Colonial America Book Reflection

In Heathcote Elementary School, my class was assigned to make a Colonial America book. It was a long process of taking notes, planning my writing, writing my draft, typing my doc, and pasting it on to my google slides. Before we started our book, Mrs. Rickard gave us our topics. My topic was daily life of colonial women. First, I took notes and collected Information for my topic. Then, I planned out my writing and did my draft on paper. Next, I typed my draft on my doc. Last, I pasted my writing that was on my doc into my google slide. Finally, I did my pictures doc, bibliography, and glossary. The process took patience. My favorite part was making my google slide because I liked organizing the text and images.

I learned a lot from this experience. I used to only know a little about Colonial America, but now I know a lot about Colonial America. To get my information, I read books, articles, and websites. I used to think Colonial America wasn’t very interesting, but now that I know a lot about it I think it’s very interesting. The most challenging part for me was my chapter 1 because I had to organize my notes and make a chapter with them. I learned that I can handle a difficult progress of making a book. If I did this project again I would find more words to put in my glossary because I want to teach kids more words and meanings. 

This is my Colonial America Book and I hope you enjoy it:

 

Colonial Day 2017

At Heathcote elementary school in 4th grade you have colonial day. It is when you get the full experience of colonial times. Dame school was my favorite activity because it was funny how they treated the girls with more respect  then the boys. I learned that instead of using pencils to write you would use a feather and ink. I want to learn more about the sheep wool. They served us pie, mashed potatoes, and corn bread. The dancing back then was very different then the dancing now. The activities we had were stenciling, candle making, dame school, toys and games, cooking and textiles, music, and dance. Colonial times is different from now because they didn’t have electronics like we do now. To play, they couldn’t go on electronics to play video games. and to contact each other you would need to talk in person. It was so much fun.

 

 

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