My Book AboutColonial Life in New England

By Cassidy Krabel

My name is Bridget Sanders. I am 10 years old and live in New England. I have long brown hair and gray eyes . I am 5 feet 2 inches tall. I like to play with my friends and my family . I love to play many games like soccer and many other games.

My parents names are Elizabeth and William Sanders . My sisters names are Alice ,Molly ,and Jack Sanders.

Alice is 7 years old, Molly is 5 years old , and Grace is 3 years old That is my family. Here is a picture of my family to show you what they look like.

Next I am going to describe to you about my home and what

it looks like . I live in a little house called a long house or even a cabin maybe. Many of my neighbor friends live in the

same kind of home I love to listen to the song birds in the

morning when I wake up because they sing very softly.

When I wake up every morning I always have my silk sleeping gown. When I get ready for

school everyday I get my puffy skirt then have my mother tie it on. Then I tuck my shirt into my skirt so that it looks like a dress.

Next I am going to tell you about my fathers work and how he does do his work. My dad works around the farm

feeds the cattle ,cleans the barn ,feeds the horses ,plows the fields ,plants the crops ,and feeds the hogs. That is what

my father does for a living.

Now I am going to talk about what my mother does for a living. My mother works around the house. She cleans up after we eat dinner and sometimes gets help, she cleans dishes every morning after breakfast ,she makes her bed every morning when she gets out of bed , and she cooks and helps us kids with our school work . So that is what my mother does for a living .

Now I am going to talk about my chores and what I do around the house. I usually help mother clean and cook but many other things are my responsibility to just like I have too watch Alice ,Molly ,and Grace ,also I have to feed the chickens ,and I have to help sew our clothes so we have clothes . I love helping around the house and I love doing many other things to.

My friends and I always play games outside of our homes we play many ball games and others we are very good at playing many games.

Every morning when we get up mother always has breakfast ready for us. We usually have oatmeal or maybe something that we could enjoy . For lunch we eat succotash and maybe sweet potatoes and many other things. For snacks we always have healthy food from the garden like cucumbers or maybe even sliced tomatoes. For dinner mother always cooks a big dinner with turkey and many other types of food. That is what I eat every day.

Everyday I get up then I have too get ready for school . Every morning I have to get up and go to school my

teachers name is Mrs. Allis she is a very nice teacher . When I go to school I always sit by my friends because

they are very nice and I have known them for a very long time. The supplies I use for school is I use a feather with ink and I use a special piece of paper to write. Here is a picture to show you what my school house looks like.

When my sisters do something bad or mouth off to our parents they usually spank us with a paddle. Here is a picture too show you what they paddle us with.

Many people get sick around here in New England. We always care for the people who get sick . We give them medicine and make them their food . Here is a picture to show you the medicines that we used for the sick people.

Every Sunday morning I go to church . Mostly churches are big and many people go to church but I go to a very small church and not very many people go to my church. Most of the people who go to my church are the people who live in my neighborhood and some people who aren't in my neighborhood. My mother told me that no matter how many people go to church we would always go . Here is a picture to show you what my church kind of looks like.

If a colonial child brakes a colonial law they get punished in a very bad way they get taken out to a barn and they get paddled with a big paddle . Many children would get punished not only with a paddle but they would have to help around the farm if they were women they wouldn’t only work around the house they would also work with the boys and there fathers and many other people . I would never brake a colonial law . Here is a picture to show you what they would get punished with.

Next I am going to tell you how our mother helps us with our work . Our mother always helps us when we want to sew she also says that we to put the needle up and down . Here is a picture to show you what we sew with.

When my family has to go somewhere we use a carriage. We have to use horses too make the carriage move. We always put our suite cases in the carriage so if we don’t get home at the right time . Here is a picture of our carriage to let you see what it looks like.

My mother always has us help her cook so that we know how to but Jack works with our father on the farm. Mother always tells us that we have to make our food perfect . I usually make our soup or butter the bread . My mother always says that I am a very god cook for being a 10 year old colonial girl . When I cook I make sure that the food is perfect for the family to eat. I love to cook with my mother here is a picture to show me cooking with my mother.