As part of their social studies unit on colonial life, Yavneh Academy fifth graders stepped back in time to experience what it was like to grow up in early America, when children as young as 10 years old began learning a trade. At the Colonial Fair, students became young apprentices, trying their hands at a variety of colonial professions. They practiced being scribes by writing with quill and ink on horn boards, crafted their own candles as chandlers, and even visited the blacksmith to engrave their names on metal necklaces. Students ground corn like millers and churned butter like colonial farmers, gaining a hands-on understanding of what daily life was like in the 1700s. The day sparked meaningful reflections about the differences, and surprising similarities, between their lives today and those of children long ago.