After learning about the Ancient Greek Olympics, we decided that we would compete in our own Olympics - mainly the sports in the Ancient Pentathalon!! I bought some wooden dowels for javelins and our first even was the javelin throw. The boys lined up behind our chalk line and threw the "javelins". We then measured the distance from our chalk line to the place where each javelin landed. The winner of this event was Carter!!
Our next event was running. We had three different races up and down our sidewalk and Cooper prevailed in all the races but one!! He sure is fast!!
Next, the boys competed in the discus throw. We used a regular frisbee for our discus and after the boys threw, we measured the distance from the start line to where the "discus" landed. We threw the "discus" three times and Carter won all three!!
Lastly, the boys competed in jumping. The boys ran and when they came to our chalk line, they had to quit running and jump as far as possible. As you can see from the picture, Cooper won several times!! After the jumps, we measured the length of each boy's jump!! They really had a great time with these activities! The boys did not compete in the final event of the Ancient Pentathalon, which was wrestling. If you know our children, then you will know why!
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