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.

Robin Hood - Shooting-Match at Nottingham

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.

Our Island Story

Chapter 52 - The Story of How Prince Hal was Sent to Prison

Prince Hal didn't want his servant to be put in jail.  He was very angry with the judge.  He was so angry he slapped the judge on the cheek.  Everyone thought the Prince was going to kill the judge.  But the judge just sat still.  He said he was going to send Prince Hal to jail for his action.  Prince Hal went without a fight.  Someone told the King his son was in jail and he was glad for a judge that would do it and a son that would go.

The king was ill and dying and he thought someone stole his crown while he was sleeping.  It was Prince Hal who thought he was dead.  The king called the prince to him and the prince said, "I thought I would never hear you speak again."  The king gave mercy to him before he died.

Cameron's picture narration from Pagoo.  Pagoo found his first home in a button barnacle, which happened to be on another barnacle which was on the shell of another hermit crab.

Wind in the Willows.  This is from chapter 12.  In Toad's absence, weasels, ferrets and stoats have overtaken his home and grounds.  His friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat are helping him get it back by sneaking in through a hidden passage.

Badger, Mole, Rat and Toad were going through a tunnel.  Toad slips in the water.  Then they went back to help him.  But the Badger says, "If you make on more sound, we're leaving you behind."  And it was dark. 

Rat called to him because he was really scared and he was staying back in the dark.  Rat said, "Come on."  So he came on and bumped into Rat and Rat bumped into Mole and Mole into Badger.  Badger thought they were being attacked from behind and almost put a bullet in Toad.  Then he noticed that Toad had bumped into Rat and that made Mole bump into him.  That made him mad. 

They kept going.  They could start to hear some people cheering and footsteps above their head.  They started to go up the tunnel.  Badger said when they could go out and everyone was got startled from them bursting out.  They ran away.  A few escaped out of the window.  Some of them went up the chimney so they wouldn't get hit by the sticks. 

They looked for food to eat and Badger asked Mole to do an errand for him.  Mole went out to check on the animals that were watching the place.  He brought back a lot of pistols.  Mole told him that they got scared of the weasels coming out.  They dropped their pistols and got scared.  Most of them fell into the river.  Badger wanted them [their prisoners] to go up and clean rooms for them to sleep in.  So they did.  Then Mole came back down and pulled out his seat and started to eat.

We finished up chapter 10 and started in on 11 of Wind and the Willows.

Toad has now escaped from jail disguised as a washerwoman.  He stole a horse from a woman on a barge and sold it to a gypsy for food and money.  Then he meets up with the very car that he motorcar that landed him in prison.  He faints in the road.

The men in the car feel bad for the poor "washerwoman" and take him into the car with them.  Toad weedles his way into the front seat and even talks the men into letting him drive the car.

Toad gets carried away and reveals to the men that he is the Toad that stole their car and ends up in a pond with the car.  He is catapolted out of the car and runs away.  Only to be chased by the police again.

Toad falls into the river and ends up at Rat's house.  Rat tells him that his house is over run with weasles, ferrets and stoats.  Toad must see for himself and tries to head home only to be shot at by a stoat.  Then he tries a back way, up the creek to the boat house only to be sabatoged by two weasles dropping a rock into his boat.

Cameron set up each scene and did a very good job of retelling what was going on.

We also spent time on dicussing Toad.  He is not an admirable character.  He is proud, arrogant, selfish and disobeidient.  I was actually happy when he got sent to prison because he deserved to be punished from his actions.  He is never sincerly repentatant and as soon as things start going his way again he is quick to puff up. 

Seabird chapter 7 "A Gallopin' Fishpole.  Cameron got the draw a picture from the story narration card.


Right now, in Seabird by Holling, we are learning about whaling.  This is a picture of a whaling boat.  They have already harpooned the whale and now are hanging on for dear life.  The man at the back with the stick is the Boat Steerer and the man beside him is pouring sea water over the pully system so that it won't catch fire.  The pieces outside the boat are ice cakes that they were steering through.

Tonight we did the "Magic Floating Egg" experiment.  It also had a hidden fractions lesson in it.  First we were to fill the bottom part of the pop bottle 1/4 with water.  First we eye-balled where half was and then eye-balled where 1/4 would be.  I think that this was the first time that he got that 1/4 is a half of a half.

Then we cracked an egg into the water and watched what happened. 

That's right.  It sunk straight to the bottom.

Then we did it again but made a very high concentrated salt water solution.


(This was almost as much fun to him as cracking the egg and seeing what happened)

Then we added an egg again and voila!


The egg floated to the top. 

We always enjoy doing experiments and we were able to discuss things like solution, dissolving, and density and got to do things like estimating, measuring and predicting.

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)

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.

Our Island Story - Chapter 40

Edward I —The Little War of Chalons

There was these two armies. They were going to have a tournament.  The Count and King Edward were trying to knock each other off their horse. The count kept striking at King Edward and King Edward didn't fall off his horse.  The count fell off his horse.  King Edward got up and jumped over at him and kept jumping on him and finally let him get up.  Then the Count tried to give King Edward his sword but King Edward wouldn't take it.  

Some men saw that there was more French and King Edward was beat out of men so they started to shoot their arrows at the horses and killed them.  King Edward's army won.

We got most of our images from Enchanted learning. (Thanks Grandma!) And we found the Jonah printouts here at Homeschool Helper.

Chapter 39 from Burgess's Bird Book:  White-breasted Nuthatch and Brown Creeper

White-breasted Nuthatch

Song: "What, what, what, what."  He likes beechnuts and grubs.  He looks like a blue jay but smaller and without the mohawk.  He's the only bird that can climb head-first down a tree.  He uses one foot frontwards and one backwards.

Brown Creeper

Song: "See-see-titi-see"  He eats bugs in the tree.  Why its called the brown creeper is because it is kind of brown and it king of creeps up the tree.  The male has a little bit longer beak.  The beak is a little bit curved.