The Vikings!
We had previously looked at the Vikings, so we refreshed ourselves once again with a Home Ed group visit with other local home ed children to Yorvik in York.
First we did the workshops at The Dig ... excavating the sorts of things found at the various dig sights, considering the life of the Viking and looking at what they left behind. We also identified and handled real Viking finds.
The Yorvik Centre was excellent, as always, and more was learned as we travelled through the museum.
You can learn more about the trip by reading a blog entry that Rugger Girl wrote herself: https://hoopershomeed.blogspot.com/
Upon returning home, we learnt how to nalbind (a Viking form of knitting using a bone needle) and we used an ancient lucet to create some braided arm jewellery.
We also made a Viking Longship out of card and listened to some Viking music.
We had previously looked at the Vikings, so we refreshed ourselves once again with a Home Ed group visit with other local home ed children to Yorvik in York.
First we did the workshops at The Dig ... excavating the sorts of things found at the various dig sights, considering the life of the Viking and looking at what they left behind. We also identified and handled real Viking finds.
The Yorvik Centre was excellent, as always, and more was learned as we travelled through the museum.
You can learn more about the trip by reading a blog entry that Rugger Girl wrote herself: https://hoopershomeed.blogspot.com/
Upon returning home, we learnt how to nalbind (a Viking form of knitting using a bone needle) and we used an ancient lucet to create some braided arm jewellery.
We also made a Viking Longship out of card and listened to some Viking music.
