Ancient Greek Olympics

Last week, you all handed in some excellent homework projects about the Ancient Greek Olympics. You chose a sport from the original Olympics and presented what you had learned in different ways. Some children chose to use art to show what they had found, some used ICT and some made posters or booklets. Well done! Here are some excellent examples:

Olympic Horse Racing Aimee 
 

Aisling Trumpeting 
 

Ancient greece wrestling michael 

Our Class Poem- Death Drop

Icarus and Daedalus had just got to the roof of the palace and strapped on their wings. Icarus thought carefully about flying and falling.

After reading up to this point in the myth, we watched two video clips- one of Felix Baumgartner free falling from space and one of an eagle flying with a camera on its collar, so we could see his view point.

We then collected lots of similes and metaphors for FALLING and FLYING.

 

Each team chose their best similes and metaphors and wrote them onto strips of paper.

We used these fantastic metaphors and similes to create this class poem, by playing around with the order, punctuation and verses.

Can you spot a simile? Can you spot a metaphor?

Death Drop

I circle the sky like a vulture,

As fast as a hawk,

The wind’s fingers pulling my hair,

I am as happy as a bird,

I put my arms out to enjoy the ride,

The wind howls blood-curlingly in my ear.

 

Falling like you’re FROZEN,

As cold as winter could be,

As scary as a roller coaster,

My stomach plummets to its very depths,

Feels like my heart came out of my mouth,

Falling like space debris,

Like a bird left its home.

 

Rock falling to Earth,

As terrified as a bee getting squashed,

I collapse like a roof caving in.

 

By St. George’s Class

Icarus Puppets

On Friday, we found out that Daedalus and Icarus had escaped from King Minos' palace. King Minos was furious! We wrote very persuasive letters from the King to try to persuade Daedalus to come back.

In the afternoon, we made these fabulous puppets of Icarus:

Medusa Masks

Today we worked with Mrs Cook to read the story of Medusa, then make these terrifying masks! Don't look directly into our eyes... we might turn you into stone!

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

 Table 4

Middle Table

A Taste of Ancient Greece!

We have started our new topic! We have enjoyed reading the beginning of the myth of Icarus and Daedalus.

Today we went back in time to a banquet at the palace of King Minos! We tasted some Ancient Greek food and some interesting combinations of flavours:

Bread dipped in honey

Bread dipped in wine (grape juice for us!)

Olives

Dates

After our tasting session, we each wrote a menu fit for a King's banquet:

By Sonny

 By Roderick

By Molly