Ancient Greece

We read all of the chapters in Story of the World about ancient Greece. We began with the dark ages and barbarians. Then we read about how the Greeks got an alphabet and the stories of Homer. The kids were especially interested in the Trojan horse. They made their own horses with these templates.

We learned all about the Olympic games and how they started in Greece. I posted earlier in the week about the Olympic games we did.

We compared Sparta and Athens using a Venn diagram. We read about the Greek gods and goddesses. We also read about Greece's wars with Persia and then with each other. We finished up today with Alexander the Great taking over Greece.

Notebook pages

Lapbook pieces: map with Greece colored, Venn diagram of Sparta and Athens, events from the ancient Olympics, Greek life- houses, children, entertainment, & clothing, Homer, meanings of symbols and traditions of the Olympics, Trojan horse with a flap that opens.

Some books we read:
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
Look What Came from Greece
The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Daulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Metropolis Greek Town
Adventures in Ancient Greece
Hour of the Olympics
Ancient Greece and the Olympics
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Max and Ruby's Midas

Lapbook pieces from here and here.

I'm hoping we can go to a Greek festival that's happening nearby next week.