Did you know that Vikings didn't actually have horns on their helmets or that not every Viking's a blood thirsty tyrant? Vikings were mostly farmers and traders that lived in Scandinavia, which was built up with Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. They lived in barn like houses called 'halls' or 'longhouses' with their families and during the the winter they brought in their farm animals. Vikings did raid and kill though. They sailed to the to the coast of England and killed monks, took their treasures, and took some monks for slaves. This is what we learned about Vikings this week.
This week we learned about the Newbery Award. Okay so you know that the Newbery award is for kids, right? Well, kids have nothing to do with it. It's really the librarians that pick the books. We think that kids should actually have a say in it. It's not that grownups shouldn't be a part of it, but they see books differently than kids do.
This week in Social Studies we learned about Pangea, tectonic plates, and continental drift. Pangea was the name of the continents on Earth when they were joined together. A scientist named Alfred Wegner discovered this first, but no one believed him. He had found a way to fit all the continents around Africa. It turns out his theory was right. Tectonic plates are ike bases under the continents. These plates move about 3cm every five years. These plates broke apart and the continents drifted apart. This caused Australia to move towards the bottom of the world and change its climate. The continental drift also caused certain crops to grow in one place and not another. This is what we learned in Social Studies.
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