Colonial Day

The culminating event in the 4th grade study of Jamestown was not the big 10 hour field trip to Jamestown, but rather Colonial 

Day at school!  Boys and girls were asked to dress the part and started the day demonstrating the Virginia Reel in the gym.  They spent months working on this and it showed.  After the dance was complete, we went up to the classrooms to play colonial games, do some tin punching, make dreamcatchers, practice weaving, and quilt making.  I was thrilled to volunteer in the games room all day and we had a blast playing "Skittles", a large wooden tabletop game where the player spins a top and tries to knock down various pins.  We were even able to re-use the $3 Thomas Edison vest from last year's Biography Day!