Comments on: A peek in our homeschool: studying Jamestown

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:56:00 +0000

I love your post! We live close to Williamsburg and Jamestown. I can’t wait to study about the history of our area in depth when ds is older. That sampler is beautiful.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:22:00 +0000

Hey, Melissa! I’m glad you did. I just lost a bunch of links myself when I was trying to adjust my sidebar. So annoying. Now I have to go and look them all up and hope web searches work.

By: melissa

melissa — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:52:00 +0000

i found you! i could only find your homeschool blogger site because my homeschool blogroll thing seems to have disappeared off my site. i’m having so much trouble finding my friends lately.

anyway, enjoyed that post. we did a little early american history from october to december. now we are going back to the middle ages as scheduled. that was just a detour along the way. enjoy jamestown!

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:14:00 +0000

Thanks! I’ll check out the links and an internship at a colonial farm sounds fun. We have a “heritage farm” near here that is similar, but set up for pioneer days. It will be fun when we get to Lewis and Clark…our whole trip to my parents’ house is along the Lewis and Clark trail and there are so many memorial sites set up it isn’t even funny.

I’d love to visit all those old houses, Judy! If I ever get out to the East Coast again, I’ll have a hard time narrowing down what I want to do.

By: Faerie Rebecca

Faerie Rebecca — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:47:00 +0000

We did a local history block on the founding of the Jamestown colony earlier this year--lots of fun. And since we live in VA, we're very fortunate and can participate in some of the activities surrounding the 400th anniversary.

I share some of our work on my blog, but we still have more to do. Most importantly, we need to get sewing on Mara's 1771 costume for the apprentice program at the local colonial farm.

By: Judy Aron

Judy Aron — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:26:00 +0000

Very Cool - Since we live in CT - and are quite close to Boston (2 hours) we get up close and personal with colonial stuff - sometime to a point of being “stuck” in that time period.
But there’s lots of great websites that you can virtually visit places - Like Old Sturbridge Village, and Plimoth Plantation. We live very close to the Noah Webster House and we’ve been to other wonderful houses as part of the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society.
You should try your hand at some Colonial cooking too..