Field Trip!

Today was our field trip to Historic Deerfield and it was great! The students got to experience what life would have been like in Deerfield during the colonial times. The students got to experience hearth cooking and made soft gingerbread. Cooking in a hearth is very different than cooking in an  oven. Cooking was much more labor intensive during colonial times.

Kunsang helps add the ingredients

Watching the gingerbread being put into the hearth

David gets his hands dirty making gingerbread

Anthony helps out

Marcus

The gingerbread in the hearth

 

 

Besides hearth cooking, students also learned how cloth was made from sheep's wool. Carding, which is the fourth step in making cloth, was usually the job of the children in the house. Students tried carding wool and found that it was not an easy job!

Learning how wool is made into fabric

Mrs. Penza tries carding wool

Bianca hard at work

Kunsang and Georgia have fun!

 Another step in the process of making cloth was weaving the cloth on a loom. All the students agreed this was a much better job than carding wool!

Most students said their favorite part of the day was the colonial school house. Students learned that life in the colonial school house was serious business and rules were expected to be followed.....or else!

Marcus puts his nose in the hole for his misbehavior

Abby makes sure she is paying attention

 Thank you to Mr. Burgess, Mr. and Mrs. Dion, Mrs. Powers, and Mrs. Sackrey for being drivers and chaperones today. :)

Back in the classroom, Georgia is our calendar math helper this week. Great job running calendar math this week Georgia!