October 6 Building Forts

In class we talked about lots of forts in US history. We focused on Jamestown Fort. We talked about why, where, and how to build a fort.
We watched part of a video about early American colonies, and the Colonial Triangle (Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown).
Then the kids got a chance to build their own forts. When they were finished they had to tell us what kind of environment their fort was in, and what the purpose was.