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Cycle 2 - Week 2 Feudalism I saw this really cute idea online at http://www.parents.com and thought it would be terrific for our Wonderful Wednesday group! The idea came from a secular book about the medieval times called Knights and Castles by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell. It had a poem in it that I really liked for it's simplicity in teaching kids the basic idea to remember with regard to feudalism, called The Four Alls. Here is how it goes: The Peasants who worked for all, Priests who prayed for all, Knights who fought for all, and Kings who ruled all. There is a diorama activity in the book which is what we used as our guide, along with our imaginations, to create our feudal system diorama! First we had to get into the mood to travel back in time....so everyone came dressed like peasants! They are adorable!! We then started in with our lapbooking for Week 2, using www.wisdomandrighteousness lapbooks that we had pre-assembled for the year. We then began assembling our project. Sarah and I had made ours the day before because I wasn't quite sure how long this project would take and to what level of detail we would have time for in our day. It took us about 2 hours to assemble and embellish our diorama. It was a lot of fun to be creative and think about the various items that might have been used during that time period for those aspects of life. I thought our group had great creativity and diversity in what their final products looked like! It was impressive. We just stood there and looked at them all for a prolonged period after they were completed - noting the detail and the differences in each one's dioramas. This was a top notch project to me and super fun! The first thing we did was decide in what order the boxes would be stacked. Two of the girls in our group had gone to Michael's and bought picture boxes on sale. That gave it a nice colored/uniform look and I liked that idea. I used just shoe boxes I had around the house saved, as did one other Mom. Both ways came out great in the end. I assembled the first three boxes first but then realized that it would be easier to do them one at a time and assemble them at the end. So the next thing Sarah and I did was to work on how to make our Church roof. I did it one way the day before and learned a better way for the group to do it the next. Thus the doing it in advance on this project! Gave me good insight on what worked and what didn't as well as allowed me to help with gluing and assembling to make it go quicker for the group. This ended up being the best way to assemble the roof: cut the length side of your box across on one side. Next cut your extra shoebox top out to match the part that you just cut (should have a long rectangle attached at one side like picture below). Then glue them together at the top and glue the rectangle you made to the other side of a box with a hot glue gun. Then trace the triangle you have as an open space on the back of the box onto the second extra shoebox top you have and cut it out and glue it to the open triangle. Then you can begin painting the box and adding your embellishments. I found this great cheap fabric at Walmart that looked like a stained glass window. So we began cutting out stained glass windows for our Church. Once cut, we hot glued the fabric onto the back of the box wall to become our "window". One of the Mom's had a great idea and cut a hole in the back of the box to match her window and then took a large packaging piece of take to stick it to into the hole. It gave it a cool window look with the fabric/light making it look more "realistic". Next I took natural raffia and cut it out to make a "frame" around my window. Hot glued that by tacking it around the fabric onto the wall. Like below... We then decided to make a Church cross for our wall. We took popsicle sticks and cut off the ends to make it into a cross, gluing them at their intersection with a hot glue gun. Next she took gold glitter glue and painted her cross. We then spray painted glitter glue I had into the back of the Church to make it sparkle. Just a fun touch but not necessary. I then took a popsicle stick and cut it in half and took two more hot gluing them together length wise, to make a Priests alter. We glued some additional fabric I had found that looked medieval Next the kids made their own versions of goblets and plates for the alter out of model magic. I took some extra cardboard to cut out and attach to each level of the diorama labeling it's proper "All" for the kids to remember each level in feudalism. I folded them over about 1/2" and glued them to the proper level like below. Next we worked on the castle Knights level. I took a sponge and cut it so that it made squares when dipped in paint and dabbed onto the back of the box. Sarah went to decorating her castle with paint. We next added these cool plastic knights that I found at Science Safari. The last detail we added was our flags. I cut out of white and red felt, flags and hot glued them to the back of the box. I took the raffia and twisted it to make it look like a wooden bar to hang them by and attached that. The next level we worked on was the Kings level. I cut out of the box top a castle looking embellishment with a carpenter's knife. Sarah then painted the back and front of the box to look like bricks once again for our castle. We then added some tapestry fabric I found at JoAnn's over the summer. We hot glued it to the back of the wall and I once again used the raffia to be my "pole" holding it up on the wall. I wasn't able to find reasonably priced Kings or Queens for this level as far as plastic pieces - so each person did something different to represent their King. We had some that did chairs with candles, some did big tables, some found online printable images they printed and laminated then glued to popsicle sticks and added into their box. Each let their kids imagination guide them on what they would use to embellish this level. Our last level to complete was for the peasants. On this level we decided to take brown playdough and the container it came in. We put the container upside down and then she molded the playdough over it to look like a hay mound. We added hay we had around the house and then plastic figurines of animals I found at the Party Store over the summer. We made fences cutting popsicle sticks in half both length wise and width wise. We hot glued them together to form fences and then hot glued them into place on that level. Then we had our diorama complete! It was really fun and a big project but great for the beginning of school when we're not having to drill as much and do as much since we're right at the start of it all and had more time! The next day in costume! Disclaimer for today: If you are new to CC, then don't feel like the things you may see me or my group do each week is required in any way, in order to be doing CC. This is truly an enrichment activity that we find fun and a great diversion from the normal grind of drilling and working on the 3R's all week. It is not required and if you are struggling with the basics of how to incorporate CC into your day, then don't add this type of activity until you are fully comfortable with just drilling the memory work each day, listening to the music, downloading the materials from C3 to help you drill and feel like you've got it under control. If you're finishing your day and have time and want to add in things to enrich what their learning, then that's where I'm at. :) The last thing I want to do is discourage any moms or make them feel overwhelmed. I blog our Wednesdays because I know lots of Moms (since I've heard from many of you!), enjoy doing what we do or a modified version of it and really enjoy the ideas and creativity. My goal is to encourage and support you Moms out there! Days when I'm not doing Wonderful Wednesdays are filled with math, reading, writing, copywork, spelling and drilling. They're not all "wonderful" and for us that makes Wednesdays more special. I work hard and I play hard. That's my personality! I hope that helps to put what I do into perspective for Moms out there viewing.
Before I dig into the specific Wizard sub-classes, I need to give a little big-picture orientation on how the magic cosmology represented in the Octagram… …translates into the division and sub-division of spell-casting classes. I’ve prepared a handy reference chart you can use to keep track of how the various sub-classes break out with respect to their areas of magical focus (these tables are getting a little too complicated for my rudimentary HTML skillz, so I’ve started generating them as images). There are a lot of new names in there, but some familiar ones as well. The previously-separate Illusionist, Druid, and Monk classes are all going to be subsumed by this system and adapted to it (as is the Paladin, which will merge with the Paragon sub-class, and the Ranger, which will merge with the Druid/Shaman sub-class…but I’m getting way ahead of myself). You’ll also notice something funny with the Priest/Cleric classes and their magic type specializations (an overlapping of categories). That will be explained when we get to talking about divine magic and priests. Next up, I’ll be discussing each sub-class of Wizard in mutually antagonistic pairs.
