People Who Shaped Our Country

Teachers: Cecile Crumpler and Cindi Daniels

Tuition: $160.00 per year, payable in monthly installments of $20.00, semester payment $80.00

Supply/Materials Fee (due at registration): $20.00

Deposit (due at registration): $20.00

Grades: K-1st

Minimum Class Size: 8

Maximum Class Size: 18

Class Time: 5th hour (1:25 - 2:20)

Required Materials or Books:

  • Crayons
  • Glue sticks
  • Elmer's glue
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Markers

This year we will continue studying different people and groups who shaped our country.  Each month during the co-op year will have a different focus.  Some that we will be studying will include Daniel Boone, Gold Miners, Pioneers, Lewis & Clark and others.  We will have different hands-on activities each week to reinforce their learning.  For example, when we study Daniel Boone we will make a coon skin cap and play a wilderness game. When we learn about Gold Miners, we will pan for gold. We will also sing songs, play their games, taste thier food and learn different facts.  Join us as we step back in history to learn how these people lived their daily lives and helped build the foundation of our country.

Teacher Information:

Cecile Crumpler is the mother of 3 children and grandmother of 12. She relocated to Waco to be closer to her children after retiring from teaching elementary school for 30 years. She has a Bachelor's and a Master's in Elementary Education. Her main focus in teaching has always been history and literature using a lot of hands-on activities. She has traveled extensively in the U.S. and has developed a strong love of country which she wants to share with her students. She will be co-teaching this class with her daughter, Cindi Daniels. Cindi is the mother of 8 and has been homeschooling for 7 years. She has a Bachelor's degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. Over the years, she has taught different ages at swimming lessons, mother's day out programs and Sunday School. She really enjoys using the unit study approach in teaching her own children. This will be our second year to teach this class.