On Friday, we went to a "Night at the Museum" outing. It was not night and it wasn’t a museum but it was a lot of fun!! (oh, and ahem! educational too).
We had to choose a character and come dressed as that person from the movie. We also had to have 3 facts about our character to share with the group for a quiz. So, we watched it and the boys decided to be the following:
He told me that cowboys like to settle disputes with guns, live and work on ranches, and go to rodeos.
He told me that Octavius was Julius Caesar’s nephew, beat Antony and Cleopatra, was called Caesar Augustus in the Bible and brought in the Pax Romana. All of those facts were not in the movie but are true to this historical character. He had remembered them from when we had studied Roman times and also from his reading.
We didn’t know much about him, so we looked up some pages online. Dexter is a Capuchin monkey, he’s found in South America, has a black tail and black and brown/grey fur. In the movie, he’s loving and giving when treated well and very cheeky!!
Mark was a Roman foot soldier but didn’t want me to take an individual one of him…
So, we turned up, had lunch and then got into some games. The children had to put the characters in chronological order, run to the continent listed on the wall to say where someone came from and play bingo.
After that, we all got a well-earned rest and watched the movie together. Apart from the technically-induced intermission, it went smoothly.
I’ll just put a few more piccies below:
History certainly came alive and we had a great time! Thanks for organising it, Donna and thanks to all who made it a wonderful day.
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