Middle Ages Fun

Doodle and I spent a few weeks learning about the Middle Ages. We "rowed" the book- The Duchess Bakes a Cake" by Virginia Kahl. It's a fun rhyming story, and we had a great time learning about Knights, and all things Middle Ages. It's amazing how sometimes when we "row" a book- things just fall into place to make it even better. We finished up The Duchess Bakes a Cake last week, and have spent this week on other things- but Tuesday or Wed I got an email about a Rennisance Festival- and they had a homeschoolers discount (thank goodness! Cuz I'm not sure it would have been worth full price!) So today the boys and I met our friends at the Rennisance Festival. There were all sorts of booths selling costumes and knives and swords (that really impressed some little boys I know) A cute puppet show, and a magician doing a few tricks. But the best part of all was the Jousting. Huge thanks to Bug's friend- who was my photographer- who did an AWESOME job with the jousting pics!

My Knights in Shining Armor!
Doodle did some notebook pages for The Duchess Bakes a Cake- Most of the notebook items came from Homeschool Share - one of my FAVORITE resources. (I'm writing another unit study for their Homeschool Share Blast! Watch for it!)

A page on Alliteration- (the alliteration in the story is SO fun! As the Duchess makes a "lovely, light, luscious, delectible cake" At the top is a mini-book on measurement- as the duchess does NOT measure- we did some measuring- and compared how many tablespoons it takes to make a cup, how many cups for a quart, and how many tablespoons to make a quart.




Doodle's Vocabulary page- he didn't want to cut them apart and make cards with the words- just leave them all on one page- I'm fine with that- as long as he writes the word somewhere so we can look back at the vocabulary we learned





We talked about Complimentary colors- as the colors in the book are red and green. So Doodle made a color wheel, and connected the complimentary colors.

The next page is "What should I eat" We talked about Calories and how a cake isn't all that healthy, and talked about Healthy foods.
Doodle told me "I already know this- we talked about healthy foods at church on Sunday" (Huge thanks to Awesome Primary teachers- I know it doesn't always seem like they are listening- Doodle especially- but they do learn!)

The Sir Cumference Series was a huge hit- We especially liked Sir Cumference and the Knights of the Round Table- It talked about diameter, radius, and the circumference of a circle in a way that Doodle will never forget- You can't see them very well- but he drew some circles, and drew the diameter, radius and circumference in different colors.
A few great go-alongs- Ms. Frizzle's Adbentures: Medevial Castle and Gail Gibbons' Knights in Shining Armor Doodle who has discovered Chapter books- loved Magic Tree House- The Knight at Dawn