Saturday, October 15, 2011

Connor Prairie Field Trip

On Friday, I got to be a chaperone on a 2nd grade field trip with Will's class. We went to Connor Prairie and got to learn what life was like in 1836.
Learning to walk on stilts

In the schoolhouse. we learned that Indiana kids only went to school in the winter months when there was no farming to do.

The blacksmith made a nail for the kids.

Testing out the beds :) The boy in the middle said he still prefers his electric blanket.

This was called a pug mill, and it was at the potter's house.

Turning an old-fashioned pottery wheel

Wow, my son looks like he's actually enjoying work!

Wearing a girly bonnet. The boys got a kick out of this!

The boys were "put to work" by a woman who needed more firewood in the house. They felt very manly doing this job :)

In an Indian canoe

Weapons and animal traps...a boy's delight

They learned that animal skin like the deer's here can be used for leather.

Although I don't have any pictures of this, the boys really liked the "porta potties" (outhouses), and I was glad to have the privilege to teach the boys what a chamber pot was :)

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