Monday, March 9, 2009 - Will Stutley
Robin Hood - Will Stutely Rescued by His Good Companions
The Sheriff really wants to catch Robin Hood and comes up with another plan to catch him. One of Robin's men, Will Stutely, decides to go to the inn to see what he can find out. He dresses himself in disguise.
A cat comes by, rubbing itself on Will's robes and revealing his Lincoln green colors underneath.
One of the Sheriff's men sees the Lincoln green and starts to question and then accuse Will.
They overtake him and arrest him.
Will is sentenced to death. Robin Hood and his men plan a daring rescue. They dress in disguise and show up at the hanging.
Little John makes the first press through the men. He jumps up in the cart and asks Will if he doesn't think its time to take leave of his friends because it might be the death of him. Then he cuts him loose.
Will Stutley and all of Robin's men get away from the Sheriff.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 - Shooting-Match at Nottingham
Both Cameron and I are very much enjoying Robin Hood. I think we also look forward to putting it together with the "men" The Sheriff is very upset that his plan to catch Robin didn't go as planned. He decides to go to the King to enlist help. He makes a great show with his armies and provisions when he goes to see the King. The tables were turned on the Sheriff when the King is upset with him for not being able to get rid of one little outlaw by himself with all his resources. On the way back to Nottingham, The Sheriff comes up with an idea to trap Robin. He decides to hold a shooting match. The prize was a golden arrow. Robin tells all his men of the coming competition and wants everyone to go. But go in disguise. They will share the arrow, no matter who wins. Robin's disguise is coloring his hair with walnuts, wearing ragged clothing and an eye patch. Of course he is the best yeoman around and easily wins the match.
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Friday, February 20, 2009 - Robin Hood and the Tinker
We are having great fun with Robin Hood. Cameron looks forward to it each day and he looks forward to "setting up the scene." I'm allowing him to retell Robin Hood using his men.
The Sheriff of Nottingham wants Robin arrested, but no one will serve the warrant. The Sheriff is asking the men of Nottingham shire if they will do it.
No one wants "a cracked crown and broken bones" so the Sheriff sends a messenger to another town to see if someone will. The messenger meets with several men but it is the Tinker that takes on the task.
We had to look up exactly what a tinker was. I had no clue. But now we both know that a tinker traveled from town to town to fix metal. (Cameron has never been very good with names. I know he gets it from his father. He keeps referring to Robin and Red Robin Hood and the Tinker was Tinker Toy...just a funny side note)
The Tinker takes the warrant and goes off to find "this knave Robin Hood" and who does he meet but some nice youth on the way. (It is really Robin) They immediately hit it off.
Robin does not reveal who he is and finds out that the Tinker is after him. He invites him back to the inn for some drink and fellowship. The Tinker loves his drink and hardily accepts.
But Robin has the innkeeper put something into his drink to make him fall asleep.
Robin pays for their refreshments but then tells the innkeeper to charge the Tinker when he wakes up. Then he steals the warrant right out from the Tinker's bag. Which is very funny because the Tinker was bragging about it.
Robin is gone when the Tinker awakens and is angry to find that the one he was spending time with was the very one he was after, and that he had taken the warrant, AND that he had to pay the innkeeper.
The Tinker goes on his way. He is angry and who should he run into in the bend in the road but a whistling Robin.
They fight with cudgel and staff
Cudgel breaks staff and Robin calls for some of his merry men.
Little John and some yeomen (AKA Storm Troopers) come to his aid.
At this point in the reading (before this delightful re-enactment) Cameron interrupts with, "The Tinker is going to join the merry men. Just like Little John did in the last chapter."
The very next sentence had Robin's invitation to join. The Tinker gladly accepted.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - Battle of Crecy
Cameron loves the narrations that are not normal. Here is his great picture from our history reading of Edward III and the Battle of Crecy. Again, Edward is fighthing the French.
On the left side is King Edward III and his English army. This was one of the first battles that used cannons in Europe. Both sides have archers. Cameron added flames to them. They didn't mention flames in the reading but he said they did that sometimes to burn up more of the other's army. (Notice the two dead guys)
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Friday, January 23, 2009 - Battle of Sluys
Cameron loves our narration cards. He is still paying attention to the details of our readings and must internalize what is going on to reproduce it in his own way. But this helps to break it up from always just telling the story back. He loves drawing from the card pile to see what he gets.
For King Edward III and the Battle of Sluys, he drew the "Act out story using your toys" card. I left him alone for about five minutes and told him to set up.
The tall white robot is King Edward III and the yellow "workmen" are the English. The blue "police" are the French. Now he told me that he didn't have any ships because that is where the battle takes place but I was supposed to use my imagination.
The last part of the narration had the fool telling the French king that his men had lost the battle.
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Friday, January 16, 2009 - Pagoo
We have started reading Holling's book Pagoo. I really like the Holling books that we've read so far: Paddle-to-the-Sea, Tree in the Trail, and Sea Bird. Pagoo is about the life cycle of a hermit crab. We started with Pagoo just hatched from an egg. He is the size of a dot made by a pencil and doesn't look much like a hermit crab.
For narration Cameron got the card that said to draw a picture from the story on the dry erase board. Here is his rendition of the just hatched Pagoo.
Good job!
