So earlier this month I told you all about the Poppins Book Nook blog series we are joining. Do you remember reading my post about 10 Princesses Who Have Made Their Mark In History? Well this month's theme was Knights, Princesses and Castles. We have been having lots of fun learning about these three topics. Below you will find the books we have been using, videos we have been watching, resources we have used and crafts we have made. We are still working our way through the unit study because we sort of got behind due to a 5 day trip we took this month.
Books:
Rather than choosing 1 book to focus on we did a unit study on Knights, Princesses and Castles. Here are all the books we have been utilizing. The kids favorites have been the Magic Tree House books! We also read this book "When Knights Were Bold" by Heritage History.
I also got out the castle books that I bought in 1999 when I visited England and Ireland. The kids thought these were really cool as well especially since it was something I actually bought in the countries.
Crafts:
Building a giant castle was probably the kids most favorite craft project. I gave the kids a bunch of cardboard, markers, recyclables and a book and told them to build a castle. They had a blast dressing up and playing pretend with their creation.
We also built a catapult. I gave the kids a cardboard egg carton, some craft sticks, rubber bands and markers and this is what we came up with. Yes it really does work. The kids have had fun launching marbles with it.
Resources:
Here are the resources we have used to go along with our unit study.
-A Journey Through Learning Knights and Castles Lapbook - we are still working our way through this lapbook and since we are reviewing it for the TOS Crew I cannot share too much about it...but keep an eye out for our review which will be posted soon.
-Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Knight Unit Study
-Homeschool Share Princess Unit Study
-Castles of the World website
-History Scribe Medieval Times
-Magic Tree House Knight At Dawn lapbook
YouTube Videos:
I am big fan of YouTube. We have been watching great castle, knight and princess videos on YouTube. When you cannot physically make a trip to visit a castle a virtual trip is the next best thing!
Medieval YouTube Channel:
Princess YouTube Channel:
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