Hey! Over here! Hi, I am going to tell you what it is like to be a teacher in Colonial America. Oh, sorry! I forgot to tell you, my name is Jennifer Clare. Anyway, being a teacher in the 1700`s is very hard.

I teach kids how to read and how to write. Did you know that we only have two books in the classroom? The Bible and a primer. A primer has numbers, spelling words, poems, and the alphabet. Of course, I teach speech and that is pretty hard. I also teach sewing. In sewing the kids maker rugs, and mats. They make braided rugs too!

Every day I do something different. Well, kind of. On Wednesday morning I teach Mrs. Cory’s daughters. They are beautiful. Their names are Monica, Stephanie, and Rebecca. I also teach Mrs. Nelson's daughter, Courtney, and her son, James. James is 14 and Courtney is 13. They live in a big mansion.

When I teach school, kids bring lunch and eat lunch here. They sometimes have some cocoa, sweet potatoes, apples, green beans, peanut soup, and apple cider. They love it!

Our clothes in Colonial America are very different from yours. Some days, the girls wear beautiful dresses and hats. Kids here wear coats and hats, just like you do. The girls also wear aprons.

The kids` games are really different from yours now. At recess they play cat’s eyes, which is a marble game. They also play dominoes and dolls. The dolls are wooden dolls, not plastic.

The kids are very, very hard to teach because they are all in the same class, from kindergartners to older kids about 15 or 14 years old.

Well, that’s all! Bye. Oh, yeah, thank you for reading this. I hope you leaned all you want to know about me.

By Rachel, 4^th grade, Parkview Elementary School