Addy an American Girl

For the longest time I have wanted to read the American Girl books with my girls and do fun activities that go with them.  I just could not find the time and kept putting it off.  So when Maggie chose the Addy's Story Collection series from our library for her slave trade classic to read, my first instinct was to ask her to pick a new book.  I am glad that I was open to inspiration because I told her to go ahead, it would be a great book for her study topic.  It only took Maggie 2 weeks to read the entire series.  I knew she would love the books, our one on one time was full of Addy!  To celebrate finishing we did some projects together.  The experience was more than I had expected it to be, beyond my expectations.  I love spending time with this girl!

The rest of this post is written by Maggie;

We found an Addy Walker website with games that I could play.  I especially enjoyed play Mancala with my dad.  In the book Addy, she played Mancala, double Dutch jump rope and clapping games with her friends.  She also enjoyed making shadow and spool puppets.

Addy's mother did not know how to read but Addy did.  Addy taught her mom letters and letter sounds while they were baking.  She would make letters out of leftover biscuit dough.  Addy loved her mom!



 

While escaping from slavery her mom gave her this special shell necklace.  The necklace used to belong to her grandma who was stolen from Africa to become a slave.  It was tied on with her brother Sam's shoe lace, her brother was sold away from the family with her father.

Sweet Potato pudding was Addy's favorite Christmas dessert.  It was delicious!

This is an applique pillow like the quilt from the pictures in my Addy Collection.

Addy made a scarf for her mother out of left over material.  She really wanted to purchase one from the store but she knew that her money was needed to help the slaves be free.  So instead she made her mom a scarf for Christmas.

 

 

This is an Ida Bean doll.  Addy got her Ida Bean doll on the same Christmas she made her mom a scarf.  Her mom made this doll for her out of leftover material from the dress making she did.  Addy loved her doll and cuddled with it every night.

 

I learned a lot about slavery through the eyes of a slave girl that was my own age.  She lived with many challenges like, loosing her brother and father to slavery, leaving her baby sister behind and saving her mother from drowning.  If I had to go through these things, I hope I would be as strong and as brave as Addy.  I learned that you should always treat people good not matter what color they are, how much money they have, what language they speak or if they are just different from you.  Reading Addy helped me to understand that no matter what age you are you can still do amazing things.