When we got here, we spent time seeing where Georgia was in respect to Alabama. We also looked at the other states again. Then , we went to play in the water area where Megan's imagination let loose. We fished for fish. We played with puppets, having an owl chase mice, a peacock complain that we were taking her eggs. The peacock chased the mice whom started taking her eggs. We played making cake. We played in the room where you take balls up by basket and shoot them down into a bucket.
When we were done with that, we did a bit of reading charts on Alabama in the 1850s. We read which jobs males had the most back then. I will ask megan what she remembers, but I remember 66, 600 farmers, over 2000 merchants and laborers, and only two chemists. We also learned there was popular fish was catfish and that they relied heavily on forest products. We learned that dairy products were among their top commodity. They also produced a lot of sweet potatoes. Alabama is also known , of course, for its cotton.
We also discussed the flat boat, the keel boat and the steam ship. We went on a keel boat and examined pellets. We had to guess at what they were , but we were right to probably beaver and raccoons. They had tools for hunting beavers and muskrats.
Megan also learned how they debated about where to put the first Alabama capital. It ended up being in Cahawba, Alabama. Then it moved to Tuscaloosa, and finally to Montgomery, where it is today.
Megan finally did some game where she guesses, by putting her hand in a box, what is in that box. That was in an event about Helen Keller . We then played in a multi-tiered wooden doll house.
They have a wall of presidents and we studied them .
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