Wednesday, March 27, 2013

March 28, 2013 Experiencing the Colonial Days

 
 
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
 
 
 Writing with a quill
 
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.                    

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