Knights & Castles

Our second book in our MTH learning series was The Knight at Dawn. I'm enjoying the pace we've been able to take with this. We read one chapter before nap, and one at bedtime each day. This gives us the ability to read the book twice in one week. The books we began reading after finishing The Knight at Dawn were again helpful and interesting for Babycake (who will be 4 this week!)

Our first craft we did after reading Knights and Castles was to create our own coat of arms on shields. Babycake loves coloring, so this was easy, simple, and fun. The second activity we did was building castle, after castle, after castle with Babycake's legos. I was proud of Babycake because I had planned on doing this as an activity in relation to our lesson, but she was the one who suggested it first. Many mornings the last couple weeks, I've woken to her quietly building a castle in her room. Love this girl!

The last set of crafts we made were a horse, jousting stick/lance, and sword. Babycake had a blast making her jousting stick and horse. She thought it was great and galloped around the house fighting off bad guys all day. Buddyboy also thought it was amazing, and now that he can crawl after his sister, he chased her as best he could. This was not to the joy of Babycake, so we made him a little sword in hopes that he would be happy to play with that instead of Babycake's horse and lance (of course the distraction didn't work)













As you can see these amazing crafts exist thanks to toilet paper rolls and duct tape. The horse's head however was made of a paper plate cut in half.

Now that we've exhausted Babycake's interest in knights and castles, we're ready to move on to Mummies in the Morning.