Thee Mighty Saga of Explorer Learning

We learned about explorers, landforms, and division this week.

This week we learned about Greeks and Vikings explorers.

Greeks:
There was once a blind poet named Homer. He was a Greek and also was the author of Odyssey. The Odyssey is just about this guy named Odysseus that wanted to go home. He had to battle a giant cyclops, pass swirling whirlpool and Battle a humongous army. Odysseus explored the islands and sent out troops to explore the new territory they found. Odysseus is a character from the book that Homer wrote. Some of the islands Homer mentioned in it were real and he mentions some of the maps in it to show how big the Greeks though the world was. Homer never wrote down the story, it was passed down through generations and then eventually was written into a book. The Greek king named Alexander the Great wanted to explore lands while he led his troops to battle so he brought geographers and recorders so he could record the land and see the different animals that lived there.

Vikings:

We also learned about Vikings. There is this one Viking that I thought was pretty cool named Erik the red. He first lived in Iceland with his mother, father, and two sisters. His dad had been banished from Iceland for murdering a man. Erik grew up and killed two men. He also had to be banished from Iceland. He grew up and had a son. He named his son Leif Erikson. Did you know that Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first one to discover America? Leif Erikson did. And to learn about what Vikings ate were going to make Viking bread. You can too at food network .com. I also read the kids' version to Beowulf. It was about this hero named Beowulf who fought ogres, Serpents and a giant monster named Grendel [In mine he didn’t have to fight his mom]. Beowulf was written during the time of the Vikings and he was kind of like a Viking in the books.

We also learned about the world map. Mommy told me about the places I just talked about were. We also learned about the Map. We learned about longitude, latitude, the Prime Meridian, and the equator. I am exhausted from all the writing so only a little more info. I also learned division. So if you have a question from division just shoot me an e-mail. I also [and this is the last time] learned about different land forms. They are named: strait, Gulf, Lake, bay island, river, isthmus peninsula, archipelago, and that’s all by!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!