Knights and Castles

Our lessons right now are on knights and castles. Jacob is currently reading The Knight At Dawn from the Magic Treehouse series. He is really enjoying the series and it has been a lot of fun hearing him reading them.

My mother listened to him read yesterday while I was with Josh in therapy, and she asked him some questions. One of the things the book mentioned was that they ate peacocks, and mom got the feeling he didn't quite get what a peacock was exactly. So today, I asked him if he knew and to describe it. He started out telling me it was a bird, had a beak, a long neck, and he was really convincing that he knew what it was...at least until he told me they were pink. LOL So, I jumped on the internet to find some pics of peacocks and then he remembered seeing them at the zoo. Silly boy.

I found a really neat site to help with visuals of a castle and its different parts. Here is the link: Kids' Castle It allowed Jacob the chance to dress a knight, learn about squires, pages, tournaments, the moat, etc. all with visuals that appeal to him. Here is a screenshot from the Knight in Armor activity that he did:

Before Jacob dressed him:


After Jacob dressed him:


Right now he is building a castle out of Lego blocks. I'll take pics and post them when he is finished. :)

He is such a little boy. Today when he was reading, there was a section where Jack was describing what the people he was seeing were wearing. The boys serving food were "wearing dresses". You can tell he really was paying attention to what he was reading, because he stopped and looked at me with this adorable puzzled look and said "The boys were wearing dresses?" and he burst out with laughter that I thought would never end. It was so funny. He'd get further down the page and then he'd start laughing again and would say "haha The boys were wearing dresses". LOL Luckily once he turned the page there was an illustration that showed what Jack was talking about, and it settled the laughter down a little bit so we could finish the lesson.