Muffin Tin Monday: Percy Jackson & the Greeks
Percy Jackson is a huge part of KarateKid’s imaginary play, since he adores the five-book series by Rick Riordan. This week, we decided to do some special Percy Jackson and Greek mythology studies to gear up for the first movie, The Lightning Thief, which comes out on Friday.
Originally we weren’t going to do a fancy muffin tin today, because there wasn’t a specific theme, and we were scheduled to have a Shakespeare planning session with our homeschool group starting at noon. Unfortunately, the leader of this project wasn’t feeling well today and had to cancel the meeting.
I couldn’t very well have the chicken nuggets and frozen veggies I’d planned back when I thought we needed to make a quick escape! So I took the kids to the supermarket for a tour of their Mediterranean bar to pick up some Greek food.
We brought home a mixture of green and black olives with feta cheese in a Greek dressing, frozen spanikopita, fresh dolmathes, pita chips, tzatziki (yogurt with cucumber, lemon, and garlic), and hummus. KarateKid also made a plea to remember Dionysus with a bottle of “wine” – sparkling grape juice.
The kids loved the olives, spanikopitas, chips and tzatziki. They weren’t crazy about the strong feta cheese or the dolmathes, but they both gamely ate everything!
We have been enjoying our Netflix streaming through our blu-ray player to watch Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Greek Myths. KarateKid and I have also been working through a fun etymological study of English words with roots in Greek Mythology at this site. More fun Greek stuff is planned for the week ahead, and then the big movie on Friday!









































