Knights

Our knight week was a big success.

We learned about their armor and when I was searching for something random in the dollar store I found knight armor. I should have bought the helmets at the same time-for some reason I didn't.  When I went back for them, they were gone. :(

I had just seen an article in one of the boys'magazines about putting on the whole armor of God. So we talked about that. I tried hard to focus on the positive aspects of knights. That they protected people. And that they didn't want to fight, but they did if they needed to. Of course we had sword fights. And, in that article was a picture of a boy who had his bike helmet on, which had been turned into a knights helmet. I tried, key word is tried, to do the same. They still loved it.

We also built and used a catapult. They thought that was awesome. They had to show their Dad how to shoot it, and they still shot farther than he did.

King Jordan dubbed them knights. We read The Knight at Dawn; it was read on one sitting. We learned about crests and they got to make their own. Luckily, I have a picture of the Zielke family crest, so we looked at that.  Cedrik learned how to do the letter p, and wrote our last name. He felt so proud. Freddie can now match his colors on his own-he feels so proud.  It was a fun week.