Co-op This Week

For co-op this week we discussed forms of government. I think maybe I did a little too much for the age levels, but the older kids seemed to get the idea. The other thing I thought, afterwards, is that we ought to do the group time first. Then the kids aren't as antsy. Anyway, we played a game. The first part was to demonstrate a Democracy by voting on a punishment for the crimes of two of the young ladies in the group. The boys all voted for execution. (Go figure!) Next we demonstrated a Republic (after reviewing Ex. 18) by separating into 3 'towns' and electing representatives. At first I thought that the kids were too antsy that day to 'get' the message. But at the end, when I asked which model represented the needs of the individual better, I got the right answer. :-) Cool!