Pilgrim Project

Chase has been working on our pilgrim unit for, well, way too long. He was kind of dragging his heels a bit on pilgrims because he "wasn't that into it". He liked Columbus, Jamestown even more, and is excited to start Daniel Boone, but pilgrims- not so much. I guess it wasn't exciting or adventurous enough. They didn't discover a whole new half of a world, or get mostly wiped out by a horrible sickness, or lose all their food in a fire. We also had so much going on during this unit, we were constantly interrupted which always makes it harder to really get involved in the unit. Oh well, so it goes. 

So, Chase decided to do a pilgrim lap book for his unit project, the culmination of months of notebooking, mapping, studying animals, the 13 colonies, pilgrim life, Squanto, and different Indian tribes. Some of the components of the lapbook or some of the projects he did are:

Apothecary Shop: learned about herbal medicines and colonial medical practices 

Tin Lantern: learned about colonial craftsman jobs

Learned about colonists- what work they did, how they dressed, and what their day was like

Colonial Houses

Colonial Dress- learned about the many layers of clothing and the reasoning for it

Colonial Food- made a recipe book

Farming- learned about what foods they grew and what tools they used, how much time they spent cooking, about the kitchen, and the different items used in it

How they made clothing, what the cloth was made out of

All about bees, why they were called bees, and how much colonists depended on each other for help

Wove a bed- learned all about pilgrim's houses

And how they decorated with stencils

Learned all about the original 13 colonies and who settled them 

He's proud of his work, we have a pretty thorough understanding of pilgrims, and we're ready to move on.