Field Trip

Today I was able to go on a field trip with Charleigh's class. We went to the Delaware agriculture museum and the John Dickenson  museum.  It really hot but the kids seemed to have a really good time.

This is a one room school house they moved from somewhere is Delaware. It was for kids in the 1st- 8th grades.The lady talked to the kids about what school was like for kids back in the 1800's. She also talked about the Sears catalog. The kids got to do fake orders Charleigh and her friend ordered fans and harmonicas. Silly girls!!  It was really neat to look around and see all the things that  were from the 1800's. I am very glad that we have schools with more then one room. It was very small. I would have gone crazy. One of the things kids got to do was write on slates.  They thought that was fun.

 Next came the General Store.

 This was an actual store that had been moved. Here they learned about the Barter system. I also learned that during the 1800's that Delaware was the biggest producer of peaches in the US. Who would have thought.

After that we visited the Barber shop. This guys was really neat. His name was John Little Bear.

 He told the kids that barbers didn't only cut hair but they often also were dentist and doctors.  He said that when they were doing surgery they would make a small cut on the wrist to let the fever out in the blood. They would wrap a towel around the wrist and when they are done they would put the towel out on a pole. When the wind would blow the towel  would around it and make it look like a striped pole and that is why barbers use that striped pole as a sign now. Gross!



Next came the Train station.

Our group. They were really good. Our last stop was the farm house.

 Can I just say I am so thankful for modern day appliances. That was a very hard life for a Mom. Well That is it for the 1st stop I will do another post for the 2nd stop.