Our book for this month was 'Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli. We had fun going back in time playing a few games that would have been played during the medieval ages. We changed a game that was mentioned in the book to a game of Duck, duck Goose.
John-go-in-the-Wind always said that if you should visit his mother she would most certainly offer a bannock. Well, we just had to find out what this was and found that it was simply flat bread that was baked on a stone, if you're from Scotland. We also learned that it was very common in Native American cuisine too...only they fried theirs in oil.
We decided to go with the scrumptious fry bread option. It was all about taste. When you cook something in oil, it just tastes scrumptious!
The dough turned out to be a bit sticky, but the kids learned to manage. It actually turned out to be a good cooking lesson. The older one's learned how to cook with oil in a safe way.
Mmmm, spread with honey or peach jam it was definitely very, very good!
A Punch and Judy show was also mentioned in the book. So we Google and learned about the Medieval shows. We were even able to watch a few renditions of some. We pulled out the puppets and the younger one's took their hand at creating a show.
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