Delight-directed learning . I am sure you have heard that term more than once. It's an idea that I love, and try to adopt in our schooling whenever possible. We are ending our school year in a delight-directed fashion. Doing grammar at the window, watching the mama bird feed her babies. Dawson chose to study Knights for the month of May. I wasn't sure how to handle planning lessons for this unit, so I did the only thing I know how to do ... I checked out a ton of books from the library. While at a consignment shop a couple of weekends ago, I found a great paperback book called Knights by Julek Heller and Deirdre Headon. It is delightful , and it's Table of Contents gave me a guide to follow. I chose 10 topics for Dawson to work on, one for each day. This week his daily topics have been: Initiation, The Vigil and Dubbing; The Sword, The Helmet, The Armour and King Arthur. He read the pages in Knights , and pertinent pages from two other books I checked out fr...