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St. Joseph Hosts Colonial Days Trade Fair
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Mrs. Betty Anne Watt and Mrs. Jennifer McElwain’s 4th Grade classes at St. Joseph School in Bowling Green, Ky. hosted a "Colonial Days Trade Fair" on Monday, November 19, 2001. The classes learned about the Colonial Days through the study of the Northeast Region in Social Studies. The students also read the "Mayflower Adventure," a story of the pilgrims from Holland who traveled on the Mayflower to the New World.
Through the study of the hardships these people faced, the starting of the first settlements, and the necessities of life in the colonies, the students learned about the different trades of the first settlers. The students brought props, wrote scripts and dressed in costume for the different trades.
The students were Chandlers, who made the candles and soaps, Barbers, who cut the men’s hair and offered baths to the men, Blacksmiths, who made tools and toys, Goldsmiths who made jewelry and even filled teeth with gold, General Store Merchants, who sold everything the pilgrims needed, and the Limners who were portrait artists. Many other trades were represented and the students learned a lot from the experience.