5th Grade Colonial Village Blog

november 23, 2016

11/23/2016

Write about 5 interesting or amazing facts about your trade: These facts will make your character come to “life” during the Living History Museum!!! (the facts do not necessarily have to connect directly with your character) Don't forget to work on your costume & backdrop!

31 Comments

[Hazel] Taylor Borger

11/23/2016 10:09:30 am

Some interesting facts about my trade are:
1. Horse farriers were also referred to as blacksmiths
2. There were three types of steel we worked with cast iron, wrought iron, and steel . Cast iron was melted in a blast furnace at 1500 degrees.
3.Horses required trimming 6 to 8 weeks
4. This job is very physically demanding requiring strength.
5.Horse farriers needed to check the impact, support, breakover and flight. They all showed how the horse balanced on it feet.

Caroline

11/23/2016 08:19:14 pm

Do you have to wear gloves or special clothes when you work so the hot air in the furnace does'nt give you a burn? Do you like horses? I'm guessing you do because you work with them.

Gideon Noble

11/27/2016 02:44:01 pm

How long did it take for you to learn how to be a blacksmith?

Emma (Leah)

11/23/2016 02:32:01 pm

Here are some fact on Butter Churning:

https://butterchurning.wordpress.com/history-of-butter-churning/:

1) Most butter to use for the entire year was churned in summer when grass was growing and plentiful for the cows to eat. This allowed for more milk production. The weather was also favorable as cream should be churned around 60 to 80 degrees.

2) Before refrigeration butter was kept in sealed jars. The jars were tied together and placed in a spring, river, or well to keep it cool until the weather chilled.

3) Women were often judged by their butter. If a man complimented a woman’s butter then it showed that he favored her.

4) Selling butter was often a women’s only source of income. Sutlers followed the Union Army, but did not follow the Confederate Army, selling luxuries like butter to the soldiers. Butter was not part of the rations.

http://www.oldandinteresting.com/history-butter-churns.aspx;

5) There were traditional butter churning songs sung as the butter was being churned. Here is one of them:
Come butter come
Come butter come
Peter stands at the gate
Waiting for a buttered cake
(Traditional churning song)

Caroline

11/23/2016 08:14:47 pm

It's cool that there were traditional songs they sang!
What's your favorite?

Marie (Monica)

11/30/2016 04:18:16 pm

Sometimes men do not appreciate women as much as women appreciate men.

Sarah

11/23/2016 03:02:53 pm

Here are my 5 interesting facts about Tailors:

1) Tailors were almost always men, but they made clothing for men and women.

2) The word “tailoring” means “the art of cutting” in a lot of languages.

3) Tailors generally did not carry or sell fabric or clothing that was already made. Their customers would buy fabric elsewhere (usually from a milliner) and bring it to the tailor for the clothing to be custom made.

4) Most of the money was made from making men’s pants (breeches) and coats.

5) Sewing a woman’s gown (mantua making) was very difficult and eventually became its own trade. Tailors sewed flat fabric, but mantua making needed folds and pleats to make the gowns.

http://www.history.org/almanack/life/trades/tradetai.cfm

http://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/jobs_occupations.php

Caroline

11/23/2016 08:22:52 pm

What's the hardest thing to sew? It seems like most of the money would be from making gowns not from men's pants! Do you sew woman's gowns? It must be really fun!

Emma

11/29/2016 05:32:34 pm

Being a tailor sounds kind of fun. What do you like most about it? Do you make most of your own clothes? I was wondering if we could do a trade. I really need a new dress to wear for a special dinner I am going to. I don't have much money, so, I was wondering if I could tutor you in exchange. I am guessing since you spend so much time on your trade, you probably don't have time to educate yourself/ go to school. Reply back as soon as you can because the dinner is in a few weeks. If you can't finish it fast enough, you can maybe work off of my old dress and maybe add some new fabric to it. Thanks. -Charity Adams

Marie (Monica)

11/23/2016 03:33:08 pm

This is 5 interesting facts about my trade.
1. Most colonial bakers do not have bakeries so they have to bake at home.
2. Basically everything colonial bakers make by hand. (such as aprons)
3. Colonial bakers learned how to get environmental flavorings by local tribes.
4. Since there were no mechanical ovens, the bakers used brick or clay ovens that are also called beehives.
5. The main ingredients the colonial bakers used were salt, flour, water, and sometimes sugar.

Caroline

11/23/2016 08:06:23 pm

Do you like baking at home Marie?

Rose

11/29/2016 04:11:49 pm

Would you prefer baking at home or at the baking shop?

