OPENING DAY
COMPONENT: KING ARTHUR
TOPIC: SWORD IN THE STONE
COMPONENT: KING ARTHUR
TOPIC: SWORD IN THE STONE
VISITOR: KING ARTHUR
Bradley was our first visitor, and a good King Arthur.
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He shared his story with us  Our school showed up at our home after Latin class. It was a little squished in our living room, but it worked! I loved how polite and interested all of our students were.  Afterwards the younger students went outside to do some group inquiries. The high schoolers stayed indoors with their writing teacher and wrote peer reviews of Bradley's performance. This worked so well. Our group photo--Giselle is top, right. |
COMPONENT: KING ARTHURTOPIC: MERRY OLDE ENGLANDVISITOR: LADY GODIVA
The next visitor was Lady Godiva. Giselle's photo with the visitor was last--if she had been first, then all the other kids would have wanted to pull her hair too! Lady Godiva shared key points about feudalism, since her story involved taxing the townspeople.
Mikala's dress and hair were perfect for her part!
Every person was given a card of a person in the feudal system so we could make a human feudal system pyramid.
LONG BEACH LONDON BRASS RUBBINGSCOMPONENT: KING ARTHURTOPIC: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Chase, Autumn, Giselle and I first did rubbings at this church in Long Beach during the Shakespeare school year. These are exact replicas from the London Brass Rubbings center, which I've now visited.
The hall at the church is decorated like a castle.
Al, the knight, is the same one we met years ago at our first visit. 
Giselle and I were the last ones there from our group. It took a long time to get our large rubbings done just right.
I chose to do the same one that Autumn did several years ago.
ROBIN HOOD AND ARCHERYRobin Hood (Tammy's husband) taught an archery class. The older students had their instruction right after Latin class, and the younger ones came later.
Giselle's a pretty good shot.
CLOSING DAY KING ARTHURThis was an inspiring closing day. All the students brought projects to display and/or present to the group. The presentation should be connected in some way to the component theme, King Arthur.
Project presentations are a wonderful way to end our study of a component. The projects tend to get completed on time when there's a presentation deadline.
I had never heard of Beowulf until college--this girl did a puppet show about him.
The subjects we learned about that day included Castles, Catapults, Bubonic plague, Chess, King Henry V, Falconry, Magna Carta, Insular Art, Beowulf, England, Wise Women, Arrow-making, Heretics.
Katy made a video about how to make arrows from scratch. That's the benefit of coming together to share our projects--we all learn even more.
Giselle gave a presentation about medieval heretics. She dressed up like a 12th century heretic who didn't like crosses. He liked to burn them. After creating a huge bonfire of crosses one time, the townspeople threw him into his own fire. 
Levi shared his falcon that really flew! He made it himself, and drew the pictures of all the falcons on the crenellated castle board. 
Merlin also came to issue an invitation to our spring medieval science faire
Our Latin class gave an impressive performance, but I was leading them and didn't get any photos. It showed younger students what they can aspire to learn in Latin.
My favorite presentation was the Shakespearean Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech, performed by a five year old boy! He showed such passion and understanding. I thought of how little we sometimes expect of children these days.
COMPONENT: KING ARTHUR
TOPIC: MERRY OLDE ENGLAND
VISITOR: LADY GODIVA
The next visitor was Lady Godiva. Giselle's photo with the visitor was last--if she had been first, then all the other kids would have wanted to pull her hair too! Lady Godiva shared key points about feudalism, since her story involved taxing the townspeople.
Mikala's dress and hair were perfect for her part!
Every person was given a card of a person in the feudal system so we could make a human feudal system pyramid.
LONG BEACH LONDON BRASS RUBBINGS
COMPONENT: KING ARTHUR
TOPIC: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Chase, Autumn, Giselle and I first did rubbings at this church in Long Beach during the Shakespeare school year. These are exact replicas from the London Brass Rubbings center, which I've now visited.
The hall at the church is decorated like a castle.
Al, the knight, is the same one we met years ago at our first visit.
Giselle and I were the last ones there from our group. It took a long time to get our large rubbings done just right.
I chose to do the same one that Autumn did several years ago.
ROBIN HOOD AND ARCHERY
Robin Hood (Tammy's husband) taught an archery class. The older students had their instruction right after Latin class, and the younger ones came later.
Giselle's a pretty good shot.
CLOSING DAY KING ARTHUR
This was an inspiring closing day. All the students brought projects to display and/or present to the group. The presentation should be connected in some way to the component theme, King Arthur.
Project presentations are a wonderful way to end our study of a component. The projects tend to get completed on time when there's a presentation deadline.
I had never heard of Beowulf until college--this girl did a puppet show about him.
The subjects we learned about that day included Castles, Catapults, Bubonic plague, Chess, King Henry V, Falconry, Magna Carta, Insular Art, Beowulf, England, Wise Women, Arrow-making, Heretics.
Katy made a video about how to make arrows from scratch. That's the benefit of coming together to share our projects--we all learn even more.
Giselle gave a presentation about medieval heretics. She dressed up like a 12th century heretic who didn't like crosses. He liked to burn them. After creating a huge bonfire of crosses one time, the townspeople threw him into his own fire.
Levi shared his falcon that really flew! He made it himself, and drew the pictures of all the falcons on the crenellated castle board.
Merlin also came to issue an invitation to our spring medieval science faire
Our Latin class gave an impressive performance, but I was leading them and didn't get any photos. It showed younger students what they can aspire to learn in Latin.
My favorite presentation was the Shakespearean Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech, performed by a five year old boy! He showed such passion and understanding. I thought of how little we sometimes expect of children these days.
At the end of our Colonial Escapade school year, a public school teacher asked me why I chose to teach my young children about the American Revolution. Didn't I know that they weren't supposed to be studying that until they were in fifth grade? I was puzzled at her lack of understanding. We should aim to inspire children with noble and great and beautiful ideals while they're young.
The mother of this five year old said she didn't memorize the speech. On St. Crispin's day, October 25th, she shared Kenneth Branagh's Henry V speech. Her son was so inspired that he wanted to memorize it. He kept asking his mom to read the next line so he could learn it and perform it! I cried during the whole thing because it was so awe-inspiring--both the speech and the young boy's passion.
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