Beowulf... please don't mistake me for Grendel

Ah, Beowulf. How can you not shudder at the old tale? Anyhoo, lots of talk this month about monks and saints, as well as the glorious age of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. We covered St. Meinrad, Ss. Bendict & Scholastica, and St. Kevin of Ireland. In doing so, we had to cover some geography. Besides being fun, and a history whiz, our intrepid History Guide is also an amazing cartographer!



Here we are enjoying the amazing spring weather and planning the most historically involved game of tag ever. If you didn't want to be caught, you had to shout out the name of a historical figure we studied this year---one that hadn't already been called. Needless to say, I did much worse than the kids.





And you gotta love historical anachronism, because it's fun! Here a Pirate guides our review activity: