Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - Middle Ages Journal - King Arthur
We continue on with our Middle Ages study, now focusing on King Arthur, and a bit on medieval mythology as well. The original King Arthur stories are a bit too much, so we read some books taking place during the times of King Arthur.
We read aloud and did HSS units on two of the Sir Cumference Math Adventure books. We also read some twaddle just because dd11 remembered King Arthur was mentioned. The girls had a lot of geometry fun, drawing shapes, making 3 dimensional shapes, and playing a shape game.
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DD9 went on a jester rabbit trail, locating the jester in all the Sir Cumference pictures and also reading Hester the Jester by Ben Shecter. She also dug around in the fabric bin and made herself a cute jester hat complete with bells. All week she read The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla. We pulled spelling and dictation out of the chapters.
DD11 also read The Sword in the Tree, but it was a quick read for her so she finished out the week reading The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald and completed a Story Study for that.
Comments
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - What a great unit!
Posted by Anonymous
I love the medieval theme. My dd1 and I read The Sword in the Tree, many years ago, and enjoyed it. And the hat is fabulous.
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