Coop's elementary school teacher Mr. Joe had a sign-up sheet for parents to come sit in the classroom and observe for an hour. When I walked in, Barrett, a third-year student, welcomed me and said "ma'am, would you like some tea?" I said yes, and he brought me a tray of ten tea packets to choose from. He took the one I selected, microwaved some water, and brought me tea and a slice of banana bread.
(Apparently, Coop told Mr. Joe that I only drink Diet Coke, but Mr. Joe said he wasn't going to buy pop just for one person.)
With my tea and banana bread, I pulled up a chair and sat near Coop's work space. He used this board (with small beads) to do a math problem: 36 divided by 9 times 3.
Mr. Joe gathered a group of third-year students and gave them a group lesson on parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb).
And then Coop got out the "checkerboard" to do big multiplication problems. Something like 3465 times 23. Pretty impressive work.
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