Greece
Greece is flood foothills and mountains across the land. Only a few places in Greece are flat. You won’t find many mountains around the coastlines of Greece. Coastlines curve in out of the land and sea. They are very jagged and filled with beaches. In the sea, there are many islands in Greece fill the Aegean Sea and also part of the Mediterranean Sea and the Ionian Sea. Overall, there are 1400 islands the fore fill the land of Greece. (=
LO: Can I vary my clauses to describe the physical features of Greece ?
These are the physical features of Greece that I can observe:
My Introduction to the landscape to Greece
If you love hot sunny beaches go to Greece. There is warm water (and no sharks). The water is pure and sparkling and the gold and silver sand glistens. If you are a photographer this is a dream country, everywhere there are mountains where you can stand on top of them and take pictures.
This week Year 6 have been learning to spell words that end in -tious and -cious.
We have begun to explore the patterns in these words as well as their meaning.
What does it mean?
The -tious and -cious are part of the -ious suffix. This suffix essentially means ‘full of’ or ‘having’ which can help us undertsand what the word means.
For example :
The word Spacious is made of the root word space and the suffx -ious. So the word spacious means ‘having space’ or ‘full of space’
This is a spacious car.
In in this sentence the word spacious tells us that car ‘has space‘ or is ‘full of space‘
Grammar
Words ending in -tious or -cious are generally adjectives. In fact, adding the suffix -ious to a noun can turn it into an adjective.
Words
| Green Challenge | Blue Challenge | Purple challenge |
| spacious
vicious gracious precious delicious conscious cautious infectious precautious scrumptious |
unconscious
suspicious ferocious luscious atrocious ungracious fractious superstitious ambitious fictitious |
subconscious
tenacious semiconscious malicious judicious vivacious contentious conscientious nutritious unambitious |
This week Year 6 launched their new topic for the spring term: Wisdom begins wonder. Over the next term, Year 6 will be learning about the hugely influential and fascinating golden age of Ancient Greece.
We launched our topic by re-enacting the trial of Socrates, who was an Ancient Greek philosopher that had been been accused of ‘corrupting the youth’ and denying the the city gods.
Unfortunately, the citizens in our Heliaia (law court) followed the course of history and voted to have the old philosopher drink the hemlock.
Woman were not allowed to be jurors in the law courts of ancient Athens, so we had to ‘beard-up’ to make sure none had snuck in.