Here's a Fourth of July sneak peek at some of the wonderful projects within RTR. I hope you enjoy thinking about them and looking forward to them as much as I enjoyed writing them! We'll be doing them this upcoming year with my second little guy as he journeys through RTR. I know that it adds so many connections to our study of history as we complement the study with projects spread out over three days each week, done in bite-sized pieces with supplies you truly will have on hand.
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I think you'll be amazed by year-end at how much your kiddos have accomplished and what fun they have had. Here's a partial peek at what's ahead: making a Roman arch out of air-dry clay, creating a mosaic-like glue and chalk stained-glass window, writing in Greek on parchment, playing a game called 'Race to Rome', baking bread with Scripture verses inside, designing a Roman shield, playing a card game called 'Lord of the Castle', baking marzipan cookies and sharing portions of "The Cid", going on a Crusade with clue cards, making an origami turban and model of Saladin, cooking homemade egg noodles, rolling the die to show the spread of the Black Plague, making a medieval pennant, coloring your own Fra Angelico painting, making hardtack, painting an African mud cloth, sketching and painting an image from the Sistine Chapel, forming a 3-D map of Magellan's voyage, designing a Spanish "Pieces of Eight" coin, creating illuminated letters/borders/entries for a Book of Hours, making a window cling of a Huguenot cross, mapping the path of the Spanish Armada, baking your choice of baked pears/seedcakes/or Yorkshire Pudding from the time of Shakespeare, using oil pastels to create the Great Barrier Reef, forming an Iroquois gourd rattle, practicing sketching like Rembrandt, creating a flapbook of important Scriptures to help in leading someone to Christ through the Word, making a Lenape Native American bandolier bag, and baking your choice of Amish sugar cookies or Russian tea cakes.
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I can't wait for each of you will be using RTR to get underway! Although, I wouldn't mind a bit of summer myself first.
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Blessings,
Carrie