THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 7, 1995 TAG: 9505050192
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 26 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
A bearded Kyle Polak, 10, pays close attention to his teacher during
a session on quilt making. Reena Ellis, 10, left, and Denise
Callaway, 10, enjoy a string game of ``cat-in-the-cradle.''
Richard Achor, 10, and his group make paper totems using ancient
Indian signs.
The fourth-graders of Woodstock Elementary School are concluding a
study of the founding and settling of the state of Virginia and the
surrounding Native Americans. They recently went to Jamestown and
Yorktown for a visual interpretation of all they learned. On May 3,
the students were immersed in Colonial life. Throughout the time
period, students dressed in Colonial costume, rotating among their
classrooms in which they experienced life in Colonial Virginia.
Their many activities included crafts such as Indian beading, totem
poles, Colonial quilting and calligraphy with quill pens. They also
ate a lunch of fried chicken, succotash, corn bread and apple juice.
The students played Colonial games such as an egg race, three-legged
race and hoop race.
by CNB