Lighting the Fire: Take up your shields, your coat of arms and FIGHT!

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

Take up your shields, your coat of arms and FIGHT!

Well, this project did not take much convincing. They were willing from the word 'shield'. They spent a few hours each on their designs and coloring their personal coat of arms.

We took was a cardboard box, cut some sturdy shield shapes. 2 pieces of posterboard to cover the brown shield, markers and a book to copy some typical coat of arm symbols. We had one from the library that told the significance of the symbols used in the art of Heraldry, like the lion for courage, gold for generosity, blue for loyalty and honesty, a sun for glory, a spider for wisdom and hard-work, a trident for master at sea and red for warriors.

Let the battles begin.......