Finally a Knight

At Jonas' school for the past several weeks, the 6th graders have been studying the medieval period. He has had to work hard and complete assignments to become a page, then a squire, and finally a knight. (Kind of nice for us at home because he had to practice chivalry - pulling out chairs, holding doors open, plus he had to essentially complete any tasks he was asked to do by the Master and Mistress of the house - otherwise we didn't have to sign off his papers. I'm trying to figure out how to keep this going now that the assignment is over.)

Here he is in his knightly armor.
At school, they had a big banquet complete with chicken legs and trenchers. The floor was covered with brown butcher paper to be like the dirt floors from that time period, so that they could just throw their finished or unwanted food on the ground. That was kind of gross, really. Especially since there were no dogs roaming around to help clean it up.
I loved seeing all of the helmets, shields, fancy hats and costumes. (Some of the kids - especially the girls, dressed up quite a bit.)
Of course, you can't hand a bunch of boys swords and expect there to be no sword fights.
Apparently, over the course of this medieval unit, there were constant references by the kids to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as seen below with the knights who say "Ni" and the coconuts used to make the "clip-clop" sound of the horses. It made me laugh.
There were also several activities that required the boys and girls to pair up - which the majority of them moaned about. They weren't very happy about it. There were a handful of them, though that seemed to like the idea. Jonas was not in that group. (Thank goodness, I say.)
Here is Jonas pulling a lovely maiden in an attempt to get her back before the other knights return with their maidens.
I think everyone had fun, of course, anything that takes Jonas away from math is fun. At the very least, I was entertained.