Knight Week

This week was a wonderful preparation for Jonas’ special day. We decided that Jonas’ birthday party would be themed around knights and therefore thought it a good idea to study them beforehand. We learned the letters in ‘knight,’ some of them being repeats from previous lessons, and worked on recognizing other words that began with those letters. It turned out to be quite a challenge for Jonas to attempt to find other words that began with ‘kn.’ Instead we focused on other ‘k’ words like kite and tried to differentiate a little between K words and C words. Suffice it to say this was too hard for a beginner in letter/word recognition K and C sound the same so often!


Much easier to focus on was our Knights Code of Honor. We talked a little about what kind of people knights were supposed to be. Jonas learned that knights didn’t just fight to fight, they swore loyalty to a lord or king and a code of honor that guided their behavior. Jonas, Ronan and I created our own Knight’s Code of Honor:








Knight math was the most fun we’ve had with the subject so far! Teacher Mama drew 7 left-handed knights on a paper and below them 8 right-handed knights. Jonas and Ronan each colored a shield and we used these shields to cover certain numbers of the knights to create math problems. We also talked about right-handed and left-handed and how you could tell which hand these knights preferred. Jonas had some amazing responses and I discovered that he still skips the number 13 when he counts. Note for the future.






For our movement section of the week the boys were asked how they thought a knight might dance and they both proceeded to demonstrate their ideas. Both were precious!

At the end of our knight week Papa arrived for the weekend to visit and he instructed the boys in how to help with certain projrects (Jonas’ version of projects). They constructed a picnic table together (yes Uncle Richard, we finally have our picnic table back!!), fixed a rocking goat, and built a model of the telescope project that papa is pulling together: the Giant Magellan Telescope. Jonas’ birthday party was a spectacular success with a dragon jumping castle, a brownie castle for the cake, and a crowd of wonderful friends and family to celebrate!

Overflowing a little over into our airplane week we dropped Papa off at the airport on Monday morning and composed our Knight song on the way home based on our Knight’s Code of Honor.

It’s been a wonderful week, now on to airplanes!