Trips & Workshops
Mayans – religion and stars
We looked at the Mayan creation story, their Gods and about their thoughts on life after death. The girls were very interested in Pok-A-Tok, the game the Mayans used to play. Aggie tried to do it in the garden but found it really hard. We watched several YouTube videos of modern Mayans playing it. It’s ... Read more
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Mayan – trade and food
The most important topic when the Wints do history is food! The main crop for the Mayans was corn so we made some tortillas with homemade chilli and guacamole followed by hot chocolate with cinnamon, again using recipes from Twinkl (and all whilst wearing their PJs!). The tortillas tasted nicer than they looked! We would ... Read more
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Mayan – Rulers and Fashion
We looked at the responsibilities of Mayan rulers and were very happy to see some city states had female rulers. The girls were especially interested in the strange fashion ideas the Mayans had. The Mayans thought a pointed and flattened head was beautiful and so parents would press their babies heads between boards which over ... Read more
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Mayan Maths!
The Mayans invented a new number system using only three symbols : a shell for zero, a dot which meant one and a dash which meant five. The girls were fascinated with this and so we spent a whole session doing maths the Mayan way. There were several worksheets on Twinkl which we used within ... Read more
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Mayans – Cities
We read through what Mayan cities would have looked like and then recreated our own out of Lego. We also had a look on Google Earth to see the ruins as they are today. That clearly showed how easily these huge structures could have been hidden for so long in the rainforests. We then watched ... Read more
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