Monday, June 21, 2010

Ancient Rome

Today we made stone tablets with Roman numerals. It was quite hard scratching the numbers into "stone". We shaped the tablet out of playdough and letthem dry in the oven. Then we had lots of fun painting them.

We mixed red, brown and white paint to make a terracotta colour.


We went over the Roman numerals in Indian ink.




Here's how they turned out.

Here are some things we learned about ancient Roman schools.

Some interesting facts were:


  • Children scratched letters into wax.

  • Roman books were scrolls made out of animal skins.

Some unfair facts were:



  • They were beaten with eel skin straps.
  • They arrived at school before sunrise.
  • Only boys learnt to read and write.
  • Only their fathers could teach them.
  • Girls were taught by their mothers to spin, weave and sew. They weren't allowed to go to learn to read.
  • Boys had to learn long speeches off by heart.

16 comments:

caleb said...

THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN ROME IS JULIUS CAESAR AND AUGUSTUS AND MARK ANTONY AND HADRIAN AND LUCKY LAST NERO

CALEB said...

WHAT IS A VILLA A VILLA IS A COUNTRY HOUSE FOR FOOD LIKE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Emma said...

The mothers also taught thier sons before the age of 7.

Emma said...

In the roman times if you didnt get married around the age of 15 16 you would get punished.

George.C said...

During ancient Roman days, there were three main ways that the people entertained one another.

Jayden said...

Girls were not allowed to read or write.

Ellen said...

girls were taught to sewing and needle work

Anonymous said...

Only rich boys went to school and Greek girls were not alloud to go to school.

Gemma said...

Whoops... Anonymous was Gemma

Emily said...

Hieroglyphics was developed around 3100 bc

cody said...

In the olden days the boys went to school to learn and the girls stayed home and cooked and cleaned.

cody said...

If you made one mistake when your writing in latin you would get a whack with a stick.

Verity said...

Roman kids played knucklebones made of sheep's and goat's ankle bones.

CAM123!!!!!!!!! said...

Its sad that old teachers were mean

CAM123!!!!!!!!! said...

Midas was a Greek god and whatever he
touched turned to gold - AWESOME!!!

I said...

Greece is good at soccer!!