After learning how to use the tools, we have started to make our Viking Long Ships. The children all had the same materials, but had to work together in their groups to create a Viking Long Ship. They used their designs to help them and try to make it as historically accurate as they could and make it water-proof! The children were using glue guns, measuring, sawing, working together, drawing and had a great time, Here are their final Long Ships. Tomorrow we see if the float or sink.
In writing, the children have been writing a third person story set in another culture. Over this unit of work, the children learnt to develop their characters and setting using expanded noun phrases, use speech, write in third person, use modal verbs and adverbs and use commas for clauses. The children created some imaginative stories. Here is a little excerpt of s section of some of their writing.
One of the children sharing their flute playing with the class. In D.T. today children have had to looked at each others design's in their groups and have come up with a Viking Long Ship design collaboratively. The children have considered the side-view, front and back view, birds-eye view and even looked at cross-sectional views - although this was a lot trickier. Good use of the Creative and Cooperation Gems today.
Today in science the children learnt about how scientific discoveries are published through scientific journals, medical journals, the internet, newspapers, social media (although we do have to be careful about the integrity of social media) and books. The children explored a website of scientific discoveries and then wrote a short newspaper article about one of the items they researched.
In history, the children have learnt lots about the Vikings. They have learnt that the Vikings came from Scandinavia and Denmark and travelled to many areas, such as Britain, Iceland, France, Greenland and even the Northern most part of America. They settled in these and many more countries and they were also traders. The children learnt that Viking actually means 'pirate' and that in fact the Vikings were really just farmers. They learnt about the raid at Lindisfarne and about Viking society and some of the Viking Gods. The children used sources such as books, the internet, written records etc, to try to answer our question, 'Would the Vikings do anything for money?' Here are some examples of some of their writing - a saga, as a big finish to demonstrate their knowledge over the unit of work.
Here are some of the drawings following the children's research on Viking Long Ships.
To follow on from our fabulous Viking history unit, the children have today begun the DT project of designing and building a Viking Long Ship. Today the children had to choose who they would work with and then complete some research on a Viking Long Ship. The children used good 'old fashioned' sources to conduct their research today - books!
In guitars the children are learning some songs and music to play at the WCET Festival in June. Here is one of them, |
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