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Pilmoth was a lot different than I expected. It felt so short, but I guess that was because it was so much fun. We played games that the Pilgrims played, we dressed up like the Pilgrims, we wrote with feathers, we even investigated Pilgrim’s houses to find out more about them, (they called it C.S.I. Plimoth.) Those were our evening activities.

During the day we went to the Wampanoag Home site, Plimoth rock, The Mayflower II, the town where the Pilgrims settled, and the 1620 Pilgrim Village.

The village felt like it was real because all the people that where there were dressed up and acted like they where Pilgrims. You could ask them questions too. The Wampanoag Home site was also full of people that where dressed as natives. That is one of the reasons that I thought that it was different than I expected because everyone and everything was so realalistic. I felt like I was in 1627!

The girls where divided into three room and slept in those rooms. They were the classrooms, where we did the evening activities. All the teachers had really cool pajamas. Mrs. Edinger had the coolest but Ms. Young’s were a cheetah jump suit.

We had dinner like the pilgrims would. Did you know that the Pilgrims did not use forks? We had carrots, pottage, pie and instead of beer which all the Pilgrims had including the children, we had apple cider.

I think that the trip was more fun than camp Sloane in third grade even thought camp Sloane was three days and Pilmoth was two days.

The whole fourth grade in the Dalton School is going to Plymouth Plantation for one night. We are going next week so everybody is very excited about it.
The pilgrims where people that came to America for religious purposes. Plymouth Plantation is recreating where the Pilgrims settled in Cape Cod.
Last year when I was in third grade we went to Camp Sloane for three days. That was the first over night trip in school. Even though at Camp Sloane and Plymouth Plantation we are going to sleep over I think that it will be very different. The biggest reason is that Camp Sloane was a camp and at Plymouth Plantation we are going to learn. I am very excited about this trip!!!

I am a student in Edinger House in the fourth grade. Dalton, my school is in New York City. This Year (2006-2007) we as a class are studying forced immigration but mostly slavery.
Forced immigration is when people have to move out of the place where they live and go to a different place or a different country because they were being taken by other people. For instance slavery is one kind of forced immigration. Sometimes little kids are slaves. It is really sad. The Amistad was a slave ship and the slaves where on the boat took over the ship. We learned a lot about that important ship.
One of the projects that we did was we wrote poems about people that were on the Amistad with the help of a poet named Natasha Tretheway.
We also read my teacher, Monica Edinger’s, book. It is about a girl name Sara Margru Kinson and she was on the Amistad and got to go home. The book is called Africa is My Home. After we read each chapter we wrote about it in a little book, like literary examples, historical facts, comments and our responses. I thought that it was really cool because I had never read a book that was still in the process of being written. We also read books like Amistad Rising, Esperanza Rising, and The Village that Vanished and lots of other picture and chapter books.
One of my classmates brought in stuff from Mali, where his father is from. Mrs. Edinger also brought in thing from Sierra Leone where she lived for two years. They both brought in colorful robes, carved bowls, carved statues and lots of other cool objects.
I think that it is incredibly sad that people were being treated that way and that people had to go through all of those tough times. I think that we did this project because it is a very important historical event and it is exiting and sad to learn about. I learned about slavery, and about all these people that were slaves. I am very glad that we did this project.