Dish Gardens

   I will be posting and essay on my journey in learning to make Dish gardens along  with pictures of my finished 4-H project this evening. Please come back and visit my site to see my creation.

Many thanks, Christine Blue

Spring break in Colional Williamsburg

This is a cool old carriage in C.W (Colonial Williamsburg)

you can pay to ride around town to all of the shops and sites and

I think my favorite stop is the candy shop !!!!

This is an actor reading a statement that declares that the 13

colonies were going to war with Britain to win their freedom from

Britain .This war was called the Revolutionary war. 

This gentlemen was standing over everyone keeping watch

of the people while they were being informed of the upcoming

Revolution. 

Here are some fifers and drummers marching down

Duke of Glouster street.  

In the front is my cousin Spencer

Here are all of the fifers and drummers together.

Here is my cousin again I think he is really, really good at the
the fife.

Hey there's me  on the right !!!!!

Hey there's me again I'm in the middle on the sides are my

2 cousins Jordan (left) and May-May (right) and in the back is

my other cousin Pike (it's his nickname his real name is Michael).

 

I accessed this information from    http://www.fifeanddrum.army.mil/kids_fife_drum.html about how Fifes, drums and bugles were used in the Revolutionary war.

 

Fife, Drum, and Bugle During the Revolutionary War

   During the Revolutionary War, armies didn’t have radios to talk to each other with. Music was the main way for them to communicate over long distances. It is widely recognized that the use of the fife and drum came from the armies of Switzerland, hundreds of years before America was discovered by Europeans. The fife was used because of its high pitched sound and the drum because of its low pitched sound. Both instruments can be heard from great distances and even through the sounds of a battlefield. Fifers and drummers would provide the music for all of the things that soldiers would need to do throughout the day. They would play tunes in the camp, on the battlefield, or for a march.

   Most of the musicians would have been boys that were too young to fight in the war but were following their fathers who were fighting. Other musicians could have been men who were too old to fight. This meant that males that were younger than 16 or older than 50 could serve as musicians in the army. To help the young musicians, Drum and Fife Majors would have been musically talented soldiers who instructed the young musicians.

   On the battlefield, musicians had the responsibility of helping keep order in battle and make sure the soldiers functioned well as a unit. Drummers would play beatings telling the soldiers to turn right or left as well as to load and fire their muskets. There was a tune called Cease Fire that fifers and drummers would play to tell the soldiers to stop firing at the end of a battle while a tune called Parley was used to signal to the enemy that a surrender or peace talk was desired.
   In the camp, fifers and drummers were used to help regulate the working day. Every task that needed to be carried out would be signaled by a fife and a drum. Tunes were used to tell the soldiers to wake up, eat meals, and perform camp chores. Music was provided for ceremonies that were used to start and end the working day. Whenever a command needed to be spread throughout the army, whether it be in the camp or on a battlefield, a fifer and drummer would play the tune, and other fifers and drummers would start playing the same tune, until the whole army knew what they needed to do.

    For a march, tunes were played while armies marched through towns to show the people that the armies were in high spirits. During a long march, music could have been provided, but musicians would also just carry their instruments to save their energy and make sure that they did not alert the enemy that they were close by.

    During the Revolutionary War, bugles were also used as method of communication. It was too difficult for a Soldier on horseback to play a fife because it required two hands. Soldiers found that a bugle could be played with one hand while using the other to ride the horse. Soldiers on horseback were called cavalry units. The bugle was also an instrument that was loud and could be heard clearly in battle.

 

   Trying to outfit each soldier with the same uniform was a hard task at the beginning of the war. States that assembled men to fight may have just worn what they had available until the colonies got the money and materials to get uniforms to all soldiers. Once this happened, musicians would wear the opposite colored coat that a fighting soldier would wear. If a continental soldier fighting in the war had a blue coat with red cuffs, a musician would wear a red coat with blue cuffs. They did this so that they could be easily found by a commanding officer and on the battlefield, it told the enemy that they were not carrying any weapons and were not a threat.

    Life during the Revolutionary War was extremely hard for soldiers and musicians. We want to make sure that people today do not forget the efforts and sacrifices that these brave patriots made hundreds of years ago that lead to our freedom as a nation!

 

My field trip to Fort McHenry in Baltimore Maryland

I took this video of Old Glory

1. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War quick forts were constructed like Fort Whetstone (now where Fort McHenry stands) were constructed along the coast line to protect the colonies.

 

 

2. In 1794 the United States of America authorized the building of stronger, permanent forts (like Fort McHenry)along the coast for protection

 

3. In 1798 construction on Fort McHenry began they finished in 1803

 

 

4. On June 18th 1812 the U.S declared war on Britain to preserve free trade and sailors rights

 

5. August 1814 Britain attacked  Washington, defeated U.S forces and burned the capital

 

6. On September 13th through the 14th of 1814  Britain attacked Fort McHenry. During the Victory of winning the battle Francis Scott Key (the author of the star spangled banner) Wrote down a few lines  http://famousliteraryworks.com/key_star_spnagled_banner.htm(look here to see)

 

to see more look here  http://www.nps.gov/fomc/historyculture/history-of-fort-mchenry.htm

 

 Thanks for looking,

      Christine Blue :)

  

Creative Ways To Make an Animal Hospital

My Grand-ma  made this blanket and pillow case and
 I got the plastic bin at the dollar Store
and found some old cloth
scraps and made an animal hospital.

POOR Bunny Pickles

Here I found some duck tape and old broken Pens
and made crutches for my bunny Pickles

Here is some old scrap cloth made into a sling

( in the background is Pickles best friend Tito the Chi Wawa)



Again some old scrap cloth for a leg cast




Thanks,
Through my Eyes