Lighting the Fire: Catapulting the Castle Wk 21

Our life in books

This is our eigth year of homeschooling and I finally got around to blogging about our adventures a few years ago.

I love the path that God has us on.

We get to enjoy the lightbulb moments in educating our children and have quite a few of them ourselves.

We are starting Exploration to 1850's this school year, 2012-2013 using My Father's World curriculum.

In the past, we have enjoyed the 'MFW Adventures' and 'Exploring Countries and Cultures', and 'Creation to the Greeks',

Rome to the Reformation,

Exploration to the 1850's and NOW.........

1850's to MODERN TIMES !!

Below is the week by week of lessons for this year if you'd like to start at the beginning.

There is also a handy LABELS area that you can peek through to find a specific lesson.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Catapulting the Castle Wk 21

The kids built a catapult from a kit that Everett received for Christmas. We fired marshmallows and a rubber ball at reinforced block towers to recreate laying siege to a castle.

FYI- siege literally means 'to sit' and invading armies would actually sit outside fortified city walls for months or even years before they found a way in..

It was great fun........until it broke.
note: Wood glue will be replaced with Hot glue gun when it is rebuilt.

I decided to add the Canterbury Tales into the curriculum starting next week. We are also watching videos from the library on Life in the Middle Ages by Schlessinger Media.

After reading and watching a video on monastic life in the Middle Ages, the girls remembered posing for these photos at Westminster Abbey:

:-0 hehe- they make me laugh!