Sushi?

Hehe not quite but the kids had an interesting day at co-op this past week ;) It all began last week when they made those fishing poles. Their assignment was to go fishing. That is usually a very easy thing for this family to get around to doing, but not last week. Our schedules are a bit packed right now so between that and the miserable weather we've been having (which we are supposed to get a break from this week!) we just didn't make it out.

But their nature teacher did ;)

And guess what she brought to class?? FISH! Not live fish....fish for eating ;)

But first they had to scale them...

 Carole gave them a sharp piece of flint and told them how to scrape it from tail to head, against the scales, to remove them. Nicholas did a great job! Then she told them how to take that sharp piece of flint and cut into the fish then slide their fingers in to remove all the ....insides.

She's such a good teacher!

Some of the kids did not want to touch that fish ;)

 These three, sweet friends of Nicholas' were cracking me up.

 Especially Rhyse. Angi, look at those crossed arms! He was not about to touch it.

I'm pretty sure Colin and Max did most of that kind of work, but he did cook it!

And so did Nick! After each group cooked their fish, they each were able to eat some. I heard lots of good reviews from kids who were surprised that they actually liked it! What a great lesson for them!

 Nicholas wanted to hang on to that little fish's skelley. No idea why, but he was pretty proud of all his work and very excited to show Todd the evidence of his cooking adventure ;)

Brandon and Megan also take this class and they also cleaned, cooked and ate fish, but I'm teaching at the same time as their class so I can't hang out with them, photo-journaling their survival skills like I can Nick's, but I can tell you this: they had a great time too!