Friday 23 November 2012

Greek Day!

Today was Maple class's Greek day. This is to celebrate our topic on the Ancient Greeks. We dressed up as ancient greeks and all wore a toga or chiton.
 In the morning, we made city state banners and wrote in greek. We made laurel headbands. After break, we tasted Greek food. Some of us thought it was absolutely horrible; others thought it was delicious! We tried: Tzatziki, olives, feta cheese, taramasalata, celery, cucumber, pitta bread, hummus, tomatoes,dates, grapes and 'red wine' (actually Ribena) We even tried a bit of greek dancing!!
 During the afternoon, we held a MICRO OLYMPICS. We had cotton wool ball shotput, matchstick javelin, 2p coin discus, flicking frog long jump and tissue paper fish swimming. We named our teams and measured the distances for each member.
 The team names were: The Olympians Zeus Argives Diamond Dragons The Godesses All in all we had a great day. In fact we'd call it a 'Greektastic'day!


 

5 comments:

  1. Hello Maple class, it certainly did look like you have has a 'Greektastic' day. The smiles on your faces showed me that you had so much fun celebrating your learning. I wonder which was your best activity and why? I love visiting your blog and have enjoyed sharing it with my class. Thank you for a great week to our quadblogging buddies.
    From your friends at High Lawn

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  2. Hi Maple Class,
    What a fabulous day you had. I love Greek food. We are very lucky to have many Greek families living in Melbourne, so we have a great choice of Greek restaurants to visit. My mouth was watering from all the delicious Greek foods that you tried. Have you ever tasted Tabouli Salad?
    Was the dance that you did the Zorba?
    There is a funny video of Indigenous Australians dancing to the zorba on the back of a truck. It is a scene from a movie called 'Bran Nue Day'
    Thanks for sharing your wonderful learning about Greece.
    Mrs Verona Gridley and SeniorG

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  3. Hi Maple Class,
    Your Greek day looked so much fun! I'm sure the Reception children would like to learn some of the 'Olympic games' you played. If any children are free on 'Toy day' to come and demonstrate them I think the children would be very interested.
    From Mrs Q-L

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  4. Well what a wonderful day this was I really enjoyed tasting the diffrent Greek food it was nice and a diffrent thing to do in class then just work but it was a really fun day I liked the tzaziki the best the humice I wasent so keen on

    from elise in maple class

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  5. it looked as if you had so much fun it was fun when we did it on our Greek day aswell.

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