Researching the who, what, when, where, why of our colony
Colonial News
The Thirteen Colonies jigsaw puzzle
Learning about the staple crop of corn
Corn husk dolls
More corn husk dolls
Some of our dolls looked like Attean and Matt in The Sign of the Beaver
Churning butter
An old fashioned horn book
A horn book lesson
A great game to learn about early American life
The "Southern Colonies" playing "Made for Trade"
The "New England Colonies" playing "Make for Trade"
bilboquet, a colonial game
Incorporating math:
5 catches out of 10 attempts = 5/10 = 50%
A Colonial Report:
Connecticut
Colony by Q
My colony is
located on the edge of New England and on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The
Native Americans lived long before the Europeans came. Some Native Americans
farmed, hunted, fished and traded. Thomas Hooker founded the Colony in 1636.
Thomas Hooker was also a Puritan leader and settled the Colony in the first
place. He was very
dissatisfied with Massachusetts, because he didn’t like how Winthrop and other
Puritans ran the colony. Therefore he led a congress through the wilderness to Connecticut.
Thomas Hooker and other Puritans were the leaders who settled the Colony. The
main jobs and trades were manufacturing, fur trading, teaching, farming, gun
trading and workers.
The colonial houses
and barns in Connecticut were well made with a fireplace, 2 bedrooms, 1 living
room, a garden and a barn.
The people in the
house were usually a mother, a father, one maid and 3 children.
The major transition
that happened to the colony was they signed the Declaration of Independence and
the 13 colonies became the first 13 states.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
The author, Q, was born in Middletown Connecticut on January,
26, 2005. I have learned more about Connecticut as I was doing this report
about it. Now I know a lot more about Connecticut.
