Thursday, November 10, 2016

Fall Co-op - Week 9 - Earning Money

Today's co-op class was about "How to Earn Money" - it was geared towards the middle school/high school students. The kids discussed whether or not they earn allowance, what chores/jobs they have to do to earn the allowance, etc. The instructor then led the kids to throw out ideas about jobs they could do during these youthful years: babysitting, fast food employee, bagger/cashier at a grocery store, etc.

It gave the kids something to think about. It put the wheels in motion about "earning" their pocket change, instead of being "handed" everything.

Here's my ray of sunshine (Claudia) listening attentively...hopefully, taking it all in, lol.

I don't normally post any pics of Claudia during her PE class, because the pics are usually not of her alone and I want to respect the privacy of the other students. Today, however, I got some of her alone at clean up time.


This one is fuzzy, but it was funny, so I posted it anyway.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Fall Co-op - Week 8 - Engineering

Another day of Engineering - fun building with marshmallows and toothpicks.



If you'll notice the instruction sheet, there are many ways to build the structures.


Claudia's finished product looks awesome! The instructor told me that her structure was probably the sturdiest of all the projects, because of the way she chose to build it...yay!!