Olympic Kick Off!

It's time for the Winter Olympics!

This year for the 2014 Winter Olympics we decided to do a school wide project. The kids and teachers have loved it so far.

We started our unit off by having TOGA TUESDAY!

Our staff and students came to school in togas.  I spent the week before teaching the students and faculty how to tie a toga. It was such a fun day seeing all the different types of designs. 

Here is the link for Toga Instructions 

At the end of the day we did our school wide torch run. All our students (in their cute togas) lined the walls so they could cheer for our torch runners. We had our student council run our tissue paper torch down every hallway as the Olympic theme music played over the intercom.

 This is our Olympic cauldron which will stay throughout the Olympics at our school.  Because of all our recent snow days we might be doing the Olympics in March.

Here I am in my Athena costume. I had to represent the goddess of wisdom and the arts!
Every student is making a clay Olympic medal for this unit. We have been very busy researching ideas for them to use.

Here are a few things we have been learning about in Olympic Art class:
-Greek Gods and Goddesses (mythology fits nicely into their literacy unit)
-Ancient and Modern Olympic history
-Countries and flags
-Geographical locations (using the amazing Google Earth)
-Torch relay and cauldron
-Olympic winter sports
-Olympic rings and meanings
-Climate
-History of Olympic medals