Students came dressed in colonial attire and I transformed the classroom into "Marinburg" since we live in Marin County. We started the day with a "town meeting" during our morning meeting time. Students greeted each other with a bow and shared what occupation they would be if they lived in colonial times.
Then I designed a colonial math lesson that taught students how they used commodities to buy items if they did not have money. They previous designed a a commodity poster that then they had to convert their commodity into dollar amounts. They filled in a worksheet I designed to complete their conversion math along with reflection questions.
Then it was time to rotate through different stations to try different colonial skills. I had three groups: Northern Colony, Middle Colony, and Southern Colony and three stations.
First Station: Declaration of Independence Writing
Students had to write part of the declaration of independence with a quill feather and black paint.
Second Station: Marbles Game
Students play marbles, which was a colonial game played by children.
Third Station: Making Butter
Students shook cream in a mason jar for 7-10 minutes to make butter.
After the rotations were done, we took at break for recess. Then after recess, we had "Tea Time" snack where we pretended that King George just enacted the Tea Act. I taught students proper tea etiquette and we enjoyed English tea and biscuits/cookies. We also had English muffins with our homemade butter. Students thought the butter and tea were delicious!
Our last event of the Colonial Day was reading a reader's theater of Continental Congress.
It was a successful day of learning and bringing history to life! To find more fun history lesson, check out my TpT store for other fun US History and CA History lessons.
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