Monday, December 31, 2018

Colonial Trade Fair

I am so proud of my students!  They worked very hard over the past month to prepare for our Colonial Trade Fair.  It was a great success.  Here are some pictures of the trades-people in action!


What I liked about the colonial trade fair was to tell people about the glassmaker.  One thing I think I could improve on is to work on making more props. I did best at telling the customers where in my report things are.
Nara   


At the trade fair, I was proud of my props because they were very creative, I even used black licorice as leeches. I think that the best part about being a colonial apothecary would be pounding ingredients into medicine. ~~Gavin


I liked the colonial trade fair because a lot of people didn't know what a shipwright is so I told them about what the shipwright does and how the job works and they seemed very interested. I am very proud of my work because after they read my report they didn't have many questions about my trade. I am also proud of my model of my ship because I got a lot of comments on my ship for how cool it looked.      
Max M.


I am proud of my hard work.  My hard work was my brochure, all the facts I  found researching, and all the props I found. The customers asked a lot of the questions that I had put on my suggestion list which was to be expected, however there were some other questions.  The biggest ones that were not on the list being “who was the milliner” and “what was the best part about being the milliner” or some variation of those. I saw a lot of people there but there were no classes that came.  If I had to rate the colonial trade fair from a scale of 1-10, ten being the best I would choose a nine because there were a couple hiccups but it went really well.

-Madison R. ;):)


I thought being a brickmaker was kinda fun because I had to talk to a ton of people who were parents. I also think that the fourth graders should do this project when they are in fifth grade. I think if we ever do a project like this again we could have partners that are from our class.
Jessica



I liked the colonial trade fair because I got to tell people about what I learned about the peddler. I learned that the peddler also fixed stuff that broke. One thing I am proud of is how many customers I had. I had nine customers!  ~~Owen


I think that the colonial trade fair went pretty good although we did do a lot of rinse and repeat. Like when we had to keep going back and forth with the websites. One thing I did like is being able to tell people what I have done, and making all of props.
Drew

My customers asked a lot of questions, but the most asked question was “what are wigs made of?” A couple of the questions stumped me a little but one of those questions was “how long does it take to make wigs?” I was proud of myself because I worked so hard on making my two wigs:  a cotton ball and a paper wig. The teachers loved my cotton ball wig that I donated to the school. What I learned was that you have to have a fun intro to your stand to get more customers. I wish I could do it again because it was so fun.
Lia

I was proud that I knew every question that people asked me. The experience was weird because I have never done it before. It was hard because I got distracted a lot. Nicholas   


Sophia, the Hatter!




What I learned while presenting is colonial jobs are much different from today. One of my customers asked me what inspired me to be the doctor and I said just learning about it. It must have been hard to be a doctor in the colonial times because of everything you had to learn.
                                              Teagan



I think that the colonial trade fair was really fun and cool because we got to dress up as a colonial person and I was a colonial stonemason. My parents came to see my presentation and saw my friends at the colonial trade fair.  I loved the colonial trade fair it was so fun. THE END,
Lucas



The colonial trade fair was a good experience for me because it will help me know what to do in middle school. I think that the colonial trade fair because is important because you will do a lot of presentations in middle school. I  t was hard because there were a lot of people there and you would not stop talking. Reed


Charlotte, The Saddler




    I loved the colonial trade fair a lot. Sharing my work by presenting and kind of pretending that I was a colonist was lots of fun. I also liked being tested by the teachers to see how much I really know.  Having to make props and to create a costume to bring in was fun too. I am really proud of my work and really happy with it too. If I rated the colonial trade fair from 1-10 I would rate it a ten because it was so much fun.  Thank You to Ms. Rhoades and Mrs.Burke, my fifth-grade teachers!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)
Madison M.