Oh no! The teacher's coming with a stick because we were talking in school! Run to the time machine!
Ding, ding, ding! School's in session, and the year is 1880. Wait, it's 2014! Well...not on Monday. That's because on Monday we went on a field trip to the Troy Historic Village. We went to school at Poppleton, a real one-room schoolhouse from the 1800s. We went there to learn about the past and what it felt like for children in school back then. We learned about the 3 R's, we wrote with chalk on slates, and we played with old-fashioned games at recess. We even had to change our names to names of kids who really went to Poppleton! But if you really lived in the 1800's, you would NEVER want to get in trouble. That's because the punishments were HORRIBLE! If you were tardy, you would have to do your work standing up. If you chewed gum, you had to spit it out, put it on the chalk board and stick your nose in it. Worst of all was the dunce cap! When you didn't do your homework, you had to put it on and sit in the corner, and your teacher would call you a dunce (that means a stupid person)! They could even hit you with a stick! And that's what it was like in the 1800's.
Oh no! The teacher's coming with a stick because we were talking in school! Run to the time machine! There we were, on the bus, heading to the Morley Candy Factory for a field trip for Social Studies. We got there, and we were so excited. There were different activities we were going to do. There was watching a movie about where chocolate comes from, seeing the assembly line, and visiting the store. (We got to go there first.) We walked inside the door, and BOOM! There it was - candy, candy everywhere! Big candies, little candies, sweet candies, sour candies. All kinds of candies! And of course, choooooocolaaaaate! We got to go shopping there, because in Social Studies, we are learning about how to spend money wisely. We only had up to five dollars to spend in the store, so we had to spend that money wisely. But at least some of the candy was cheap! Everybody got something yummy and had lots of fun.
One bright, sunny morning last week, we got packed up to go see the musical Seussical! We had to go really, really fast, because the play started at 10:00. But then, we went SO fast that we had a few minutes to play on the kindergarten playground while we waited for the bus to come. We only had a minute or two, though, when the bus arrived. We got on the bus with Mrs. Lindstrom's class. We drove, and we drove, and we drove, and we got there JUST in time. As soon as we found our seats, the play started. The Cat in the Hat was in the play, he was really funny!
Today we went to Morley Candy Factory on a field trip. We learned where choclate comes from and how it's made. We even got to see the assembly line and how the workers work together to make the chocolate candy. We saw a video of how chocolate is farmed from trees. We also got to shop for candy in the store. We had a budget of five dollars and we had to use mental math to keep track of how much we were spending. Everything was so yummy, it was hard to choose! Now, we get eat all our chocolate, but we hope we don't get the chocolate touch!
p.s. If you want to know about the chocolate touch, read the book The Chocolate Touch, by Patrick Skene Catling. On Friday, we went to the Detroit Zoo for a field trip! We practiced using a real map to get to all the places we wanted to go there. Some of us saw the polar bear, the eagles, the kangaroos, the gorillas, the flamingos, the prairie dogs, the tiger, the wolverine, and the lions. It was an incredible day! When we got back, we had more excitement! We had a jogathon assembly and we won the Golden Shoe! We even had a Smarty Party that day.
Click here for a video of the polar bear playing in the water. It was amazing! |
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