Thursday, February 12, 2009

Battle, Plague and Fire in London

Well, back to the British Isles. During the 1600's in England King Charles 1 made a mess of things causing a civil war, precipitating the Commonweath, and had to deal with a year of plague and then a fire that destroyed 4/5 of London. We chose to burn down London for our project.First we built London's crowded streets.
We identified the starting point, The bakery at Pudding Lane.So that is where we started the Great Fire.It started out slow, as did the real Great Fire. The Lord Mayor went to take a look and said, A woman could put that out!Then it began to spread from one row of houses to another!Within hours/minutes the city was in flamesIt took 3 days/minutes to put out the fire.When it was all over 4/5 of the city was in ashes!





























Thursday, February 5, 2009

So I accidentally found this great website that helps people connect with each other in the way of trading stuff from other cultures/countries. I think this would be a great thing to do to get to know other cultures. We are in California and would be willing to trade food, magazines, items of clothing, toys, seashells, anything you might want just let us know and we will try to get it.  Jan Lance