{"id":782486,"date":"2010-11-29T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=782486"},"modified":"2011-02-01T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T17:37:55","slug":"colonial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/colonial-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Life Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew! We spent so long studying about the Thirteen Colonies and Colonial life. We started this study when I was pregnant, and it kind of came to a hault when I was so sick. But we finally<\/em> finished it. We decided that we wanted to finish it with a Colonial meal, then we realized that we were awfully close to Thanksgiving, so the kids agreed that that would make for a great Colonial meal. It did! We had a great feast–vegetarian style!<\/p>\n

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The kids dressed up in their Colonial clothes for the event. They’ve had so much fun with these clothes. It’s a little sad that they are going to grow out of them. The cousins that were here for Thanksgiving, also dressed up in Pilgrim and Indian costumes. What fun!<\/p>\n

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Now for what we’ve studied for the last long while on the subject. We read some really good books on the Thirteen Colonies. We continued to enjoy This Country of Ours<\/a><\/em>. We really do enjoy that book. The kids enjoy listening to the audiobook version<\/a> while they work on their lapbooks. We also enjoyed some other books about different people and experiences of the Colonial time period. Some of our favorites were Roger Williams<\/a><\/em> by Mark Ammerman<\/a>, Tattered Sails<\/em><\/a> (this one for it’s illustrations rather than the writing), Old Silver Leg Takes Over<\/a> <\/em>(Kids loved that book!),\u00a0The Carving Tree<\/a><\/em> (about Roanoake). We read several others, but these were the ones that we really, really enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Of course, we did lapbooks on Colonial America too. Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n

Lapbook covers by Zippy<\/a> and JD Boy<\/a> respectively<\/p>\n

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\nSlideshow of Zippy’s (age 10) Colonial Lapbook<\/p>\n