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What surprised me about Plymoth is the activities. I thought we would sit and listen to a lot of Pilgrim history. But we actually did other things like play games and we also dressed up like Pilgrims and Pilgrim babies.

I expected great food and as I expected the food was amazing. We had turkey pottage, pear pie and cooked carrots.

We went to a Wampanoag homesite and the Mayflower 2 and we visited a Pilgrim village from 1627. It was really cool because we saw actors pretending to be Pilgrims who came on the Mayflower. Mayflower 2 was cool because we saw what the Mayflower looked like. Also on the Mayflower 2 we saw beds we saw the place where the captain steers and we saw some people on the ship also.

The fourth grade is going to Plymoth, Plymoth is an overnight trip  I am very excited.  Plymoth is in Capecod.I hope I see a model of the Mayflower the Mayflower is the ship the Pilgrims came on to American 1621. I also hope I see actors pretending to be the Pilgrims.  When I get back I am going to write a blogpost about how the trip was so keep reading my blog.

This year in Edinger house we studied forced immigration. We learned that it is not right to take people away from their home and make them be slaves because of their heritage and color.

We read our teacher’s book called Africa Is My Home. It was about Sarah Margru Kinson, a girl on the slave ship Amistad. The slaves on the ship killed the people who stole them and then the slaves went to jail. They had a trial in America and America won. Then they were free. I learned a lot about slavery and the African culture in the book.

A member of our class’s dad is from Mali, Africa so this person brought in lots of cool African dolls, clothes and jewelry. I thought it was very cool.

We also had a poet come in and perform some of her poems. Her name is Natasha Trethewey. We wrote poems about people on the Amistad and then we performed them for Natasha. “Amistad in Spanish means friendship but that is just a saying because the ship is not friendly at all,” says one of my classmates.