1. Colonial Day
By: Anna Liguori, Lexi Wirges, Joseph Zitz, Daniel Kelly, Rebecca Zhang, and Noa Hayes

2. Food People loved to eat corn.
They also ate and planted pumpkins and squash the Indian way.
They planted and ate beans and trained them to climb up the cornstalks.
The men and boys fished for lobsters, clams, and many other kinds of fish.
The men and boys hunted for rabbits, squirrels, bears, and deer.
Meat was smoked, salted, and pickled.
Apples, pumpkins, and peaches were peeled, sliced, and hung to dry.
Colonial people drank cider made from apples, pears, and peaches.
Children and adults drank beer.

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4. Jobs Printers made legal documents, newspapers, books, and pamphlets
When they printed the papers, it was very important that there were no spelling mistakes or errors
The blacksmith was the most important job in any colonial settlement
The made and fixed all sorts of iron items such as, horseshoes, tools, axe heads, hammers, nails, and plowshares
The cobbler made and repaired shoes
Some towns had multiple cobblers and they specialized in all kinds of different kinds of shoes
The cooper made different containers such as, barrels, casks and buckets
Containers were very important in colonial America for sorting all kinds of things

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6. Homes Colonial Homes were not big or fancy, and they were not warm
Houses in Colonial Days had one room, it was called the Keeping room.
No matter how big the House was, the family used the Keeping room for cooking, eating, sleeping and working.
There were many kinds of houses. One kind house looked like a Saltbox.
Most people had plain furniture. They made it Themselves.
In many Houses, there was only one chair. It belonged to the Father.
Mothers and Fathers slept in a Jack-Bed. The jack-bed was short to save space
Babies slept in cradels near the Fire Place.

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8. Religion
The colonists went to church for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon
The church was called the meetinghouse
Babies were put in wooden cages to lie down
The children tried not to fall asleep or move around in the meetinghouse
If you fell asleep in the meetinghouse, you would get hit by the tithing-man
He carried a pole with a knob on one end and a feather on the other side
If someone whispered then there name was wrote down
Then they would have to pay a fine
What they learned depended on where they lived

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10. Colonial Clothes There was not a left shoe or right shoe
People gathered flowers and berries to make different colors for thread
Girls wore cloaks and hoods
Boys wore stockings and caps
There is a “pudding” around a baby’s middle to keep him/her from getting hurt
Women made the clothes
Men weaved the cloth
When boys and girls turned 6, they started wearing clothes like their parents

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12. Schools Boys went to school two times in one day
Girls only learned reading and writing
Instead of going to school girls took care of their home
Boys had to pay the school master food
For most boys school wasn’t comfortable. The benches were very hard and the school was often cold.
If kids did something wrong they would get harsh punishments
The schoolmaster was often payed corn
Boys wrote with a lump of lead

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