Emma

11/23/2016 07:29:10 pm

5 Interesting Facts Abut Schoolmasters And Their Trade

1. Manly men do our trade unless women are educated and not married.

2. We do not have any other books, other than The New England Primer and The Bible.

3. We do not earn very much money while doing our trade and in some cases we teach to barter for items that we need.

4. Sometimes men stay at families houses and tutor kids in exchange for food and shelter ( at the houses that they tutor at).

5. We teach many ages of kids at once, which means many different levels of learning.

Caroline

11/23/2016 08:04:55 pm

It sounds difficult to teach so many ages at once!

Justin

11/30/2016 08:22:29 pm

Is it hard to teach all the kids at once?

Caroline (Ella)

11/23/2016 07:57:37 pm

Facts about carpentry...

1. Since carpenters don't have sand paper they use pumice which is ground rock or sand to sand wood.

2. To be a carpenter you have to be an apprentice for several years.

3. When your a carpenter you have to learn all the different types of wood.

4. To make a bench, chair or table without it being uneven you have to have excellent math skills!

5. Carpenters don't carve fancy designs but they could if they wanted to.

Carpenters were very important in the colonial days! I think it's because a lot of people needed beds, homes and other things made.

Sarah

11/29/2016 07:51:50 pm

That's really cool Caroline I never knew that about Carpenters before.
Sincerely,
Sarah Johnson

Cyrus Rushmore

11/26/2016 06:10:16 pm

5 facts about pastors

1. In england christians were banded and executed
2. pastors came to the 13 colonial to spred the word of God
3.As a pastor you have to learn about other religions.
4.Pastors will believe and follow God even if it cost your life
5. They will help the unreached

Gideon Noble

11/27/2016 02:40:49 pm

Why were christians branded and executed in England?

Cyrus Rushmore

11/28/2016 08:29:35 pm

The queen only wanted people to be catholic

Ghynnis

11/29/2016 05:29:22 pm

#1 is sadly true

Gideon Noble

11/27/2016 02:38:41 pm

1-The name Cooper came from the latin word 'coop' that means 'contain'.
2-There are 3 types of coopering. White, wet and dry coopering. White barrels were made from wood that didn't poison milk, cream or butterchurns.
3-Most of coopers made one container at a time since they were paid for each barrel as it was finished.
4-All work was done visually (no patterns, calculations or instructions)> That's why it took 7 years as an apprectice to learn to make casks by memory and skill.
5-Most coopers would work on site for a specific industry(like a brewery) and were constantly making casks so that they would be right on site for quick use instead of making one barrel at a time at a different place and taking it to the brewry.

Rose

11/29/2016 04:19:21 pm

I had no idea about number 2.

Ghynnis (Joseph)

11/27/2016 03:49:15 pm

5 fact about my life as a candle maker.
1 I scrape animal fat into a big pot and then melt it. This is called rendering tallow.
2 I melt honeycomb into beeswax and add it to the tallow to make the candles.
3 80% of my job is scavenging for wax.
4 In some smaller towns each house makes their own candles. In a bigger town like ours each family has a specialty job and we trade with each other.
5 I sell or trade candles for all kinds of things. I trade for food, beer, medicine, plates and bowls. Everything I need to live---except candles!

Justin

11/27/2016 05:55:50 pm

Some facts about my trade are:

1 a cordwainer is a shoemaker an a cobbler repairs shoes
2 Shoe making was one of the most common trades in the colonies
3 The first shoemakers came from England in 1610
4 Competition between other shoemakers was fierce
5 in colonial times right and left shoes were the same

Emma (Leah)

11/29/2016 09:29:41 pm

I had no idea that left and right shoes were the same.

alice

11/29/2016 10:26:33 am

1.we make things for classroom
2.make trades
3.own shop
4.work with power tools
5.work with family

Rose

11/29/2016 04:18:10 pm

5 facts about my trade:

My barber shop was also a surgeons shop

Mostly Women preformed my trade.

Poor people needed to be a barber more needed than rich people.

In my trade I also did makeup and designs on faces.

The red and blue pole was made to catch peoples attention.

Blake Smith

11/30/2016 05:29:36 pm

1) I make sixty nails in an hour
2) It's hard to get the forge at just the right temperature!
3) The basic things I make are nails and scrolls
4) An apprentice is considered a blacksmith after three years
5) You'll know if the metal is too hot if it sparks

Marco

12/6/2016 07:08:16 pm

I my name is Colin and I'm a tin Smith I make things out of tin I am willing to trade any thing for any thing out of tin Blake I moved form England to new jersey because king George raise money for thins so that is why I moved to new jersey

Marco

12/7/2016 12:24:42 pm

1.Ican make 3 tin cups in 30 minutes
2.tin takes 10 minutes for one cups
3. Tin is so hot if you don't get gloves it burns your hands
4. You have to us tools to make things to form a object
5. To be a tin smith or is hard

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