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So I wanted to share the tastiest science treat we have made in a while. It was my mound cake. Not pound cake, no I'm talking mounds, like burial mounds. I had it in my plans for 18. Simply put it was a chocolate cake baked in two round pans stacked on top and I made some green cream cheese icing. I made one pan with less batter than the other (see picture below), so the base was wide but not as thick. Then for my third layer, I just took the sides (I trimmed) and stacked them on top. I'd get yelled at on Cake Boss for a mess like this- but who cares the overall project turned out great. :) It was eaten in no time. Even if you are past 18, you might think of reviewing the mound cultures during the break. If you wanted to be a little more authentic you could stuff little plastic men in there as you are assembling the layers, but that day I was just glad I accomplished the cake before dinner. Books I actually found at my library for History lesson 19 were: The Pueblo Indians by Pamela Ross ISBN: 9-780-736-800-792 I really like the simple non fiction book. They break it down into sections that are only one page long and if reading to a 5-6 year old can be easily read aloud. The sections are history, people, homes, foods, clothing, etc. Then in the end how to make your own adobe bricks if you're so inclined. I think I will plan to do this in the summer as a review week and will post pictures if it's accomplished. Key word..."if." The Anasazi by Petersen (A New True Book) ISBN:0516-01121-9 It's old, but it's likely to be at your library if it's at mine. It's short enough to be a good read aloud but long enough for a 2-3rd grade reader to be interested. It has some classic pictures for the younger ones. Even though my kids are past this lesson, I'm still reading books from then as lesson 20 seems to be scarce in my library. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald Mc Dermott ISBN: 9-780-670-133-697 He is the same author that wrote Anasazi and Zomo the Trickster, so if you read this, you are in effect covering one of the common core standards for all ages and doing an "author study." Thankfully, his books are covering our curriculum which is hard to find fiction authors who do that- so if you have the others available, be a "book hog" and check them all out. And last but not least, my happiest project of the day was a very simple balloon for Lesson 20. This is my sample, I will post pictures of my kids making it on Thursday as I will test drive the lesson then, but it was so easy I had to put a sneak peak and some special resources to go with it. My atmosphere layer balloon! (Can anyone tell my printer isn't working? I'm really having to be creative each week. ) So I drew the earth on the bottom and made the layers accordingly. My layer names are written in dry erase markers and my clues or hints are written in permanent. I did this so I could wet and erase them and ask the kids, "What goes where?" The pictures are "Troposphere" (which is misspelled when I took it- good thing it's not permanent ) with clouds and a parachute man. Then the "Stratosphere" is where we have the ozone rays (hence yellow rays), "Mesosphere" has comets, "Thermosphere" has the Aurora Borealis and "Exosphere" has satellites (which can be in both Thermosphere and Exosphere). I found three fabulous videos that you can share with your kids when teaching this lesson. First, this is a great overview of the first two levels and it explains many things about them. It's long and not necessary to have them see the whole thing, I think the first 15min is great, the rest goes into volcanoes, thunder, lightening, etc. Earth the Power of the Planet The second is actually from a friend of ours, his name is Manny Alsina. He and my husband went to school together and even though he's a doctor, he's as good as the photographers from National Geographic. He accurately explains what happens with the Aurora Borealis and has amazing pictures put to classical music. They were taken just a few weeks ago, on Feb 6th in Scandinavia. Here is the link to "Winter's Heavenly Night." I hope you enjoy! It's just over 2 minutes. Here's a pic of Tony watching it and asking a ton of questions- even though my days of international travel have significantly paused, I'm so thankful that I'm able to plant some seeds of adventure and awe in him. I'd like to go see these one day, but I don't like the cold that much... do you think this would be a problem for a Texas girl like me? The picture looks fake, but it's not. So amazing! Truly speechless when I watch this video. The "Thermosphere" is my new favorite layer of the atmosphere. Yep I said it... I know, "My name is Crecia and I'm a closet nerd." And last but not least, have you seen this video of the International Space Station? It may not be exactly what we are studying this year, but I mean, heh, whenever you can bring in a cool space video- do so! If you haven't seen it it's an American astronaut that gives us a tour of the ISS. It's about 25 minutes, and well worth the time. Here's a great link to all the atmosphere levels and summaries on each one. I love this graphic I found on the website. You can download it to PPT and make a sheet for your memory board. I love how this picture brings in two of our previous weeks, can you see where? Here's a break down of each layer... Did anyone else know these before teaching this week? If so, in my book, you'd be called, "Muy Intelligente!" Again, was I asleep in school or what? I have a few more fun activities for Lesson 20, but will have to wait till another night to post them. It involves a jello and pudding mold and some great Mexican Revolution activities. Much love to you all! -Crecia
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