Following Sandra's visit and our trip to Kirkwall we have managed to make our own Viking Museum. We looked at all the artefacts, compared them to modern day objects and then wrote a piece of information about each item. We worked really well in our groups in order to do this. We then invited other classes in to see our museum.
After a busy few weeks we have managed to get our Viking longhouses finished. We all worked really hard on these and they look fantastic!
We learnt that Vikings used to drink squashed blueberries, water and honey as a treat so we decided to try some!! Some of us were not sure about the look or texture, so we decided to pretend we were doing a challenge!! We all tried it but we think we prefer juice from nowadays!!
We drew pictures of our favorite parts of our trip to Kirkwall. We had a great time!
Today class four set off to Kirkwall to take part in a Viking walk and to visit the St Magnus Cathedral. We begun our tour at the pier where we found out about different buildings and why they were shaped and facing the way they were.
Some members of class four have been trying for some time now to complete a globe of the world jigsaw puzzle. It was very tricky as the pieces fit together in a sphere shape which kept falling to pieces!! But today....there was success!
To celebrate National Book Week we each took in a copy of our favourite book. We then picked out a section of text in which we thought the author had written well. We looked for a piece of language which painted an image in our heads. Then we illustrated the language paying careful attention to detail. We all did a really good job!
Class four have spent this week learning about Viking runes. We found out where runes originated from and then we wrote our own names in runes.
Class four have been working on measuring in centimeters and metres. We took part in a measuring challenge where we had to find both feet and hand measurements then compare the two.
Class four looked at the differences and similarities between a Viking longhouse and a modern day house.
They then were set a task in groups where they had to make one longhouse and one modern day house to show the differences.
Two boys from class four took part in a swimming gala at the weekend. We are very proud of their achievments. Both boys won a silver and a gold medal. Well done boys!
On Monday class four had a very exciting afternoon. Sandra from Historic Scotland came to visit with a box full of Viking artefacts. We were very excited to find out about the different items Viking people used.
As part of our Viking topic we have been learning about the type of armour and weapons they used. We then set about researching designs for our own shields.
We have been busy using hamma beads to help us practice our spelling words today. It was trickier than we expected it to be!
Class four had great fun practicing their spelling words in a different way! We smoothed out shaving foam then printed letters on top to spell our spelling words for this week.
