 Carrollwood Students
Live As The Pilgrims Lived
| Katya Wood, left, and Sofia
Kaminsky, both 5, "harvest" their crops at Independent Day School.
The kids are learning about planting and harvesting the way
it would have been done by the pilgrims. |
CARROLLWOOD
- First they boarded the Mayflower. Then they had to learn to grow
vegetables, thatch roofs, fish and weave.
Kindergartners and preschoolers at Independent Day School spent
two weeks immersed in Pilgrim life as teachers sought to put history
into a context today's children could understand.
The group capped their project last week with a Thanksgiving feast
of deli turkey rolled into tubes, mashed potatoes, vegetable soup
and juice boxes.
A tradition at the private school, the "Living Thanksgiving"
starts in classrooms with discussions about who the Pilgrims were
and why they came to the United States. Children wove placemats
with construction paper strips and made hats and collars to wear
as Pilgrims.
"It's helping them live in it and really understand what it
was like so many years ago," said teacher Lauren Bronson.
Courtney Cairns Pasto
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