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Co-op Happenings: Little Nino’s Pizzeria

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This year, Ben and I are trying something new. For one day a week, I let someone else teach him, while I teach a classroom of 8 wiggly, giggly kindergarten and first-graders.  Yep, we’re in an organized co-op!  I have co-op’ed in an rather unorganized fashion for the past 2 years with a couple of sweet friends.  We choose a subject (usually the week before) and have fun together one afternoon a week).  Most of the fun occurs when the kids go off to play and mommas hang out and chat.  But the new co-op is not like that.
 
Nope, the new co-op is a real co-op.  Not much time for momma’s to chat or kids to play, but it is still fun!  One of the cool things about our new co-op is that it is a unit study co-op.  Can I hear an “amen!?!?” I have dreamed of having a unit study co-op for years, but it wasn’t until last fall when my pastor spoke the fateful words, “we should start a co-op here at Lakewood,” that I begin to see it as a real possibility.

After several months of hard work, the leadership team (all 4 of us), had worked out the details: we decided to use the Five in a Row curriculum, chose the units for each grade level, PreK-8th, found some families willing to commit (and teach!), wrote a handbook, created a statement of faith, shopped for supplies, and started registration!

We have 11 amazing families with 31 bright, creative kids, in 5 classrooms plus a nursery. In addition to the unit study class time, we have a PE class for each student, and the middle schoolers have an apologetics class, taught by the aforementioned pastor,  as well.

Things are going so well.  God has richly blessed this group of families.  I’m loving watching friendships develop between parents and children, and everyone is learning so much!

So far, in my class, we have done units on The Story About Ping, Grandfather’s Journey, Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car, and today, Little Nino’s Pizzeria.  I have been horrible about remembering my camera, but today I finally remembered!  It would have helped to have remembered to take it out of my purse earlier, but I did remember toward the end of the day and took a couple of pictures.

This is our yeast experiment. We actually had 2 bowls, one we added sugar to, and the other we did not. The children learned that yeast is alive and when you “feed” it (add sugar), it becomes frothy and bubbly.  Of course, they also learned the it makes bread rise, but that’s beside the point!

 

This is my adorable class, minus 1, with their “Pizza LapBoxes.”  We usually create some kind of lapbook each week,with construction paper or the usual file folder.  But I had the idea to use a pizza box for this one. The kids were very proud!  Thank you to Pizza Hut in Middletown,KY for donating the boxes!
 
 
 
This is the front of one of the LapBoxes.  Each child decorated their own pizzeria “store fronts.”
 
 
 
Here’s the inside of the LapBox.  As you can see, we learned a lot about pizza, nutrition, and Italy!  And of course, you must have a pizza inside your pizza box, so the children each decorated a “dream pizza.”
 
 
 
Oh yeah, we made pizza for lunch!  We used English muffins for the pizza dough and they turned out really yummy.  I had several toppings for the kids to choose from, including green peppers, mushrooms, onions and pepperoni.  Not a one would eat anything but cheese or pepperoni on their pizzas! But I tried. I am convinced they’ll still eat all of their colorful veggies at home.  Right kids?
 

 

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