What is it about Vikings?!?… Kids love them!
In this blog post, I will show you what Resources we used to teach our Kindergarten (Year1) and Preschool kids about Vikings, and hopefully give some ideas about how to teach this unit study in your homeschool.
As my eldest is only 5-years-old, I do not include too much written work in our unit studies. Instead the focus is hands-on learning and literature. However, if your children are older, you could certainly add in notebooking, lapbooks or even creating a poster of what they have learnt.
This is how we taught my Year 1 (Kindergarten) student about the Vikings:
1. Library Books
As with all our unit studies, the first thing we did was head to our local library to see what they had on the subject. We found this great book of World History by Dorling Kindersley.
I encouraged the boys to look through the relevant pages, and read aloud anything that intersted them. This is an old edition, but this
History Book
by the same publishers looks great too!
2. Day at the Museum
Another thing I always try to incorporate into our unit studies, are field trips to museums or historical sites. Our local museum was holding a ‘Viking Day.’ The boys got to try on a replica Viking helmet, look at maps and art work featuring the Vikings, and make these awesome Viking helmets:
3. Map Work
My son has a ‘thing’ for maps! So I used this interest in maps and world geography to help him learn about the Viking conquests. This FREE printable we used can be found
HERE
4. Literature
We also try include some children’s literature to go along with our unit study:
My eldest son read the easy reader Viking Adventure
from the Oxford Reading tree. I love this series and would recommend it for any children who are learning to read, but are not ready to tackle chapter books yet.
Also, during this week, I read to the children from the book Viking It and Liking It (Time Warp Trio)
.
It’s incredible how much information children can absorb from stories and books. At this age, there is no real need to TEACH ….only to READ!
5. Online Resources
The BBC has compiled an excellent collection of video clips and resources that we looked through. The videos of the VIking ships really captured my boys imagination! You can check these out by clicking HERE
If you have any Viking Resources for children that you would like to share with us, please leave a comment below!
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Atiyya
11/12/2019 at 7:37 pm (3 years ago)Asalaamu alaykum. Hope you are well. I am looking at ways Muslim mamas have used Story of the WorLD V1 alongside a time line of the Ambiya AS. I am planning a year of unit studies on the Ambiya AS and would like to use SOTW too; but its a bit of a juggle working the two together. Any tips? SOTW for example starts with ancient Egypt. The return to Assyrians overlaps with the story of Jonah/Yunus AS who is one of the later prophets mentioned in the Quran. Any advice would be appreciated.
Jazakallah khayr
Wasalaam