The Romans and Mythical Creatures!!!!

Well 3M have been very busy since after half term, they started their new topic ‘The Romans’ which they have really enjoyed learning about. We learned a lot about the different types of Romans including Roman soldiers, Roman children, slaves and poor farmers. They learned about the different armour which the Roman soldiers used including the ‘Scutum’ which was the traditional shield used by the Roman soldiers. They designed their own shields by exploring with different shapes and creating patterns to complete their design. They painted the shields using the traditional colours of red and yellow which were the colours of the ‘Scutums’.

In literacy we have been studying various Greek and Roman myths such as ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’ and ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ which included mythical creatures. We created and designed our own mythical creatures and described these using adjectives and WOW words in Literacy. For our Literacy homework we had to make our own mythical creature and at the moment 3M’s classroom has been taken over by a lot of interesting and creative mythical creature designs. Fantastic effort and wonderful creativity from 3M!!!!

3M really enjoyed their role play to recreate parts of Greek and Roman myths which we studied. They used their Roman shields to protect them while fighting the mythical creatures and other Roman soldiers. They really got into the role of Roman Soldiers and had great fun indeed. They also worked really well as a team to form the ‘Turtoise formation’ which was used by the Roman Legions while to protect themselves in battle.

Bye for now,
Miss Moonan.