Life as a colonist was hard

Life As A
Colonist
was Hard!

By: Cormac Laster

Table of Contents

1. Colonial America
2. Life In A Colonial Town
3. Life As A Colonist
4. A Settlers Home
5. Mmm...Mmm...Mmm
6. Colonial apple pancake recipe

7.A Colonists Clothes
8.Life As A Colonialist Child
9.A Child's Day At School
10. Time To Play!
11. Long Way To Walk
12. Colonies are over!

Colonial America

A colony is a place owned by another country. The 13 colonies in America were
owned by England and ruled by King George .

Beginning about four hundred years ago Europeans started to come to America, to
start colonies. Colonists met Americans that they traded with.They learned from each
other and exchange ideas about homes, clothing, and customs. Colonial America was very
hard and not fun sometimes, slaves were forced to work and get whipped when not
listening.

Colonists came from
ship.

Thirteen Colonies

In colonial times slaves were
very common to see working all
over the town. Even though
colonies had colonists working,
they still couldn't get the work
done.

Lyrics included

Life In A Colonial Town

Life is hard in a colonial town, people have jobs to do and responsibilities.
People have to work to get there jobs done, and it’s hard because streets are narrow
and unpaved, with cracks all over, also roads are made of dirt. Many buildings are
made of brick with lots of cracks so it’s very cold.

Only a few buildings are large, but still have lots of cracks. People who just
come to america have to live in taverns. Taverns are places with dining areas,
meeting areas, and sleeping rooms. The governor is the leader of the colony. People
did not have garbage trucks, so they through the garbage on the street for people to

pick up. Animals lived in homes with colonists too.

Fast fact: Colonists did not Governor's
have a lot of room in their house
town.

Pay close attention to the
book. You are able to here about
life back then in a colonial town.

Life As A Colonist

Life was hard in Colonial Times,people had jobs. Women had to work inside for the
whole day,there jobs were mostly cleaning. They had to cook and prepare food,do
laundry, knitted, worked in gardens, hauled heavy pails of water, and made candles
and soap. Young girls worked and did laundry, prepared food,knitted,and made candles.

Men worked long hours outside and put a lot of sweat into it. They did things
like clearing land, planted crops, cut trees, built homes and barns, tended animals,
put up fences, and worked at trades. Young boys also worked long hours outside,
tended animals, fed animals, chopped wood, and mended fences. Colonial work was hard
and not fun but there work had to get done.

Fast fact: Colonists did not
have a lot of room in there
town.

A Settlers Home

Colonial homes have lots of cracks and no windows,usually the first design was
20 by 20 feet. Doors were very small in the house and the door was two parts so
animals could come in to the house and lay down to rest. The only light in the house
was either a fireplace that they cook with and get light from or a candle, finally a
betty oil lamp is another light they would use.

In some colonies wealthy people had big homes,the people who have big homes
usually have small buildings called dependencies. Also big homes are either for
wealthy people, the governor, or plantation homes. Plantation homes are homes with
gardens or a lot of plantation. People mostly saw these in the southern colonies
where it is hot most of the year.

Colonial Homes Todays Homes
● Rooms
● One room ● Separate kitchen
● Small kitchen ● Separate rooms
● Small homes ● Larger homes

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Colonial Plantation home Big plantation
homes had
smaller homes
called
dependencies
behind them.

Mmm...Mmm... You had to pay for tea
back then.
If you have ever heard of Colonial
Times you might be wondering some of the
food they eat or make. Well you might be
surprised after you hear this. People in
the colonial village all have different
tastes and preferences,like some people
have cornmeal mush with syrup for
breakfast, or some people have eggs,and
some people don’t even have breakfast.
Breakfast in a colonial times is very
different from today, and you would not
like cornmeal mush for breakfast and
dinner!

How people got the food was from
hunting deer,rabbit,and even squirrel!
Kids helped get food to they would fish
and pull clams and oysters, and when they

got older they also started to hunt.

