New Baby

Delaney Etta McCarthy was born on Oct. 26th at 8:06 p.m. I hope you are all enjoying class! I'll be back on Nov. 9th.

My Pumpkin

Here is the pumpkin I carved for Halloween this year. It's Mt. Rushmore.





You can look in the archives under October 2006 to see my pumpkins from last year.

Colonial Travel Fair

On Octboer 17th we held our Colonial Travel Fair. Groups presented information about their colony to other students in order to entice others to move there. Everybody did a great job and the fair was a big success!

Preparing for the Colonial Travel Fair

As part of our study of the 13 English Colonies in America, students are currently working on preparations for our Colonial Travel Fair. The fair will have several booths designed to entice others to move to their colony.

The Fair will be held on Wednesday Oct. 17th

Act-It-Out: The Surrender of New Amsterdam

Our final act-it-out for Unit 2: European Exploration and Settlement, was on the surrender of New Amsterdam to the English.





One student from each class portrayed the colony's Dutch governor Peter "Peg Leg Pete" Stuyvesant, while others played the roles of Dutch colonists trying to persuade him to surrender (as usual, I played the on-the-scene reporter).





Governor Stuyvesant was prepared to defend his colony, until he was informed that his supply of gun powder was damp and useless. Without a shot being fired, New Amsterdam was handed over to the British who renamed the colony New York.