| Mayflower |
Housing |
- The Mayflower was recreated, so that we could learn about it.
- The Mayflower was a cargo ship, which means it carries things.
- The Mayflower was called a "she" or "her".
- The Mayflower ran intoa a bad storm and there was a huge hole in it and the Pilgrims used something to fix it.
- The Mayflower got off course and sailed to Massachusetts.
- The Mayflower sailed from England.
- Pilgrims wear clothes.
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- The frames of the houses look like the house frames of today.
- The houses were small, about 800 square feet.
- They built a palisade around their village to protect it.
- The roofs were very steep and made of straw.
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| Clothing |
Food |
- Boys use points like shoestrings to hold up their pants.
- Boys and girls wore dresses till the age of 6 or 7.
- They didn't wear belts.
- They tied pockets around their clothes.
- The girls wore a tight hat called a coif.
- They died their clothes with plants.
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- They ate with their hands.
- They wiped their hands on a cloth they kept on their shoulder.
- They did not have forks.
- They only used spoons and knives.
- They eat oysters.
- They eat 3 meals a day.
- Their biggest meal was in the middle of the day.
- They mostly ate seafood like mussels, because they lived near the ocean.
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| Chores |
School |
- It wasn't easy to heat their homes. They had to find wood and cut it for themselves.
- They drank fresh water.
- Girls picked up animal droppings for their plants.
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- The kids were taught at home.
- The parents taught their children to read and write.
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| Games |
The First Thanksgiving |
- They played a marble game.
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- They have to shoot their own food to get meat.
- They ate deer, squirrels and rabbits.
- The children played blind man's bluff as a game.
- They didn't eat mashed potatoes back then.
- They didn't eat turkey at the first Thanksgiving.
- They ate squash.
- Most of the time they ate together, but sometimes they ate separately.
- They ate corn back then.
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Resources:
The First Thanksgiving. October 18, 2011. www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving.
O'Brien, Patrick. The Great Ships. New York: Walker & Company, 2001.
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