Colonial Recipe Apple Pancakes

Ingredients

● STEP:1 1/2 cups {360g} chopped
apples
● Place all ingredients in a bowl, except apples
1/2 cup {120g} flour
● STEP:2 1/4 cup {60g} sugar

● Stir the ingredients together until you have a smooth mixture 2 eggs
3 teaspoons milk
● STEP:3

● Stir the chopped apples

● STEP 4:

● pour the mixture onto a skillet and cook over a medium

temperature

● STEP:5

● When the bottom is brown flip it over and brown the other

side,and serve it hot ADULT

SUPERVISION 1/2 cup {120g}

NEEDED margarine or butter, melted

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 pinch of salt

A colonists clothes

Goodmaro fellow townspeople,how do you fare today? I am Thomas, keep your nose to the
grindstone for today. Were going to learn some of the clothes we have here in the colonial
village. Many people have all different styles. Some wealthy families wear clothes like
gowns or suits made from silk, or velvet. Womens clothes had many layers, if you counted
the layers, some wealthy people had nine sweaty and not comfortable layers.

Other people in my town are farmers,servants,and house wives, they don’t have a lot
of money and wear comfortable clothes. People who wear those clothes don’t get a lot of
attention and money. Women wear mob cap. Mob caps are a hat that goes on there head to
cover their head from dirt, dust, and powder.

Life As A Colonialist Child

Good morrow, my name is James. In my town being a colonial child isn’t fun. Over
all it’s so hard to be a colonial child. Here it’s hard because we have to work a
lot, and we don’t get a lot of time to play. On Sundays we have to go to church for a
pretty long time. In the morning people came for two hours,and then when it got
evening time they had to go again for two hours. Everyone had to come, the day was
called lord's day, babies even had to go they stayed in little wooden cages where
they would lay,they were like little playpens for them.

School

Good maro,my name is James post-hast come with me to my school, i hope Ellan
didn’t forget her new england primer our lesson books are so important. Last time she
had a hard whipping! Last week Henry forgot to bring a log for the fire he must had
be freezing in the corner. Huzzah I can see the school house, in school we have one
room in the WHOLE school, and i’m only in first grade but in our school it’s
kindergarten through fifth!

I post-haste need to go, good day!

Fast Fact: School in
winter was very
cold,kids had to
bring a piece of
wood to keep the
fire going.

Have fun watching a
colonial school.

Time To Play

Colonial games v.s today's games

In a colonial village ● Whirligigs ● tag
they did not have a lot of ● marbles ● hide + seek
time to play, when they did ● hoops ● hulahoop
they played marbles, ● quotes ● kickball
whirligigs, hoops, and ● baseball
quotes. ● football
● soccer
Fast Fact: Native ● basketball
Americans played ● lacrosse
games too. They ● ground shark
mostly played with ● lava queen
balls.There favorite
games was
lacrosse.

Long Way To Walk

Here in colonial times many people did not have a lot of ways to
travel. Learn bellow of some of the ways they would travel.

Colonial travel Todays travel

● foot ● Foot
● horse ● car
● boat ● Bus
● stagecoach ● Train
● Bike
● Air plane

Colonies are over!

Since the first people came to america more
people heard and wanted to come, soon later more
people were there and life was improving. Towns
and populations were growing. Food was very
plentiful because from Fishermen, farmers, and
hunters.

But the colonies wanted to be free country.
In late 1700s colonists started a continental
congress, colonists who were leaders came to
discuss conversation other colonists were
having. In 1775 the colonists started the
revolutionary war started. Guns shot! Many
England and Colonial people died. In 1776
colonial people gained INDEPENDENCE!!!!!!!
England left america and the colonists made the
U.S.A. !!!!!!!

Fast Fact: Colonists
drank a lot of tea
to show that they
are british.

Glossary

Colonists- A settler from a different country
Dependencies- A small building behind large homes
Wealthy people- People who have a lot of money and a rich family
betty oil lamp- A metal piece that is on the wall that gives light and warmth
Good maro- Good morning in colonial language
Post-haste- Quickly in colonial language
Whirligigs- Colonial toys that kids played when bored

Bibliology

Classroom, Capstone. WHAT IF YOU LIVED IN COLONIAL AMERICA? CAPSTONE CLASSROOM, 2013.
Isaacs, Sally Senzell. Life in a Colonial Town. Heinemann Library, 2001.
Kalman, Bobbie. A Visual Dictionary of a Colonial Community. Crabtree Pub. Co., 2008.