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Boat # 6 will be off the building form, rolled over and

frames going in next week.

 

A few kids are already swimming the length of the pool

 

Rowing practice starts April 21 at Jamaica Pond

 

Launching date set for June 8 at Jamaica Pond
 
COMING THIS SPRING 

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Our students conducting an oral history interview to gather primary source data about the involvement of African Americans in our maritime history
 

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Olive Fulton, great niece of Matthew Henson, telling the story of her great uncle's leadership in the first trip to the north pole.
 
 
Boston Family Boat Building
133 Paul Gore Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
 
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TODAY AT THE BOAT SHOP
 Boat #6 for this school year
 Jadaya boat #6 2011-12
 
AJ & Elaine #6
The bottom went on today!
Rollover on Tuesday!
 
AT THE POOL THIS MORNING
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Two more boats to go this year and then we move on to the oral history project.
 
Rowing practice starts in April.
 
Launching day is June 8 at Jamaica Pond.
 
Fourth graders go out for a week of sailing on the Roseway in June.  
 
It has been a great year so far and there are many more teaching and learning opportunities to come.
 
Boston Family Boat Building brings critical academic subjects and skills -- math, science, social studies, spatial thinking, reading and writing -- to life with experiential learning opportunities for school children. It is a unique program serving Boston Public Schools elementary school children that draws on the outstanding natural features of Boston and its rich history. Now in its 6th year, the program works with 4th and 5th graders to learn navigation skills in the Harbor, construct a seaworthy 10-foot wooden rowing vessel and learn about earlier Bostonians, particularly African Americans, who worked in the maritime trades. Check out all our programs to bring exciting experiential learning opportunities to students of the
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Boston Family Boat Building is supported by

volunteers, individual donors and funding from:
The Jane B. Cook 1983 Charitable Trust, CHT Foundation,
Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Fund, Amelia Peabody Foundation, 
Robbins-de Beaumont Foundation, A.C. Ratshesky Foundation

Wellington Management Foundation, Schrafft Charitable Trust,
Block Island Maritime Funding and Boston Public Schools.
The 2010 trip to the Small Reach Regatta was supported by the
Downeast Chapter of The Small Craft Association