The JKHA second-grade class recently had an amazing field trip to the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison. The students had the opportunity to make marbles out of clay, much like the Colonial kids did. They reenacted all the chores that colonial children had to do to help out in their homes. The students gathered eggs for breakfast, milked cows, got water, used a yoke to carry heavy buckets, washed laundry, made butter and ironed clothes. It was the perfect culmination to their unit on colonial kids. It reinforced and supported all the learning they had done these past few months.
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