Cat Studies Ancient Greece

The sixth graders at Cat's school studied ancient civilizations in social studies.  At the end of the year they applied many of the things they learned by having two big activities.  First, they had a "Greek and Roman Games" field trip to a nearby park where the kids participated in Olympics-type competitions and snacked on grapes, cheese, sparkling cider, olives, and such.  Luke and I chaperoned the field trip and I was stationed at the long-jump competition.  I set up two five-foot tape measures, assuming that it would be long enough to measure any sixth-grader's jump.  There were a few kids who jumped longer than 10 feet, but imagine my surprise when Cat jumped over twelve feet!  Prizes were awarded to the winner of each category, and Cat was the decisive winner of the long jump.  (She was also the fastest girl sprinter in sixth grade.)

I love that this kid photo bombed this picture of Cat and her best friends.
They had no idea until I showed them afterward.

The other cool thing was the first ever World Fair.  Each sixth grade class prepared displays on a variety of topics in order to teach parents and students at the school about their designated civilization.  Cat's class presented Ancient Rome and the other two classes were Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt.  Cat and her group were assigned to teach about holidays, transportation, and recreation.  Cat focused on the Roman chariot, an amazingly innovative invention at the time.  I thought it was fun that Cat brought our "horse-rider" costume as part of the display with the cardboard chariot her group made, then Luke tried it on along with a helmet.  Pretty cute.