Greece Week 1

Last week was our first week of Greece. The week started off rough following a week of review & testing but we were able to pull it together by the end of the week.

The first day we spent tasting tasting some Greek foods. We had an olive tasting and by far the green olives won out :) They tried feta cheese spread on crackers and sprinkled some on their salads. I personally love feta cheese. They were just okay with it :) Of course we always love grapes so that was a freebie. And lastly, we made little english muffin pizzas which they had no problem devouring .

Did you know that the Greeks were the first to eat pizza, using it as a bread plate to pile food on top of ? The tomato sauce came later. They just used olive oil. But we decided to stick with the sauce:)


We also started a unit on the human body. right now we are briefly going over each body system. Last week it was the Integumentary System. We made fake blisters, looked at our hair under a magnifying glass ( need to invest in a microscope! ) and are in the process of our "smelly feet" project in which we are growing microbes from their dirty feet in gelatin.

This is our jar of gelatin for microbe growing

Vania collecting swabbing her feet for the gelatin jar

This week was also the last week of fall co op which I am sad about :( I will really miss getting together with our friends. On the other hand I am excited to see what classes we will be taking in the spring !