Known as The Tree of Life, here are two different artistic expressions of The Nine Worlds in Norse
Mythology.
"...an enormous tree which grew right from the middle of the earth...so tall that its top touched
the vault of the sky; its branches stretched out over all the earth, and its huge roots went down to the deepest depth. The
dew that dripped from its evergreen leaves made flowers spring up all over Midgard, the earth. As long as the ash tree stood,
the world of the Aesir would last, for it was Yggdrasil, the world tree."
This is an artistic expression of Norse creation, as "...Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur made two teams
of horses, put the sun and the moon each into a cart behind them, and set the horses trotting across the sky."
Here is an artistic rendering of Thor, a god from the Norse myths. Each of
the gods represents a particular human trait (for example, Loki and mischief, Thor and anger, etc.), which meets
the child where they "live" at this age, particularly as they are striving to come to terms with some of these virtues
within their own selves now.
This is a clay model of a Viking ship, inspired by Norse mythology.
Here is more from a Norse myths Main Lesson book. Note the use of cursive writing (vs. only printing) used in the text at this age.
During this block, we also:
- visited a museum with an exhibit related to Norse mythology
- created Thor's hammer (clay modeling)
- studied the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda
