the pioneer museum (field trip time!)

Yesterday Matt and I drove/chaperoned the 1st & 2nd grade field trip.  Bonus for us that we have a first grader and a second grader!  And bonus that Matt could take some time away from work.  And that Grandma could watch the three boys.  And that our girls still think it's fun to have Mom and Dad on the field trips :)

Actually, both the company (my favorite elementary schoolers and their classmates) and the destination (the pioneer museum in a nearby town) both appealed to me.  So volunteering to drive came easy! 

Julianna was up at 6:10!  (Usually I wake the girls a little after 7am! - she was SOOOOOO excited to go on the field trip!)

Team K.  The five 1st graders in our van.  [Look at Noah - he loves having his picture taken :) he he]

Our first stop at the plant nursery.  They've been learning the parts of a flower - and plenty of flowers suffered moderate damange in the investigations ..... 25 children looking for pistils, stamens, etc.  It was one very gracious nursery owner!

[on Julianna's right is her best buddy, Haley.  Also Jewel and Kenadi (pink sweatshirt)]

My favorite part of the pioneer museum was definitely the outbuildings - several quonset huts full of old tractors and fire engines and snow mobiles and even a covered wagon replica.

Also a one room school house and two turn of the century prairie homes (think Laura Ingalls Wilder) that were painstakingly dismantled and reconstructed on the museum grounds.

The two teachers held a mini classroom session in the schoolhouse.  The kids were expected to stand beside their seat when they answered a question and were sent to put their noses in the corner if they talked out of turn.  So fun :)

Lunch at Happy Joe's.

And the class pics on the train.

The two classes do a lot together - music, gym, etc - and there is even another 1st/2nd grade sister-pair... it all adds up to some pretty close relationships.   And a whole lot of fun.

So grateful for the chance to go on this field trip with all of them!