Day 9

Yesterday was exhausting and I got home around five and just fell asleep till dinner time and completely forgot about my Blog. I was so tiered because we went on a field trip yesterday with he entire third grade. The trip was to go along with the classes current unit on colonial farming. The kids split their day between a farm called Gaining Grounds in Concord and the head masters house near the upper campus. The kids were split into two groups and all congregated for lunch at the Wilkins. I spend all day at the Wilkins where one of the bigger groups was split into three smaller groups, and moved around to do different stations. I was a group leader and lead one of the smaller groups from station to station. The stations all had to do with colonial times. The first was bread baking where each group got to bake little loafs of bread, we ended up with something like 40 miniature loafs of bread. The next station was weaving where each of the kids got to weave place mats from strips of paper. Finally the kids went on a nature walk on the Lincoln conservation land to look for stone walls, witch is how colonial farmers marked their land. Also on the nature walk the kids made butter by shaking a Tupperware full of cream while they walked. We stopped in a big open field to show the kids how big an acer is by having them walk out 66 yards in different directions and then making a square. After the nature walk we headed back to the Wilkins for lunch, after the kids ate the ran around for a bit to burn off some steam we headed into the afternoon happenings. It was also one of the kids birthdays so he brought in little cupcakes for every one. After lunch the groups reversed and those who were at the farm in the morning stayed at the Wilkins and vise versa. The afternoon went pretty much the same as the morning just with a different group and in a different order.