Viking Adventure

Viking Adventure

Wilf and Wilma came to the door. It was timeto go to school. Kipper told everyone about hisadventure at the Teddy Bears’ picnic. But nobodybelieved him.

Biff, Chip and Wilf were in Mr Johnson's class. The children liked Mr Johnson. He madeeverything interesting and he told lots of goodstories. Mr Johnson had a model ship. “ Can you tell me what sort of ship this is?” he asked. Wilf put up his hand. “ It's a Viking ship, " he said. “ Well done, Wilf, ” said Mr Johnson.

Mr Johnson showed the children a picture of aViking ship. “ This ship was called a longship, " he said. “ Ithad oars and a sail and it moved very fastthrough the water. ” “ The Vikings lived a long time ago, ” saidMr Johnson. “ They crossed the sea in ships likethis. ” Mr Johnson showed the children a Viking helmetand a Viking shield.

Mr Johnson helped the children with a Vikingproject. It was very interesting. They made modellongships and they made Viking shields andhelmets. Mr Johnson took the children into the schoolhall. They made a big longship. Then they alldressed up as Vikings and pretended to row it. “ It's hard work being a Viking, ” said Biff.

The children came home from school. Theylooked at the magic key, They wanted it to glowbecause it had not glowed for a long time. Kipper told them about his magic adventure butstill nobody believed him. Kipper was upset. “ The magic key glowed in the night, ” he said. “ It glowed when it was dark. It did, it did, it did! ” Biff looked at the key. “ 【 wonder. . . ” she said.