gym: Power Words & Team Challenges

Please forgive me for not sending a gym recap sooner. Here’s the gist of what we’ve been up to so far this season. We started with a power word running activity the first official day of co-op to focus our

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Art: Beginning Clay

I had such a great time sharing clay with the kids. They all did their best! It was wonderful to see their different approaches to the same directions. I shared a method of hand building to create vessels. We smacked

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Art: Introduction to Photography

This week we started the photography portion of the Muons Art Class! We started with some quick background, by asking everyone to think of an example of a photo they have seen in the past week. We talked about photography

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Gym: Relays and Climbing

Neutrons, Electrons, and Muons led our warm-ups today and enjoyed a running and mirror activity. They then competed in relays with pool noodles between their feet. Lots and lots of laughs! Quarks enjoyed their climbing spot together. It’s so fascinating

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Writing Workshop: Final Drafts!

It was so fun listening to and celebrating all the final drafts today! The kids worked really hard on writing throughout this co-op year & I am very proud of all of them! Thanks also to the parents for all

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Psychology: Core Emotions

Alicia’s psychology course delved into emotionality and, more specifically, core emotions. This was a continuation of the previous week’s discussion of emotions, which revealed that, actually, only a tiny percentage of humans can repress their emotions. So much for our

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Art: Embroidery

🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳Super happy to see all the kids tried this project! We used needlepoint fabric, embroidery thread, and big needles to create designs. I showed them 4 examples of the possible directions they could take their project.

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