Grade 4 Unit 2 The Wonder of Norse Mythology 1
Embark on an epic journey through the captivating world of Norse mythology, where creativity, language, and ancient stories come to life. In this unit, your child will delve into the magic of Norse myths, exploring the tales of gods, heroes, and mythical creatures that shaped the Viking world. Through engaging language arts activities, they will develop essential grammar and writing skills, from proofreading dictations to mastering nouns, adjectives, and the rules of apostrophes and exploring verb tenses, root words, and spelling rules.
As they connect with creation stories from various cultures, your child will also discover the ancient runes, learning to write and possibly craft their own set. They'll dive deep into the tales of Loki and Sif, drawing parallels between these legendary stories and their own experiences. By exploring literary elements like theme, character, and plot, your child will build a strong foundation in storytelling, enhanced by discussions, drama, poetry, oral presentations and creative writing exercises, building confidence and a strong speaking voice.
With the lively and humorous tales of the Norse gods as the backdrop, this unit promises to be a joyful and enriching experience full of creativity and discovery.
This purchase includes one digital curriculum unit with 15 days of lesson plans and 5 days of flexible projects. This unit will inspire you with beautiful images, clear instructions and exciting project ideas.
And that's not all. You will also gain access to the Wonder Hub, which includes supporting documents, videos, resources, and community.
The Wonder of Norse Mythology 1
Learning Standards
Concept 1: Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.
Connections: You will introduce your child to the magic of Norse Myths. They will work on proofreading dictations and reviewing nouns and adjectives.
Concept 2: Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and the world.
Connections: Your child will work on connecting with other creation stories they have heard from different cultures. Your child will look at runes, learn to write them and possibly make their own set. Your child will work with the rules for apostrophe use with plural nouns. They will learn to write a dictation. Your child will work on making connections between Loki's story and their own experience, as well as their own behaviour. Your child will work with literary elements: theme, character, setting, plot, conflict, and purpose, concerning the story, Sif's Golden Hair, through discussion, drama and writing. They will write a self-assessment to reflect on their skills, abilities and hopes for growth.
Concept 3: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Connections: You and your child will look more specifically at past, present, and future tense in language and learn about root words, prefixes, and suffixes, as well as proper spelling rules. Your child will play with verbs and adverbs and understand the use of the apostrophe. They will have a dictation using prepositions; they will work with commas and work on the writing process of proofreading. Your child will recall the previous day's story with drama and attention to the literary elements and write a concrete poem. Your child will work with oral language features and practice reciting and reading aloud to build confidence and develop a good speaking voice to bring interest to their audience.
Social Studies
Concept: Construct arguments defending the significance of individuals/groups, places, events, or developments.
Connections: The Norse Myths provide diverse behaviours and challenges that can create wonderful discussions built upon arguments and defence of a specific action.
Science
Concept: Earth and the moon's motions cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems.
Connections: Your child will observe the weather pattern each morning, noting the seasonal changes and how the plants and flowers outside are responding.
Math
Concepts: Regular changes in patterns can be identified and represented using tools and tables. Development of computational fluency and multiplicative thinking requires analysis of patterns and relations in multiplication and division.
Connections: Your child will review previously learned math concepts in their workbook and through math activities.