Cruise Stop #12 - Italy

Italy was fun so we spent a whole week there.  Students learned a legend about how a dance, The Tarantella, was meant to cure the bite of a tarantula.  The townspeople made up this story because it was the only way the king would let them dance.  It was fun to dance and shake the tambourines.  Students also played a popular European game called Bocce Ball.  This has participants rolling balls to see who can get closest to a very small ball that is thrown in the grass at the beginning of the game.  In Rome, students learned about the Roman Coliseum and the gladiator battles that took place.  We had sword fights with swim noodles.  The object was to knock a ball off the opponent’s cone.