Viking Day

Monday 16th December we had a Viking immersion day.  We took part in a number of different crafts and activities to learn about how the vikings lived.  Unfortunately it was too wet and windy to have a Viking Fire to cook.

We tried some Viking wire weaving.

 It was very tricky and you had to really concentrate.  The Vikings must have been very clever!

Even though it was tricky we didn't give up.  We were very proud of what we made.

The Vikings also liked to weave their own clothes on a loom.  We made our own looms and wove ribbon on them.  We are going to add these to are garden when they are finished. 

 

One of our favourite activities was making Viking pendents. We used real saws and then drilled holes in them using a hand drill. Then we wrote out names on them using viking letters.

 

 

 We made our own versions of a lucet which the Vikings used to make cords for their pendants or to tie round their waists. A lucet has two prongs and a hole in the middle. 

 

Finally we made Viking Helmets.

 

Did you enjoy Viking Day?

What was your favourite part?

 What did you learn about the Vikings?

Viking play

We took a break from the garden and decided to put on a Viking puppet show.  We have learnt a lot about Vikings this term. We talked about the characters we would include in the show.  Then we started to make them.

Can you guess what Viking Characters we made? 

 

 

Completing the beds

After a lot of digging we finally got the last beds in place.

We found some big roots and worked as a team to remove them.

 

 

These big roots gave us an idea!

We decided to start a beetle hotel. We worked as a team and discussed our ideas.  It was tricky getting the roots to stand up.

 

These pupils found some bricks and decided to develop the beetle hotel already started under the tree. How big do you think they are planning to build it?

 

The girls decided the fence needed to be brightened up so they started weaving a beautiful rainbow.

Can you see the black bin bags in this picture?  They are not for rubbish.  What do you think is in them and why?

Building the garden

This week we have been working hard building the garden.  We had to work together to build the beds. The beds needed borders to protect the plants we will be planting.

We used a stick to mark the centre of the circle. After some thought we realised we could use a metre stick like the hands of a clock to make sure the bed is an exact circle.  We turned the metre stick and place a brick at the end until the circle was complete.  So we know the radius of the circle is 1 metre.

We found lots of interesting things in the garden.  We found this caterpillar.  Can you find out what type of caterpillar it is ?  Do you think it will turn into a moth or a butterfly? 

Yasmina found this green caterpillar.  What do you think it might turn into ?

 

Gurpinder found lots of interesting rocks.  He sorted them into two groups according to their characteristics.

Can you tell how he has sorted them?  Could he sort them another way?

We also found this special skeleton leaf.  How do you think the leaf became like this?

 

 

We had to dig hole to put the sleepers in for the flower beds.  We noticed that the soil was different colours.  We could see a black line of organic matter.  Underneath the soil was very orange as it was mostly clay.  Underneath the clay we found the stones. 

Can you see the different layers in the soil?

 

 

What do you think we are doing in this picture?