Paul Revere and The Sons of Liberty

For the younger children, our study of the American Revolution will be focusing on famous patriots. This past week we turned our attention to Paul Revere.

Books we read:








A copy of "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for the children to keep in their logbooks:


The class working on a moving picture of Paul Revere:




Paul Revere gallops across the bridge on his way to tell the colonists that the British Regulars are coming:






The entire elementary school watched the Disney movie, Johnny Tremain, in which Paul Revere is an important character and "the Boston tea party" is a major event.




The older children finished up their study of the "Boston tea party"



and began working on a play.



During our lunch-time reading this week, we all learned what people ate during the American Revolution, by listening to the following books:





As a special treat, Friday morning, the whole elementary had a tea party. The teachers made tea, while the children shook a jar of heavy whipping cream until it became fresh butter for bread and butter. Butter making is a great way to harness all that "kid energy".





There are many ways to keep a mason jar full of cream moving until it becomes butter: