Fourth-grade students in Ms. Bourke’s, Mrs. Callahan’s, and Mrs. Urmston’s classes at CES finished a social studies unit on the exploration and colonization of New York State, from the early explorers to the Dutch to the English.
They learned about what life was like over 300 years ago and celebrated by creating their own toys, like spinning tops and bilbo catchers, making foods like butter and ice cream by hand, and journal writing on paper that was stained with tea bags to make it look like it was from a colonial diary.
It was a great hands-on activity for the students while learning about our home state!