{"id":53396,"date":"2020-10-16T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/?p=53396"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:12:32","slug":"homeschool-history-a-vikings-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/homeschool-history-a-vikings-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool History: A Vikings Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Learning about the Vikings? Us, too! To celebrate the completion of the unit, we threw a Viking celebration feast! Check out the details below to see how we brought history to life!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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History is my favorite subject to teach the kids. Not only do we get pulled into the stories, it also brings up incredible conversation topics and gives us many chances to connect fun experiences to learning. This year we are learning about early American history through Beautiful Feet, a literary based curriculum<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See all our current curriculum picks for first and third grade here<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We adore this curriculum, and have used it before for world geography. Literary-based means it uses books to teach history, breaking each one into digestible chunks and offering thoughtful questions and discussion points along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curriculum is engaging, well thought out, and includes the best extras that bring learning to life. My favorite example of this in our current curriculum is The Historic Table feature in each unit that features foods authentic to the time period and\/or people we are learning about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We just finished our unit on the Vikings, which was taught using the book Leif the Lucky<\/a><\/span>. We all really enjoyed the story of Erik the Red and his son Leif, and all their adventures, including being the first Europeans to set up a settlement in North America. What, not Christopher Columbus?!- <\/em>the girls’ minds were blown.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Leif<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In celebration of our conclusion of the study, we had a Viking feast! There isn’t much more we enjoy that connecting a celebration with education. Our Harry Potter book party<\/a><\/span> is still one we talk about weekly. Food and fun just makes things stick in the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We donned our Viking helmets<\/a><\/span> and gathered our goodies. For our feast we had the following Norwegian foods that were listed in the Historic Table section of the teacher’s guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n