Fifth Grade Brings Middle Ages to Life

Fifth graders transformed their classrooms into interactive monasteries, town markets and castles from the Middle Ages to share what they had been learning as part of this year’s medieval presentations.

Blacksmiths, knights and the bubonic plague are just some of the characters and topics these 5th grade historians shared as part of their multi-day immersive medieval curriculum. Each student assumed a role in their transformed medieval classroom environment and communicated all they knew with other students and adults. Scribes and sculptors shared more about their specialties, as did troubadours, traders, friars and heretics. Whether one was looking for a primer on alchemy, to learn more about the blacksmiths or simply to appreciate the wares of skilled tradespeople and artisans, the 5th grade classrooms proved the place to be. An extensive amount of research and writing lies beneath the surface of this unique experience, which younger students look forward to and older students happily revisit with a smile.

Parker looks forward to celebrating these students again in June, when Principal Dan Frank will formally dub and welcome each of them to the “Kingdom of Fifthenham,” like generations of Parker 5th grade students before them.

Enjoy photos from this curriculum here.