Greek Olimpics

The Greek Olympics, this should take place some time after you learned about the ancient Greek's

6th graders get dressed in chiton's like the ancient Greek's we used white sheet's from home and safety pins ware regular school cloths under neath, have your kids come to school in them teachers also where chiton's to school if they do not bring a chiton than they can not participate.
Get all the 6th grade classes together and have one class be the parade of nations and sort all the 6 graders into groups like Athens, Sparta, Magara etc... and have them compete in compositions.
Have avry one compete we did it by gender and team like girls Sparta girls Athens, pick the winners from each city and have each of the winners comepeat in the same invent and then select the 1,2,3, places after all the invents are done congratulate the winners with wreaths and meddles.
After the games put on the movie Hercules ask your kids to " See if they can reconise the
Gods and Goddesses, and pay attention to all the Greek history that they put into the movie"
Ask moms to make a Greek lunch cheese, olives, bread, lots of grapes we put the olives and cheese on a shiscabob stick. For drinks water or white grape juice. Pause the movie and have the 6 graders serve them selves after every one is served and there is still more let them have seconds, thirds, froths in till all the food is gone after the firsts un-pause the movie.
After the movie is finished go back to the class rooms and do some thing till the end of the day the Greek Olympics will take most of the day.

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