A Blast from the Ancient Greek Past

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Colby Abuhoff and Sally Brown

Somerset Academy Canyons (SAC) held its 7th annual Greek Day for 6th-grade students on Thursday, February 27th. Students were dressed in togas wearing leafy crowns as part of their costume for the day.

 

Students participated in a series of Olympic and intellectual events. The outdoor events consisted of a “dizzy-bat” race, 30-yard dash, football throwing, relay race, and knockout. Greek captains brought their navies to war with a game of battleship. Students wrote odes to the gods in the form of haikus. In teams of four, students tested their wits in a game of ancient Greek trivia. Students then participated in games of Pictionary.

 

“I’ve learned about the story of Iris and that there are more Greek gods than I knew before” Taylor Fossen, a 6th-grade student said.

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Taylor Fossen sure does have the style of an ancient Greek.

Students ended their days with a Greek lunch that began at 2:00 and ended at 2:30. The lunch consisted of grapes, mandarin oranges, black olives, chips, cake, grape juice, and apple juice.

 

“It has been fun because we’ve been learning different things about Greece and doing different things that relate to them” Rosspatrick Cumiskey, a 6th-grade student said.

 

 

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Students enjoyed A-lunch just before continuing with the day’s events.

 

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Parents helped prepare the lunch for the students.

 

 

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Students competed in intense games of Knockout.

 

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Students spun their way to victory in “dizzy-bats” races.

 

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Close relay races between students remained consistent in each set.

 

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Captains brought their navies to intense battles of Battleship.

 

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Students wrote haikus about Greek gods to reinforce their knowledge about them.

 

 

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Sabeen Calixte, Bryannah Michel, and D’anshae Munroe wrote their odes to their gods of choice.