On December 15 I had something called Colonial Day. Colonial Day is when you go to school dressed up like colonial people. We did a lot of activities and we ate Thanksgiving food. My favorite activity was tin smithing.

The materials you need for tin smithing is an awl, a pie pan, a piece of string , and 2 pieces of tape. There were actors that pretended they are from colonial times and they gave us several patterns to choose from. After you chose your  pattern, you get the 2 strips of tape and you stick the piece of paper with the pattern on it. Then you get your awl and poke the dots on the piece of paper. And you’re done.

I went to an activity called Dame School. Dame school is a school that you would’ve been in if you were still in colonial times. We did a spelling bee and the girls went first. We got easy words like bat, sat, snow, cat, and other really short words. Then the boys went next and got hard words like Philadelphia, and liberty, and other hard words. I learned that boys got educated more than girls did because people expect more from them.

I want to know if girls were once educated more than boys and I know they expect more from boys but why can’t they be educated equally? I also want to know what’s the most important thing in colonial life.

Colonial times is different from today because we have electricity, different clothes and shoes, different food, we get educated equally, and more.