A World Of Castles

One of our main projects that the children are loving is Castles!

This all started when we received little block people of ourselves. It is an image of the child attached to the block. The children absolutely LOVED this! They loved looking at themselves and creating different things with it.

The boys went over to the block are where they began creating a, "castle" that their block people were in!

Next these three boys put their block people to "guard" the castle so no one would touch it...

Than we moved over to the table where we started looking at our castle and drawing a picture of it. After we drew it we practiced writing the word, CASTLE.

Before we were about to go outside, the boys told me they wanted their castle to stay up and not have anyone touch it. They then created a sign that said, " DO NOT TOUCH." They also put the rest of their classmates to guard the castle! ;-)

We have taken different tiles, and building materials outside, to build in the beautiful weather.

The next day we provided the children with many different materials to start creating their own castles.

While the students were creating different types of castles I began asking them questions to find out what they knew about it...

Who lives in the castle? The King and Princess!

Is their a Queen? YES!

What does the King do? He tells the Knights what to do! -Bishop

Why is their so much water around the castle? So everyone can swim!-Noah

Why are the windows in a castle so small? 

Because the princess like it small.-Bishop

The windows grow bigger.-Hendrix

They don't want big windows.-Noah

After conversing with the boys and listening to what they thought about castles, we looked at a few castle books where we saw and learned some cool facts:

• We learned why castles are usually far away on their own with water and moats surrounding them.
• We learned what a Moat is and is used for defensive purposes, to protect themselves.
• Knights and Guards are there to protect the King and Queen
• Castle Dungeons were intended for holding prisoners.

Noah's Castle

                                                                             Hendrix's Castle

Bishop's Castle

The Horse Knight Castle

By: Hendrix

By: Noah A.

The Power Ranger Castle

By: Bishop L.

                                     Christian's Castle                                  Tiger Knight Castle

                                                                                                              By: Sam

Christian's Castle

By: Christian

This is a project that has really caught the interest of the boys in the classroom because they get to learn about so many cool things that they always imagine and talk about with their friends!

Thank you to Hendrix and his family for bringing all of the interesting books that have to do with castles!  We love reading them.

Bishop has began making his own castle where he hopes to add many things to it so it can look exactly the way he wants. 

Many of the boys are creating books about the castles they are making.  The books tell the story of who lives in the castle and what happens in the castle!.

Please feel free to come see all the fun learning activities that the children are doing based on this project! :)