It's been a peaceful week. We've been talking about the Middle Ages. The boys love the life of a knight. They all want to be squires but none want to start out as pages. The pages did all the work, and the squires learned how to fight and ride and got great clothes like swords and shields. We're going to make shields today for the boys and the girls are going to learn some embroidery. Will we let the girls make shields and the boys do embroidery? Sure, but I would bet not a single boy wants to pick up a needle in favor of a shield, and not a single girl thinks a shield is more fun than what she could do with a needle and thread. We will see however. It's always their choice.
We've been eating our rendition of Medieval food - yesterday it was bean soup, eggs, cheese chunks, bread, apples, and grapes. They ate every single thing. Monday we had roasted chicken, noodles a la Marco Polo and today it's piggie pie. When you make it fun, their interest fires up.
Yesterday we read a story about St. George and the dragon. The kids loved it. The description of the dragon was really elegant and the kids all listened.
Today in class the kindergarten will attempt to read the "little books." I'm very excited. Yesterday we played some new games and a lot of kids took prizes away with them. They like the number game - identifying a number like 43 and telling everyone what the next number is. They also like the letter game - identifying an air sound from a mouth sound. Aidan and Faith and Abby won those prizes.
Justin and Taylor won the math prize and Justin won two bingos.
Games in class really help to encourage participation and interest.
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