Saturday, March 15, 2008

The Mayflower

The past two weeks for "school" we have been learning about the Mayflower that sailed in 1620, the separatist and William Bradford. We read some books, built a ship, made a mosaic of William Bradford, tested sinking and floating objects, and had boat races. Following will be some pictures of our projects and personal testimonies of what each kid learned.
The Model Mayflower that the kids made

Aiden: Q: What do you remember about the Mayflower?A: The weapons. There was a small group of people. They didn't have bathrooms, but special kind of bowl called a chamber pot. It probably smelled really bad because a lot of people were sea sick. Q: Where did the Mayflower start? A: England Q: Who was William Bradford?A: A man on the Mayflower.
Q: What else do you remember about this study?
A: When we did sink or float the legos floated, the head floated, Gwen's toys floated. Emma's toy horse sunk.

Emma:

The Mayflower was not a comfortable place. They had straw mattresses to sleep on, they had Bible's, they had some books, they didn't have toilets. They had a top floor and a bottom floor and a middle floor. Some people had hammocks. There were woman and children on the ship. One of the captins was called Captin Jones. William Bradford was on the ship. He kept a journal about what happened on the Mayflower.
Our Mosaic of William Bradford

Robyn:

The Mayflower was a boat that sailed from England in 1620. It stopped in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. William Bradford was on the boat with 102 people. Some of those people were called Separatist. They called themselves Separatist because they wanted to be separate from the Church of England and find a new place. Pilgrim means a person who is looking for a holy place. There were children on the boat they might have had things like a rag doll, marbles, puppets, but not very many toys. William Bradford kept a journal. If he hadn't kept a journal we wouldn't know much about the Mayflower. He also wrote the Mayflower Compact which was an agreement to keep peace among the pilgrims.

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