JSB: Week 7 - The Warrior Leader

"The Warrior Leader" (pgs. 108-115) is about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. We combined this a little bit with the lesson from week 6.

Our vocabulary for this story was fortress. A really enjoyed hearing about fortresses and their similarities to castles.

For our song we decided to go with a traditional children's song and sing "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho." We have since been singing the song about wherever we go.

For our math time we made a "fortress" of our own by building our own version of Jericho.

A and E putting up the walls of the city.

E adding some more to the walls.

A and E putting houses inside the walls of the city.

The finished city. They even put in a little gate at the front!

We continued learning about castles in our social studies time. Castles and Forts by Simon Adams had some decent images about very early cities and fortifications that would have been seen around the time of Jericho.





For art time we worked on making a shield.