OUR OLYMPICS

To conclude our study of Ancient Greece, Rooms 10 and 15 held their own Olympics.
We were placed into groups of 6 students per group. There were 8 teams all up. We named our groups after Greek Gods, such as, Ares, Hades, and Poseidon. This is an example of three group's names.

The first game was very exciting. Each member of the group had a straw and the whole group had one Ping Pong ball. Three members were on one side of the room, while the other three members were on the other side of the room. Each individual group member had to blow through the straw and move the Ping Pong ball to another member of the group. this continued until all the members had a turn. It was harder to complete the task, than it actually looked.

 Another game was when we had to suck through a straw and pass 14 lifesavers from one plate into another plate. Each team member had to do this, then we had to redo it and end up back at the beginning of the group line. It was a close game and it became difficult to suck through the straw without laughing. 

 Our final game for the Olympics was so much fun, we had to dress the group captain in an Ancient Greece outfit. Sounds easy, well, we had to use newspaper to create the outfit. Yes, Newspaper!!!!
But, it was actually a lot of fun to do. We all enjoyed dressing our team captain in newspaper. We were really surprised, how creative we became. We made a tunic, shoes, head-dress and even weapons. We really enjoyed this particular activity.

 

 

 We really appreciate the hard work that the Olympians would have endured to compete, especially in the Ancient times. We had a great Olympics and enjoyed learning about Ancient Greece during Term 2. We learned about the many ancient Gods and how the people lived in the ancient times. The story of The Trojan Horse was fascinating. The horse structure was huge and it carried so many men. We learned about the Scientists and Mathematicians of Ancient Greece. People such as, Plato, Socrates and Archimedes.