Viking Presentations

Vikings

 

Mr. Flynn's Third Class

 

As well as the last day of term before the Easter Holidays, Mr. Flynn's class were also finishing their Vikings topic. We had a lot of work to finish today, with our projects to be presented, our video of 'Literally' to be shot and our Viking plays to be performed, so all hands were on deck to get everything done before noon. Thankfully, by noon we just managed to get it all completed and left for home happy with a good day's work done.

 

 

Vikings at large!

 

'Literally!

 Scoil Niocláis version

 

The class reenacted the Vicious Viking 'Literally' song from the Horrible History series on BBC.

 

 



 

 

 

 

Viking Projects

 

 

The class presented their projects on the Vikings. We had nine in total, looking at different aspects of Viking civilisation. The children presented their projects through Powerpoint and the standard was very high. Well done to all the groups!!

 

 

 



 

 

 

 Ahoy Vikings!!!

 



 

 

 

 

Viking Plays

We also performed two plays, titled 'A Viking Tale' and 'The Death of Balder'.

 

 

 

 





Scoil Niocláis

 

Science Fair 2013

 

 

All of our third classes participated in the annual Scoil Niocláis Science Fair. Although the weather was miserable outside, the excitement inside the halla was electric. The children had spent a lot of time preparing for today and all their efforts were worthwhile. Well done to everyone!

 

As we have five third classes this year, it was decided to divide the classes into two different sessions. Mr Flynn's, Ms. Quigney's and Mr O'Connell's classes taking the early session and Mr Foley and Ms. O'Callaghan's classes on in the afternoon. Many of the childrens' parents also came along to view what the children had prepared and all the parents were very happy with the Science Fair. All of our first and second classes also came to visit and are looking forward to their turns in the next couple of years.

 

Included is a photostory of today's events with some short videos displaying some of the experiments on show.

 

 

 

 

Rocket Launch

 

 

Walking on Air!!!

 

 

 

Volcanoes

 

 



World Book Day

Mr. Flynn's class have been very busy over the last couple of weeks studying the Vikings or Norsemen. The Vikings came from present day Scandinavia.We have found out that the Vikings are not as bad as they are sometimes protrayed. Eventhough, they were fierce warriors and deserved the 'Vicious Viking' name they earned, they were also great explorers, adventurers, craftsmen, traders and sailors. We have also learned that the Vikings travelled great distances by sea and were brillant boat builders. They discovered Iceland, Greenland and it is also said they landed in Newfoundland hundreds of years before any other explorers. They also travelled to France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland and as far away as modern day Iran and Iraq.

Did you know that Normandy in France is named after the Norsemen (Vikings)!

 

 

We have also had some great fun building our own 'Longboats', the name of the Viking ships. We all helped to make a large longship on display outside our class. It is complete with our own Roundtower with monks David, Darren and Elaina not looking too happy with the sight of the Vikings coming. With the help of our parents at home we have made our own models of the longboats.

 

 

 





 

We are all very busy with completing different projects on the Vikings. Each group has three of us working on different aspects of Viking life. The projects include Viking Religion, Viking homes, food, weapons, burials, women and children, Viking warriors, differnt Viking jobs and Viking raids. We will get a chance to complete our projects using Powerpoint and present them to the whole class. Everyone is busy working on the projects!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know that many words that we use in English today have come from the Vikings, such as window, egg, cake, happy, sad, anger, scare, die, rotten, by law, berserker, mistake, hit and many more!

 

We will keep you up to date over the next couple of weeks as we plan to trace the footsteps of the Vikings in Cork with the help of local historian Kieran McCarthy.

 

Please enjoy the following Viking song we have been leaning in class, it is from the BBC Horrible History series and is called 'Literally'!



 



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