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Posted: April 07 2006 at 4:36pm | IP Logged Quote abcmommy
For the very young you might like the Usborne Castle Tales series.

This thread is awesome- chock full of great links and ideas... we are staring to get into a middle ages unit now.
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Yesterday at a used book sale I found a Scholastic First Discovery Book series' book called Castles. It's also for the younger crowd, and it has some see through pages that the kids like.

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Posted: April 08 2006 at 11:51pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmom
We really enjoyed the book Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page by Richard Platt, along with others already mentioned here.

And I recently wrote about how much we are enjoying the book The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit on audio here. We picked it up from the library a month ago or so. I hadn't found this thread yet, or I would have seen MacBeth's quote about it being possibly her favorite read-aloud ever, and just known we would love it. As it was, I put the first cd in without knowing anything other than the fact that E. Nesbit was a well-loved children's author!

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Posted: April 09 2006 at 5:27pm | IP Logged Quote abcmommy
Castle in the Attic is another really good read for about 6/7/8 and up. It has a great diagram of a castle.
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 7:48pm | IP Logged Quote Rachel May
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We really enjoyed the book Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page by Richard Platt, along with others already mentioned here.

We just found that one at the library!    My daughter especially liked the diagram of the garderrobe.

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 9:06pm | IP Logged Quote Rachel May
As I was working on this unit (I'm moving at a geologic pace here) I found these things that would help round out the science/math areas:

Make your own catapult This has some advanced science and math has a section about whether you could really fling two men over a wall with a catapult like in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. There is a forum for discussing answers that I did not look at.

This one is more my kids' level. It flings marshmallows.

Here are directions for how to make a sundial. My kids are learning to tell time so I thought they would enjoy this.

Also, a while back the kids enjoyed Herb: The Vegetarian Dragon. From my memory the book was twaddle, but they liked seeing that there were other people in the world who are veg. Anyway there is this cookbook that I am going to check out to see if we can use it for some Math Chef style learning.

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