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.