A Trip Back in Time

We had an amazing time in 1917! The students quite enjoyed our day on Monday at Ye Old Schoolhouse. In addition to experiencing components of a traditional day at school, we also toured the Heritage House. It is a turn of the century farmhouse with many authentic artifacts. Ask your student to share some of the most interesting parts of their day.

To connect this field trip with our curriculum, students are currently working on a compare/contrast Triple Venn Diagram. This will help them organize and develop ideas to write about in the Compare/Contrast essay we will start in class today. As a way to get started, students brainstormed how they might describe qualities of school in 2010 and have begun comparing them to 1917 and when their interviewee attended school. It's been fascinating to see how many differences and similarities there are from generation to generation.

Here are some photos of our trip! Enjoy.

And a few class pictures:

**Missing Matt from our pictures! Wish you could have been there!**