This semester I am teaching a Journalism/Yearbook class at our co-op. Our co-op meets once a week and offers classes ranging in everything from preschool to gemstones and minerals. Classes are taught by volunteers and they teach whatever they are interested in so we have a wonderful variety; Sign Language, Music, Art, Book Illustration, Cooking, Architecture, History, Felicity's World. There is something for everyone!
For my class I am using High Five Media Literacy units. It is three unit program that includes journalism, reading, writing and grammar. I had to pick and chose from the lessons because there are more lessons than weeks in our co-op, and shorten some of them for some of my younger students, but it is working wonderfully. The kids are really enjoying it!
I have 8 kids from 4th-8th grade in the class so our paper has 8 sections: Local News, World News, Feature, Editorial, Comic/Puzzle, Sports, Advice/How To and Review. We publish a paper each week and the students rotate through the different sections so that everyone gets to write once for each section.
Do you participate in a homeschool co-op? What kinds of classes do you offer?
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