Jamestown

We went on a field trip to Jamestown last Friday. We got to see the ships, the fort, and the Indian village. We went because we were studying Jamestown in history.



I took this picture of the outside of the hull of the Susan Constant. We also went on the Susan Constant. We saw tight beds, the captain's room, and canons down below, but we didn't see any chamber pots.



I took this picture also. It is part of the ropes of the Susan Constant. I took a picture of the ropes because I thought that they looked pretty cool.



This is a picture of me scraping out a canoe. The Indians burned out the middle of burned down trees (they burned them down instead of chopping them down) to make canoes. They burned out the middle so that it would be softer to scrape out with shells.



My mom, my sister, and I made a diorama of Jamestown and this is it here. The little people up on the corner of the fort are me and my sister. Mom cut us out of a photo of Jamestown when we were trying on armor at the fort and made the figurines. The thing in the other corner is a wigwam (an Indian house). We made a little felt baby to put in the house on the bed made of little felt pelts. The two people in the Indian part are his parents. The dad's sleeve got torn off in a fight with a bear. Then he hunted down the bear and got his pelt which you can see by the wigwam. Beside the wigwam, there is a little pelt stretcher. In the front of the wigwam, there is a canoe being burned out. We put a little bit of mud at the end to keep it from burning all the way. We made corn by sticking toothpicks in black Play-Doh and then put paper corn and leaves on with glue. The ships in the back are the ships that I drew of the Susan Constant and the tip to the Godspeed.

The diorama was fun to make and the trip to Jamestown was too.