Greece

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. (=

 

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:

  • I can see a large flat green area to the north
  • I can see a hand
  • It has a really long and jagged coastline
  • It is surrounded by shallow waters which will be warmer than deeper water
  • It is a mountainous country
  • There are loads of islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

-tious and -cious word endings

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 

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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

 

 

 

 

Wisdom Begins in Wonder

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.

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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.

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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.