I’ve found the rest of my photos pertaining to our ancient Greek studies (still can’t find my Roman ones) and thought I’d post some of them in a few ‘looking back’ posts. ‘Looking back’ posts are full of the learning we did prior to me keeping a blog. As they are part of our past and contain many activities and memories we decided we would include them for posterity. The children are about 8 years old.
This post covers the learning we did with the Spartans. These are a couple of the non fiction books we used:
And these are the fiction books we read:
We made a few note pages about the Spartans:
And completed the Spartan v Athenians part of the Ancient Greek History Pockets:
The Usborne book above contains a double spread page about how the Spartans lived. Instead of more note booking I asked the children to dress up and act out the two pages. I then took photos:





We then turned these photos into note pages for the children as reminder:
Such fun looking back!
The kids look fierce in their costumes! Love how much the dress up really brings history to life.
T12 is getting too old for it now (sniff, sniff). Gone are the days when the older three played make believe for hours on end. Watching them was a privilege I’ll never forget.
I can relate – we have two tickle trunks of dress up clothes I’ve been collecting since Pea was oh so young, that she used to loooove to play with. Now I keep looking at it and debating donating it all – the girls have just outgrown it, but I’m not ready to let it go! Sniff, sniff as well!
They look so into what they are doing!!
Great lesson!
Thanks Emma!
I love their costumes, you always have the best costumes for acting out lessons. I need to work on improving my costumes.
I hope you’re linking these up to the history/geography linkie 🙂
Yes! I’ll go over and do it right now!
I love this! What fun. I love their costumes.
Yes, they do love a good costume!
They do look fabulous! Brilliant to look back on for review. Is that a travel cot in the driveway (keeping a little A safe?)! 🙂
I think she was about 6 months old then. How time flies…..