Learning About the Middle Ages

We had a great time learning about the middle ages.  We wrote about the middle ages and we created foldables.  The kids did an amazing job!  We used books and the internet to learn about the people of the middle ages.  And, of course, we built castles.

Get a closer look at our castles by the viewing the Animoto Video below.




I want to thank all the parents and families for your great support with these projects.  Thank you!

Castles 2011

We had a very busy week with a field trip on Tuesday to the Des Moines Art Center, our castles were due on Wednesday, and we had Core Knowledge Night on Thursday. During the day on both Wednesday and Thursday, each member of our class presented their castle to the class. We interviewed them, and they told us about their castle, the materials they used, and who helped them.

We also did some more writing about our castles. This time we are writing a Castle Fairy Tale. We will post our completed fairy tales along with a picture of the castle on our Kidblogs. In the meantime, take a look at the Animoto above to see a video of all of our finished castles. We hope you like them.

Photo #35: Fourth Grade Castles

Class photographer: Caleb C.

This is one of the castles that fourth grade is doing.Both classes do a castle,and they put them in the place that holds all the castles and other medieval things.1 fourth grade class has done it,and the other class is going to do that soon too,because both classes do a medieval unit and make castles.There are about 7 more in the area that holds some of the medieval projects.This is one of the projects that fourth graders look forward to since the beginning of the year,because people like building castles.There is one castle that is made completely out of popsicle sticks,and another that was made out of sugar cubes,and the one in the picture was made of stone-like material.

Photo #30: Castles

Class Photographer: Skylar

Hi

I'm Skylar, this photo was about castles from the fourth grade.(mr.pugh's class)did a great job on these. Notice how much detail these kids put into these. when Mrs.day told me to go and take a picture I thought hum I think I will write about those castles, but when I saw them I noticed how detailed they were.

Then I sad that I wanted to take a picture of all of it because if I just took a picture of just one of those the people would miss out on a lot of details.