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Teachaide Our school has picked the Medieval times for this years Discovery day theme. I work with 5-6 yr. olds and need ideas and projects for them to do. We also need help in designing our class shield. Any help would be great.
Philip Davis One thing I've done for slightly younger children is make play armour. This is fairly simple done with the thin, silver coated, insulation, such as used in some carpet underlay or as a backing for radiators. Silver cardboard could also be used, particularly for helmets. Four triangles and three strips of card quickly become a Norman style helmet, held together with staples. There are some good illustrations of knights at http://armouries.com/arms.htm although these have been reproduced from various books without apparent acknowledgement. If you can get hold of a copy of Norman Knight 950-1204AD by Gravett and Hook (Osprey Military Warrior Series) this has some detailed pictures of actual armour which was what I then adapted. Of course you could do rather more on medieval costume and include civilian and religious dress.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a wonderful historical source, and could be a source of several activities - Embroidery, painting, letter recongnition, introduction to Latin. Mainly though it has that wonderful cartoon feel and pictures of chopped up bodies which seems to appeal to 5 year olds. Several sites have the Tapestry online.
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wurdsmiff As you will see from the other postings, model making is also popular, why not choose something to match their abilities, such as a papier mache motte and bailey, with cardboard or matchstick? tower. Philip has mentioned the Bayeux tapestry, which produces the idea of a frieze. Split the class into groups to paint their impressions of different mediaeval scenes, such as a knighting, a battle, a siege, ........
Incidently, it's nice to hear from a teacher rather than the pupils.
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'Give me the groves that lofty brave,
The storms, by Castle Gordon'.
Visit my web-site at
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Gordon.
wurdsmiff Regarding the shield, heraldry as I'm sure you know is a matter of symbolism, and each succesive generation altered the family coat of arms in some way. The purpose was to display the lineage of the bearer, the crest of the helmet (usually shown surmounting the shield)one way of identifying the family (these are actually representations of the helmets and adornments actually worn, and the shield displayed what was painted on the bearers functional shield).
Given these simplified rules, it could become the source of part of your activity to involve the class in designing the shield. Part of it should reflect the badge of the entire school and it's motto, whilst other areas could be used to identify the class. Heraldry is of course much more complicated than that, the symbolism running deep, a black diagonal bar for instance representing illegitamacy, and (I think I remember correctly) Fleurs de Lys representing the three virtues of truth, valour and wisdom.
worth following the heraldry links at the foot of the page if you wish to study this more deeply, though I think the above will serve for 5-6 year olds.
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'Give me the groves that lofty brave,
The storms, by Castle Gordon'.
Visit my web-site at
www.castlesontheweb.com/members/wurdsmiff/castles.htm
Gordon.
Levan There's lots of information about Heraldry on the following site. It consists mostly links, but they are worth a look:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/cuhags/links/links.htm
Here's another one, but with lots of pictures: http://digiserve.com/heraldry/index.htm
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T Graham Hayward
Laird of Castle Levan
Gourock, Scotland UK
Levan This site could really help. There's a castle model, and even stuff dedicated to making your own shields:
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/castle.htm
Levan
Danno I'm ten and are class is doing Medevil Times too. Were doing lots of projects one Idea is to have them construct a hat and look like someone from the Medevil times. The rest of the projects are for gr.4 like consruting a castle and stuff like that.

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Teachaide	Our school has picked the Medieval times for this years Discovery day theme. I work with 5-6 yr. olds and need ideas and projects for them to do. We also need help in designing our class shield. Any help would be great.
Philip Davis	One thing I've done for slightly younger children is make play armour. This is fairly simple done with the thin, silver coated, insulation, such as used in some carpet underlay or as a backing for radiators. Silver cardboard could also be used, particularly for helmets. Four triangles and three strips of card quickly become a Norman style helmet, held together with staples. There are some good illustrations of knights at http://armouries.com/arms.htm although these have been reproduced from various books without apparent acknowledgement. If you can get hold of a copy of Norman Knight 950-1204AD by Gravett and Hook (Osprey Military Warrior Series) this has some detailed pictures of actual armour which was what I then adapted. Of course you could do rather more on medieval costume and include civilian and religious dress. The Bayeux Tapestry is a wonderful historical source, and could be a source of several activities - Embroidery, painting, letter recongnition, introduction to Latin. Mainly though it has that wonderful cartoon feel and pictures of chopped up bodies which seems to appeal to 5 year olds. Several sites have the Tapestry online. ------------------ Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, Psychiatrists charge the rent, art therapists do the interior design and nurses clean out the garderobes! http://www.castlesontheweb.com/members/philipdavis/index.html
wurdsmiff	As you will see from the other postings, model making is also popular, why not choose something to match their abilities, such as a papier mache motte and bailey, with cardboard or matchstick? tower. Philip has mentioned the Bayeux tapestry, which produces the idea of a frieze. Split the class into groups to paint their impressions of different mediaeval scenes, such as a knighting, a battle, a siege, ........ Incidently, it's nice to hear from a teacher rather than the pupils. ------------------ 'Give me the groves that lofty brave, The storms, by Castle Gordon'. Visit my web-site at www.castlesontheweb.com/members/wurdsmiff/castles.htm Gordon.
wurdsmiff	Regarding the shield, heraldry as I'm sure you know is a matter of symbolism, and each succesive generation altered the family coat of arms in some way. The purpose was to display the lineage of the bearer, the crest of the helmet (usually shown surmounting the shield)one way of identifying the family (these are actually representations of the helmets and adornments actually worn, and the shield displayed what was painted on the bearers functional shield). Given these simplified rules, it could become the source of part of your activity to involve the class in designing the shield. Part of it should reflect the badge of the entire school and it's motto, whilst other areas could be used to identify the class. Heraldry is of course much more complicated than that, the symbolism running deep, a black diagonal bar for instance representing illegitamacy, and (I think I remember correctly) Fleurs de Lys representing the three virtues of truth, valour and wisdom. worth following the heraldry links at the foot of the page if you wish to study this more deeply, though I think the above will serve for 5-6 year olds. ------------------ 'Give me the groves that lofty brave, The storms, by Castle Gordon'. Visit my web-site at www.castlesontheweb.com/members/wurdsmiff/castles.htm Gordon.
Levan	There's lots of information about Heraldry on the following site. It consists mostly links, but they are worth a look: http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/cuhags/links/links.htm Here's another one, but with lots of pictures: http://digiserve.com/heraldry/index.htm ------------------ T Graham Hayward Laird of Castle Levan Gourock, Scotland UK
Levan	This site could really help. There's a castle model, and even stuff dedicated to making your own shields: http://www.yourchildlearns.com/castle.htm Levan
Danno	I'm ten and are class is doing Medevil Times too. Were doing lots of projects one Idea is to have them construct a hat and look like someone from the Medevil times. The rest of the projects are for gr.4 like consruting a castle and stuff like that.