Daily+Living+-+Schools+and+Children

** Compare the daily life of settlers and children in each region. **
 * Tasks: **

** Compare your life to what you learned about the lives of children in the 1700's. Explain the benefits and drawbacks to growing up in the colonial times. **

3/28/11 Questions we have: 5. What was the ages in the school? How many teachers?
 * 1) What was school like?
 * 2) What did children learn back then?
 * 3) Was every child forced to go to go to school?
 * 4) Did they have homework? If yes what was it?


 * 1) How did the children help back then
 * 2) Were the girls treated differently then the boys?

We HAVE LEARNED ABOUT SCHOOLS, CLOTHING WHAT PEOPLE DID AT HOME AND WHAT THEY ATE. WE LEARNED ABOUT THE northern SOUTHERN AND MIDDLE COLONIES. We also going to start about the games kids play. We are reading about what they did in school what the cloths is made out of and we decided that we are not doing food anymore we changed it to games that kids played. __Clothing__
 * Used berries, roots,and leaves for dye
 * Kids dressed exactly like their parents
 * Wealthy colonists copied styles from England

__Food__
 * Corn saved most colonists from starvation
 * Brought seeds for peas, onions,and carrots
 * Were taught to grow corn from Squanto, a near by Indian
 * Cider and beer were common drinks
 * Breakfast was usually mush
 * Lunch was usually stew
 * Dinner was usually leftovers with bread and cheese

__School__
 * After tutoring, few boys attended college in England
 * Only upper class children had tutors
 * Lessons took place in the student's homes
 * Tutors soon were like part of the family
 * Girls learned to weave,spic,cook,and sew
 * If a boy whispered or giggled, they would sit with the girls and if a girl whispered or giggled, they would sit with the boys
 * Had harsh punishments for not behaving appropriately
 * everybody in town not just families with children paid for a school
 * Many people paid with corn

__Games__
 * all games in coloinail times were made from what they had
 * games were not from stores or factories
 * people very busy but still time for games