How to make a Viking longboat...

We have made Viking longboats this week. We constructed and decorated our dragonboats using card, art straws, barbecue skewers, masking tape and paper.

Please watch the videos below from Isobel and Joseph to find out how to make them!

Isobel (part one)


Isobel (part two)

Joseph (part one)


Joseph (part two)

Viking shields!

We have been making Viking shields in class.  First we looked at different Viking designs and chose two colours to decorate the shield. Then we made a metal 'boss' for the centre of our shield using a paper bowl and tin foil. Finally we attached a handle to the back.

During our Viking work this term we have found out that found Vikings, called Beserkers, used to bite the edge of their shield to scare their opponents. Vikings also used the metal boss in the centre of the shield to hit their enemies with.

Extra Extra! Read All About It!

In class this week we have been writing newspaper reports about the Vikings' attack of Lindisfarne in 793AD. We imagined that we were reporting on the story the next day, and had to write a report for the local paper.

We each had to decide on a name for our paper, like The Viking Times or The Daily Viking Mail. Then we decided on a headline that included either homophones or alliteration. We each chose a picture and wrote a caption and finally we had to be sure that we had included answers to the 5 w's that all newspaper reports answer - who, what, when, where, why.

Please click on the pictures below for a larger version of each newspaper article.

Lindisfarne Raid: Vikings vs Monks

By Alfie C

Unwelcome Vikings Invade Lindisfarne

By Bianca

 Vicious Vikings Meet The Monks

 By Evie

The Vikings Attack

By Kacie

Vicious Vikings Are Vile

By Olivia B



Our Skype chat with a Viking

On Friday we were very lucky to have been able to chat to a real life Viking!

We used a webcam, microphone and Skype to talk to Asbjorn Thorvaltson. We asked him questions, and listened to everything he had to tell us about life as a Viking warrior.































Some of the things we found out were:

• that the nickname for a Viking sword was leg-biter.
• each Viking warrior carried a smaller dagger called a seax - given to a warrior by his father.
• the chain mail that warrior's wore would have taken a year to make.
• each longboat carried 64 warriors.
• Viking warriors wore Thor's hammer around their neck, hoping that if they died in battle they would go to Asgard (heaven).
• it took about 2 days to travel to Lindisfarne from Scandinavia.
• the only food on board the longboat would have been dried fish!

  





























Thank you for taking the time to talk to us Asbjorn!

Harvest at Roydon Church

This morning the 5/4 Deers, along with the rest of the juniors, walked down to the church to celebrate harvest and give thanks.




We had a lovely service which included hymns, songs and poems. Each class had to perform/read something. We decided to read some of our acrostic poems.





These were the superb poems that we chose to read aloud in the church (please click them to make each one larger):

 

 

Making 3d Shapes

In maths this week we have been studying shape. After looking at 2d shapes, we then looked at 3d shapes in more detail and learnt the correct mathematical language to use when describing them.

Using straws and blu-tac, we measured and cut accurate lengths of straw to fix together to make a 3d shape. Some of the shapes constructed included cubes, triangular prisms, square-based pyramids, tetrahedrons and octahedrons.



After construction, each shape had to be described, looking at vertices, edges and faces.

Look at our shapes below!

Our own Viking books

In 5/4 Deers this term we are studying the Vikings. Therefore, to start off our topic, we decided we would create some information books.

We use the iPads and the app, Book Creator. This app allowed us to type text, import pictures, change font, underline and rotate images - all handy tools when creating a non-fiction information book.

 

 

 

We needed to ensure we included a front cover, with a sentence explaining what the book was about, pictures, captions, headings (and if we could turn them into questions then that was great!), written in past tense and a glossary.

Check out our fabulous books below! Click on each page for a larger view!

                                  By Ellie L:

By Carla:

                                                             By Henry:

                                     By Isobel:

                                    By Lucy:

                                    By Olivia: