Medieval Living

My apologies to regular readers – I’ve been absent due to once again being “whelmed” by life! Oh well – all is good! Daughter is moved into her new house and her youngest has begun the “homeschool” process. Son is back off to college (driving as I write this).
So . . . about Medieval Homeschooling . . . well I know there are some books out and about that discuss education in Medieval times, but my interest today concerns teaching Medieval history to homeschooled children. What’s out there? What has been done already?

My own fledgling organization, Medieval Living, will begin teaching some basic classes around the first of the year. I discovered an interesting blog (the more I read about homeschooling, the more I believe that homeschool parents are all avid bloggers!) where a homeschool parent/teacher had her students construct Medieval History Lapbooks. The author, Dawn, had put together a 10-week Medieval history class, with the lapbooks being the culminating project for each week’s topic. She provides some interesting pictures as well as details of the 10-week course. Some wonderful ideas!!! The photo here is from her blog