What a fabulous day of fun learning. The kids and I went to the Wade House to participate in their School Days civil war reenactment. It was really so informative. JJ really loved the cannons and his only disappointment was that they didn't fire them. He wanted to 'see' and 'hear' them in action. We rotated through various stations. It was very well organized. Only negative was that at the end President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address - which would have been great but we couldn't hear him. The sound system they had didn't work and therefore we didn't hear but a word here or there. The rest was great.
We learned about cannons and the type of shot used. We learned about the uniforms of the navy during the Civil War. We got to see the calvary in action. The kids even got to touch the horses which were very well behaved. We saw the laundress. Plus we learned about the role of children during the Civil War. They had a traveling salesman that did a show to sell his wares. That was interesting but some of the kids didn't get that it was for show. They really wanted to buy the products.
The bees were out in force. It was a beautiful warm sunny day. We couldn't have asked for nicer weather. But that brought out the bees. JJ did get stung. I watched him for a good 1/2 hour but he was fine. I am highly allergic so I worry that they might have inherited that from me.
It was just a great day spent with friends. I originally signed up just our family and then mentioned it to a few others that are also teaching TOG year 3 this year. This really ties right in and they opted to join us. I think it made it all the more special to have friends to hang with all day. I will try to post pictures later this weekend.
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How exciting! We're hoping to take another trip back east sometime in year 2 or 3 of TOG. We're doing year 1 this year. I suppose a trip to Egypt will be out of the question (LOL).
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