we have a co op committee meeting thursday night and we need some fresh ideas.
what do you do in your co-ops?

We did geography last year. The first couple of weeks were just getting an idea about oceans, continents, directions, basic land forms, reading map, etc. I thought it started getting fun when we started profiling a different country each week. Parents took turns, and we learned about the physical geography, language, culture, and, frequently, cuisine of the different countries.

This year, we're diving the kids up for part of it (we have a really broad age range). We're doing an explorers/inventors overview of history using Trisms I as a basic outline. Since explorers and inventors lend themselves to so much interesting discussion, projects, and experiments, it should be fun.

We'll also be doing La Clase Divertida, which I somehow got put in charge of. And Atelier (http://www.homeschoolart.com/) for art, which someone who isn't me is in charge of.

Let's see last year Semester 1 we had for the younger kids: Inventors, Spanish, and PE. Semester 2 we had Manners, Oceans, and PE for Coleen and Oceans, PE, and Crafts for the littles. Coleen loved her manners class. It was about which fork to use, how to write thank you notes, etc. They all loved the Inventors class. Each week was about a different inventor who they learned about, learned about their invention, and then made a craft model of the invention.
I really, really want to do a Latin class at some point, but we'll see.

Our co-op has lots of different classes. Our first year there I helped teach a preK/K class. My children have done: Apologia: botany, zoology, and physical science, also Prima Latina, a science course on light and sound, a books club, guitar lessons, PE, and probably a couple of others I'm forgetting.

This coming year I'm co-teaching a class on the Eastern Hemisphere. We're starting with India, the other teacher (who is in the process of adopting their second child from China) will then present China, and we're also going to have a few weeks on Korea, Cambodia, and Japan - not completely definite on those yet.