Knights unit study and lapbook
We’ve spent January studying Knights as part of our Middle Ages study. Here are some of the things we’ve done:
Read these books:
Mystery of History (chapters on knights)
Story of the World (chapters on knights)
The Door in the Wall (De Angeli)
The Sword in the Tree (Bulla)
Knights (Daly-Weir)
The Middle Ages (Verges)
Favorite Medieval Tales (Osborne)
Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures (Cole)
Castle (MacCauley)
Castle diary : the journal of Tobias Burgess, page (Platt)
Castles (Bodden)
Knights in Shining Armor (Gibbons)
The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur (Hodges)
The Knight and the Dragon (DePaola)
Listened to these CDs:
King Arthur and his Knights (Weiss)
Watched these DVDs:
Castles (MacCauley/ PBS)
Art:
The boys designed their own Coats of Arms.
Cooking:
Made butter, beef stew, beef pot pie, fruit pie, raisin custard, pretzels (recipes from Days of Knights and Damsels Activity Book):
Pretzels- Crane from Kung Fu Panda
A Knife
A Rainbow
An "R"
Making Butter (shaking up heay cream in baby food jars):
Pretending to be knights:
Notebooking: Wrote about and drew a picture about King Arthur’s story.
