This week Sophie and Lily are visiting Grandpa Mike and Grandma Linda in Mystic, CT. But school continues! Posts will be "off" this week but Sophie continues to work hard and we will post as we can and then catch up next week!
The first day we spent at the Mystic Seaport Village, where we learned "hands on" about sailing vessels. Although most of the exhibits and ships at the village are from the 18th and 19th century, we still got a good idea about sailing ships and Sophie was able to make a lot of connections to her learning about the Age of Sail and Discovery.
She got to see and experiment with a sextant and an astrolabe. She was able to explore all levels of an 18th c. whaling ship that the Seaport Village is restoring, which was very cool. Grandpa Mike came with us and explained nautical terms and references to current naval life and ships.
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
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| Mystic Seaport Village |
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| Rope-making |
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| Map-making |
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Keel  |
1. Nautical: Of or pertaining to sailors, ship, and navigation.
2. Celestial : Pertaining to the sky and stars.
3. Dead reckoning: To deduce speed and direction.
4. Shipwright : A person who builds and launches wooden vessels
5. Chronometer: A device to keep exact time used on ships.
5 Details/Facts
1. A schooner is much smaller than a Carrack.
2. A smaller ship with one mast is called a sloop.
3. The oldest remaining whaling ship in America is The Charles W. Morgan.
4. We went on The Charles W. Morgan.
5. The bathroom on a ship is called a head.
5 Sentences
1. I learned a lot of nautical terms.
2. Lots of people celestial navigate using the stars or sun.
3. Dead Reckoning on a ship means to make an educated guess to determine speed and direction.
4. Shipwright's cut and fashion wood for ships.
5. We saw lots of chronometers today at the nautical instruments store.
5 Questions & Answers
1. Why can't you use a grandfather clock on a ship? A: The pengalem will rock to much.
2. What is the term used on ships for ropes? A: lines.
3. What do you do when you mop the deck of a ship? A: Swab the deck.
4. How do you guess your speed and direction on a ship? A: Dead reckoning.
5. Name three nautical instruments. A: Astrolabe, Chronometer, and a compass.
Sophie's Blog Day Thirteen: Where did we visit today? What kinds of ships did you see & visit? What did Grandpa teach you about being a sailor on a ship?
Today we visited the Mystic Seaport. There we saw lots of cool ships. We also went on a road trip to Conneticut to visit Grandma and Grandpa. We saw schooners, and sloops, and Carracks, and carravals, and more. Grandpa taught me lots of more nautical terms, and I told him what I knew about ships.
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