A Day in the Life of a Pioneer Kid

As a final assignment for our Pioneer Unit, I asked the boys and girls to imagine that they are a pioneer child. They were to spend a few minutes imagining what a day would be like back in time. They then wrote a recount (journal type entry) from a pioneer child's perspective. The kids loved this activity. I have never seen us all so keen to write! Everyone is doing a great job of demonstrating their learning from the unit and making wonderful connections. I am thinking that this will have to be collated into one of our class-famous books!

Games from long ago

What...no T.V., no iPod and not even a video game?!?! These were many of our thoughts this afternoon during social studies. We had a great lesson on the games that pioneer children played. We learned that with a combination of a great imagination and a few simple objects, pioneer children were able to have many hours of fun! We even tested out a few of their games today like charades, 20 questions, cup and ball, spelling bee and my favourite - "buzz."
Boys and girls... why not teaching mom and dad your favourite one?