Everyone was so excited to start our co-op this year! River City Homeschool Adventures, or RCHA for short, is a great learning experience which we attend three times a month. Our first co-op this year was so much fun and we are all looking forward to the rest of the year.
Our classes this year are:
- Assembly: games, performances, and more
- Nature Study (study, sketching, & watercolor painting of plants and animals): birds, mammals, and wildflowers
- PE: various sports and games
- ACP (Artist, Composer, Poet): First semester is Winslow Homer, Tchaikovsky, and Emily Dickinson
- Geography: South America and Australia
- Discovery Form 2 (grades 3-5): Backyard Ballistics, Disney Science of Imagineering, and Science/Art/101 things
- Discovery Form 3 (grades 6-8): Art, Backyard Ballistics, and Science (Chemistry)
This week in particular, we learned:
How to make paint (middle school only)
How to make a marshmallow shooter and how a potato gun works (3rd grade only)
How to observe and sketch nature in our nature journals
About the artist Winslow Homer and the poet Emily Dickinson (introductions), including studying Home Sweet Home (Winslow) and I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Dickinson)
How to shoot a basketball in PE
How to locate four of Australia's seven states and territories in Geography
Here are some photos from ACP today:
Listening to a biographical introduction to Winslow Homer
Home Sweet Home by Homer
A look at two Union soldiers after the devastating Battle of Fredericksburg, one of the costliest battles of the American Civil War with 18,000 casualties. The band in the background is playing the song Home Sweet Home, a song that was well known by both sides as they longed for home.
At the park after co-op, showing off their new marshmallow shooters!
Which part of co-op did your child enjoy the first day? Feel free to share in the comments below.
Happy Learning!
