Colonial+Plantation-Group+6

Group 6-members: Gabrielle, Remi, Josh, Maayan. Use this space to report on our trip to Colonial Plantation. Use the following topics-. Each member of the group will report on one topic while others will edit/revise all the parts of the report. While one person is writing/editing this Wiki, the rest of the group can look for pictures to add as well as finding links and other useful information to put on this page.
 * 1) The archeology dig.
 * 2) The colonial Kitchen- cooking and tools.
 * 3) The colonial one room school- learning and writing.
 * 4) Appropriate links pertaining to your subject.

 Archeology Dig

In the archeology dig there were different jobs.

Jobs- Diggers Drawer Sifters

What we do is divide up the jobs 1 person draws and 2 people sift. Diggers dig in a box divided in 4. There are about 2-3 diggers in each box. There is a cycle with these jobs it goes like this: Diggers dig and show the drawer what they found and where they found the artifact then the diggers bring the artifact to the sifters and the sifters sift of the extra dirt after that the tour people have tooth-brushes and you can use the brushes for rubbing of any little specs of dirt. Then the cycle starts all over again. Doing this activity is exciting.

Warning: You don’t get to bring the artifact home.

Colonial Plantation-Cooking and Kitchen

At the Colonial Plantation, we learned about the tools they used for cooking and why they used them. We learned about the “S Hook” which was used to hold pots over the fire and just hang other tools like spoons and things. Even today I think I see “S Hooks” hanging from the ceiling in my kitchen. Another tool was a special spice box that held rare and expensive spices. Some people hung them from the ceiling because it was hard to reach and robbers and animals couldn’t get it. There were many tools in the kitchen, and those were just a few. There are many more tools to name, but I can’t name them all.

Colonial Dig

In the colonial times, they learned in a one schoolhouse. Everyone in the classroom was a different age. The children used quills, goose feathers, to write with. They wrote in colonial script. The children read from a primer. When a child walked into the classroom, they put an apple on the teacher’s desk. Each family took turns to feed the teacher and let her stay at their house. That is how they paid the teacher. The parents would switch off letting the teacher stay at their house. They could only go to school in the winter because they had to plant crops in the spring and harvest them in the fall.