Homeschooling

Immersing Ourselves in the Middle Ages

February 24, 2009 / No Comments

 

Once a year, myself and some other homeschoolers from our church, get together for a speech/co-op day. Several months before we give our speeches, we vote on a topic; the children study it, write a speech and then deliver it to friends and family on the appointed day. We go all out with props, costumes, food and games. The children get to put into play their creative skills and practice speech making.

This will be our 5th year. Thus far our Co-op days have been…

Democratic Republic of the Congo (we have a family at our church that moved from there and we thought it would be a great opportunity to learn some things firsthand)

(Wesley did his speech on the food of the DROC. He served some authentic food from his roadside stand "Red Termite Inn".)

Under the Sea


(my friend made this sharks submarine mouth that we had to enter before we could go underwater, which was our garage covered in blue tarps)

Pioneer Day


(Don’t you love this carved watermelon that friends from Pennsylvania made? Some people are so talented!)

Inventions

(My oldest daughter did her speech on the pencil and included her two younger siblings.)

This year we will be going back in time to the Middle Ages – a time period with plenty to study since it covers about 1,000 years!

I just recently learned that history is divided up into three parts: 1. Antiquity 2. Middle Ages 3. Modern Times.

Isn’t that interesting? I had always thought the Middle Ages was the time of knights and castles but did not know it also involved the martyrs, William Wallace and Vikings.

I can’t wait to get into this study. So much fascinating history to cover and learn before June when the children give their speeches.

Some materials I plan to use are:

There are of course many other books about the middle ages I intend to use but these are the ones I’ve purchased. It’s much easier for me to have the books on hand than to be going to the library (since it’s a little ways away) and I end up paying fines so many times, too. If they’re good books I don’t mind having them in our own personal library for the kids to mull over at will.

 

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