Today is February 26, 2009 and it is our class’ first field trip! Our day started when Ms. Jensen greeted us in the play yard and arranged the students into groups so that we could all go in separate cars to our exciting field trip. I was in Josie and Mychael’s group and the three of us drove with Mr. Green as our driver. It was a long way to get to Riley’s Farm. It isn’t your typical farm. It is more like a tiny village that teaches people about what life was like during the Revolutionary War. It was like living the life of what we are reading about that time period in our history books. The people who work at Riley’s Farm also dressed like that time period. Even the men were wearing tights! Once we looked around we were ready to start the first part of our visit.
The first part was playing the games that colonist children played during that time. There were a lot of interesting games and I chose to play stick and hoop. It was really hard but I had fun. The next thing we did was to practice being the Lexington Militia. We were helped by a man who was like an army sergeant and he taught us how the militia prepared for war. We didn’t use guns, WE USED STICKS! The man that helped us told us about how his ancestors (great, great, great grandfather) founded Riley’s Farm. He told us interesting fun facts about the Revolutionary War and about how his ancestors founded the farm.
Next we went to a tent where we learned how the colonists paid their taxes! I learned that paying taxes wasn’t fun then and it isn’t fun now.
Right after that we learned about how the colonists lived life in the household. We even met cows and one of their calves was a bull. It was so cute to see. Soon we went into a courtroom and saw an example of how unfairly the British treated the colonists.
The next lesson was how to weave on a loom. It looked very interesting but at first it was hard. I finally began to get the hang of it when Brooked helped me. But the lesson was soon over.
Lunch time finally came and we were given a ration of corn bread, beef jerky, cheese, apples, and lemonade. Right after eating we had a couple of minutes to go to the gift shop.
The end of our wonderful field trip came when we had a fake war with another group using sticks instead of guns of course. ST. TIMOTHY SCHOOL WON THE WAR!!
Once the war ended we spent more time in the gift shop before having to leave. The drive back to school wasn’t too bad because we could take a nap or watch movies during the ride back.
What a fun and educating day we had thanks to Riley’s Farm and Ms. Jensen for choosing it!
1 comment:
Sofia, I thought that was really good. But you forgot to add that we learned how their manners were back then.
From, Josie
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