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American Girls Co-op Class

February 24, 2014 by ami 3 Comments

American Girls Homeschool Co-op Class

My sweet and smart friend, Brandy, created and taught this class last fall. Our co-op ran 12 weeks, so she chose four American Girl dolls and decided to focus on each one for three weeks. 

Each week, the girls were encouraged to go home and read one book about the featured doll. During the tea parties, the girls would discuss the books they read. The girls also completed the Where in the World? map mini-books for each doll as part of their history weeks.

Felicity 
Week 1: History Week
Learn about the founding fathers. Were they founders or traitors? 

Week 2: Craft Week
Make hornbooks (from plastic cutting boards at the Dollar Tree) and quill pens.

Week 3: Tea Party
Gingerbread cake, apple-butter, and tea.

Felicity Craft: Hornbook

Josefina
Week 4: History Week
Santa Fe Trail and Pueblo Indians

Week 5: Craft Week
Make cornhusk dolls

Week 6: Tea Party
Mexican hot chocolate and biscochitos

American Girl Co-op Class

Rebecca
Week 7: History Week
Jewish Emigrants and Immigrants? 

Week 8: Craft Week
Menorahs

Week 9: Tea Party
Challah and pomegranates juice* 
​We were blessed to have a Russian Jew guest speaker come to our tea!
*The Jews believed that each seed in the pomegranate represented a law.

American Girl Class: Rebecca (crafting menorahs)

Kit Kittredge
Week 10: History Week
The Great Depression

Week 11: Craft Week
(Recycled Project) Cereal Box Beads

Week 12: Tea Party
Poor Man's Cake and Kool-Aid

American Girl Class: Kit's Tea

Filed Under: co-op capers, creative cooperative classes Tagged With: American Girl co-op class, American Girl history, American Girl homeschool, co-op class ideas, homeschool co-op class for girls, homeschool history

Comments

  1. Ashley says

    July 28, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    I love all the wonderful craft ideas!!  I am teaching a Felicity class at our homeschool co-op and would love more information on the hornbooks and quill pens. Thanks!

  2. Emily says

    July 14, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    This is fabulous!!! So did she read the books aloud during co-op or were the girls to have read the ahead of time?

  3. ami says

    July 24, 2021 at 10:44 am

    The girls read ahead of time. 🙂

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