Class Five got lots of practice with Ancient Greek style Direct Democracy, voicing their ideas and opinions during the planning of their class sleepover.  The planning of meals and scheduling of activities were debated, decided upon, and came to fruition thanks to lots of hard work and participation from the students, and generous support from the parents.

The sleepover went smoothly.  It was lots of fun and a good dry run for our trip up to the Perth Waldorf School Greek Olympics.  

Olympic event training continues, with the students measuring, recording, and graphing their results, as we transition into our new maths main lesson of decimals and metrics.  We had more practice with metrics (costings and quantities) in the preparation of our Greek Feast last Thursday.  The students made Spanakopita triangles and honey soaked, Melomakarona biscuits, for their Greek Meze platters.  The cheesy pittas were the firm favourite, but the dolmades were not so popular.

The feast afforded us an opportunity to revise our topic knowledge of Greek mythology, as the students enthusiastically role played being in attendance as the god or goddess that they had studied for their individual research projects.  There was much merriment and laughter around the table as we reminisced about the glorious battles with the Titans, the Typhon, Echidna, and the hounds of Cerberus.

Due to popular demand many precious teddies were invited to join the sleepover.  Tegan would have been proud of the students’ first aid skills, as they patched up and cared for some of their well-loved and slightly worn-out old teds!