Hear Ye!
Hear Ye!
Owen's third grade class just finished a unit on Colonial Annapolis. They learned all about the historic places and events in our hometown, once the nation's capitol and home to many signers of the Declaration of Independence.


During the month, they took a walking tour of Annapolis where they traveled the cobblestone streets, studying the architecture of the State House and the many historic homes, shops and taverns which look the same today as they did when George Washington visited. They made lots of sketches and notes and returned to the classroom where they worked with an architect Dad to make a scale map and model of colonial Annapolis. Owen and a classmate teamed up to worked on Reynolds Tavern and the State House.


They also had fun at a a colonial craft day where with lots of help from moms and teachers, they were able to make horn books (ask Owen), stitch a pocket, make a scented pomander, and churn butter.


At the presentation yesterday, they set up shop in old downtown. Each student had a shop; everything from the milliner to the blacksmith, the gunmmaker, the wigmaker... Owen was the brickmaker. He wrote a report, made a sign for his shop and answered lots of questions from curious colonists looking to build homes in the bustling revolutionary era. To celebrate the end of a long work day, the entire third grade sang all 90 verses of Yankee Doodle (ask Owen, again) and performed the Virginia Reel!


Excellent work, young sir. Now it's on to Williamsburg for Thanksgiving, so I must haste away and begin loading our trunks into our conveyance, for we journey forth in but a few hours. Good day, citizens!