Here are your home learning activities for our topic work on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.
You need to choose at least 3 activities from the boxes below to complete over the next
half term.
Your work should be beautifully presented and in your own words, you cannot just copy
and paste from the internet. If you think of activities different to those that are listed
below, check with your teacher and you could do these instead!
Your homework should be brought into school: 1st homework - week beginning 14.11.16;
2nd homework - week beginning 28.11.16; 3rd homework - week beginning 12.12.16
Good luck!
Viking bread
http://minabema.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/vi kingbread-recipe.html
Use this website to find the recipe for Viking bread.
Make some and bring it in for your friends to taste.
Writing task
Imagine you are a reporter watching the Viking longboat fleet arriving on the beaches at Hastings.
Write or record a report on what is
happening.
Place names in the UK
Many places were named during Anglo-Saxon
times. Can you find out the names of villages,
towns and cities which were named during
this period?
Clue: -ham and –hurst were all Anglo Saxon
words!
History task
You are an archaeologist who has dug up a
box of Anglo Saxon artefacts (a bit like
Sutton Hoo possibly)… what could be inside?
Who did the casket belong too? Did they
keep a diary? Present your objects in a cask
with a diary to show who they belonged to.
Viking poetry
Viking Gods
Research a Viking God and make a poster about
them. Present your ideas in an eye catching
way.
Create a poem about a Viking arriving in
Ancient Britain. What did they do?
How did they feel being so far from
home? What were their first
impressions of Britain?
Viking Money problems
Jorvik was the name Vikings gave to the City of York. The Vikings would go there to trade and
spend their money. Can you use the clues to find out how much money this Viking had in their
purse?
Torhild had up to 100 coins .
When he put them in groups of seven, there were none left over.
When he put them in groups of eight, there were two left over.
When he put them in groups of nine, there were eight left over.
How many coins did Torhild have.?
Websites: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory, www.woodland-junior.kent.school.uk