Science, a Third Grade Favorite

Composing like John Cage. Thank you Hannah!

By Robert

Learning about the music John Cage music has been entertaining so far. We're looking forward to accomplishing the goal set ahead of us of composing music and setting it to film. We're working on communicating the vast differences between chaos and control through this music. So far we've collected different noises to play throughout our music, and we're starting to work on possible melodies. Some of the noises include: Squeaking shoes, popping jaws, and water bottles. The melodies are still in their beginning stages but slowly but surely they will develop. And when they do, the noises, plus the music, will be amazing. Music is great, and I love being able to use it creatively.

Boys will be Boys! Thank you Pastor Kidd!

By Liam T.

Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month, Pastor Kidd arrives to teach us about the Five Pillars of Manhood. He spends mere moments explaining how we should live our lives, but that message will stay with us forever. After this time of discipleship, Pastor Kid flexes his muscles in the bi-weekly “gun show” and is still the undefeated champion. When he is around, he encourages us to stay on track with our characteristics and devotions… Here’s to you Pastor Kidd, “Thank you.”

Great Game! Thank You Miss Lori!

Searching The World

By Liam

Let the games begin! Each week, on Tuesday at 2:30, we begin to test out knowledge on the countries of the world. Miss Lori holds up a card and asks us questions pertaining to the certain country, 15 in all. We take turns guessing (or for some, answering), each time one wrong answer is given, another hint is provided and 1 point is taken away. Other times she holds up a picture card and asks a question from there, questions like “What is the capital of Australia?”. The scores are tallied and the winner is shown, sometimes the winner stands out like snow in a desert, often times the scores are only off by 5 points, once in a blue moon there is a tie. Oh, by the way, the answer is Canberra.

Drawing is Line, Texture, Value, and Shape

Lunchtime Amusements

Poker

By Jonathan

So who doesn’t like poker? I mean, it’s addicting fun, it’s challenging, and above all it’s pure luck! Well, to tell you the truth, we’re really not playing “poker,” we’re playing ‘21,” poker just sounds more professional. The game of “21” is when you get cards and see who gets the closest to or 21 points without going over. The chips that you see us playing with are not real. No, we wouldn’t dare play for real money, all of us except for Hunter, that is. We’ve all had our good games, but mostly we play just for fun! Though I must admit that I hope I hit the jackpot next time we play!

 

 J

“Game On!”

Research Project

Blake’s Teaching Experience

By Blake

It was a lot of fun teaching Soren, Michael, and Isaiah. These 3 out of 4 little dudes in our co-op were cooperative and were good learners. The reason I was teaching them was because Liam and Jonathan were on a trip, so I was the loner in our group. It was kind of cool being the teacher for one day. I went over things like animals, and land. They had to choose an animal to research. It was really awesome being the teacher at Waterhouse. I would love to do it again.  

Writing about Chocolate, Discovering Place

Chocolate, Countries and Boys (Mix Well and Stir into a Poem)
By Darian

Chocolate wrappers everywhere make up this colorful picture. What is the meaning of this mess? Last week our writing workshop tasted many different chocolates bars from around the world, rated them, and then wove flavor we liked best into vivid poetry.

In between tasting chocolates from countries like Peru, Ecuador, and Switzerland, we cleaned our mouths with pretzels and water. Then we proceeded to carry out our mission of writing about our favorite chocolate bar. Describing what it tasted like with words such as creamy, milky, dark, raspberry-ish, unsatisfying, disgusting and gross made us laugh out loud. We ranked the chocolates by giving them stars from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest and 1 the lowest ranking. The least favorite chocolate of all was the Prime Peruvian Bar whose taste can not be described with words… ?>!@#$!!:(!!!

After picking a personal favorite, we were challenged to write a poem about the bar and its place of origin and how they related to each other. Following are some excerpts... watch for all of the poems in Reveal Spring 2009.

Building a California Mission. Thanks Mammam!

Photography Keeps it Moving. Thanks Papa!

Snap, Snap!

Taylor

 

In 2009, our coop started a Photography lesson. It’s been snap, snap ever since! We started by taking pictures of apples to learn all the facts about how a camera works. We tried placing them in different parts of the camera, we tried putting them in different surroundings, we tried everything! It was lots of fun. After tons of apple photos, we finally graduated to taking pictures of moving cars. During this session, we learned about being the perfect paparazzi; you have to be quick and hope no one sees you! After that we started to take pictures of all sort of things, paper boats, street signs, and so on. So to this day in in the future it will be snap snap!

Show vs. Tell

By Andrew

Photography is the way we express our thoughts, through image.  We prefer to show than tell.  It’s more poetic that way.  The pictures we are showing right now didn’t take that much thought, we just take ‘um, and they end up really cool, some even reward winners.  Papa, our photography teacher taught us about the whole camera itself, about the aperture, the lens, and all that other basic stuff you’d learn about in any photography class, but the catch is our photography class is special.