The boys and I just loved our adventure studying the middle ages. (You can read about our previous adventures here, here, here, and here.) But I think one of the highlights was the focus on knights. My boys were inspired. They wanted to dress like them, fight like them, behave like them. Really, they wanted to […]
Inspired Learning
Portcullis Construction
I have fond memories of studying the middle ages when I was a girl. We visited that era multiple times. Being in a household of all girls, I’m sure you can imagine our rapt attention as we learned about courtly behavior, medieval dress and the day of good ol’ chivalry! It was all quite ‘romantic’ and the brocades […]
What Comes First?
I couldn’t help but think about the question, “What comes first, the chicken or the egg?” when thinking about our educational adventures last week. Of course in this situation it was, “What comes first – activity or content?” My usual educational mode is to read, read, read about a subject and then incorporate hands-on activity […]
Winners Announced and Kings Crowned…
We emerged briefly from the middle ages to select some winners for our giveaway!!! The boys were quite excited about it (although disappointed that they couldn’t enter to win the pencils) and wanted to help, so I reverted to the ‘old fashioned’ way of writing down each name on a slip of paper and letting the […]
Mama Panya’s Pancakes
One of the kid’s favorite books this last month was Mama Panya’s Pancakes. This delightful book followed a boy and his mother as they left for market to buy ingredients for pancakes. The peek into Kenyan village life was so engaging. At the end of the book, it gave more information on what life is […]
Pinning Down Africa!
As is beautifully demonstrated in the book, Africa Is Not A Country, Africa is pretty much impossible to pin down in a neat little one-dimensional box. But that didn’t keep us from pinning it down in the most literal of ways! We found these fun little cork tiles at the craft store and had fun […]