I’ve always known of the great privilege we as parents would have in training our children and helping to shape and mold their character. But I was not at all prepared for what a work God had in store on my own heart… Can anyone else relate? I remember a few years ago having a […]
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Knights-in-the-Making
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 […]
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 […]
Desert Dwellers
We started our study of native americans before Easter and taking a couple of weeks off to learn about birds before it got too hot. We are now taking that up again as our weather heats up. Since the boys are so young, I decided to start local and spread out from there. They were having […]