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| The first course: salad, soup and bannock on our trenchers. |
We have spent the last few weeks learning about everything medieval. Castles, knights, the power of the Catholic church during the middle ages, hunting and hawking, names, heraldry (we even created our own coat of arms), we made our own butter, learned about feasts, Gothic architecture, and so many other things that I can't even tell you! We have had so much fun learning to write with turkey quills, learning about the lives of surfs and kings, and laying siege to block castles. After finishing our middle ages book, A Door in the Wall, we had our middle ages party. We have a party each time we finish a long book like that. This time we planned a feast and a movie night. We are currently watching The Court Jester, I love this movie! Why do we have a party? Because experiencing something, living it, really brings the lesson home. We try the food from the time period, or country we have studied and an activity that we learned about, like our Korean pottery. So tonight we had a four course feast, complete with trenchers, a dancing gypsy, minstrel music, court jesters, Paiges to help the king wash his hands, and many out cries of "off with his head!" It was fun to see each boy take a turn entertaining the king or acting as Paige. We all tried to talk as if we lived in the middle ages and talk of anything not yet invented was banished, I smuggled in my camera though. :)
We have spent the last few weeks learning about everything medieval. Castles, knights, the power of the Catholic church during the middle ages, hunting and hawking, names, heraldry (we even created our own coat of arms), we made our own butter, learned about feasts, Gothic architecture, and so many other things that I can't even tell you! We have had so much fun learning to write with turkey quills, learning about the lives of surfs and kings, and laying siege to block castles. After finishing our middle ages book, A Door in the Wall, we had our middle ages party. We have a party each time we finish a long book like that. This time we planned a feast and a movie night. We are currently watching The Court Jester, I love this movie! Why do we have a party? Because experiencing something, living it, really brings the lesson home. We try the food from the time period, or country we have studied and an activity that we learned about, like our Korean pottery. So tonight we had a four course feast, complete with trenchers, a dancing gypsy, minstrel music, court jesters, Paiges to help the king wash his hands, and many out cries of "off with his head!" It was fun to see each boy take a turn entertaining the king or acting as Paige. We all tried to talk as if we lived in the middle ages and talk of anything not yet invented was banished, I smuggled in my camera though. :)
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