September 18, 2009
posted 9/18/2009 12:49 PM

Ms. Tina's writing

 A Great Trip

I have taken my classes on many different field trips.  We have gone to the movies, the children's museum, Heritage Days in Union City, a farm day in Rutherford, and plays in Jackson and Huntington.  But the best field trip my class and I have been on was to Pioneer Homeplace in Gibson County High School.

Two years ago, Ms. Michele and I took our fourth and fifth graders to Pioneer Homeplace.  Mr. Ramsey's interpretive history class hosts the homeplace.  His students led us on a tour of the cabins, barns, and the blacksmith shop.  They showed us how the first Pioneers made soap, yarn, candles, medicine, and food.  We saw a history student make a real horseshoe in the blacksmith shop.  In the cabins, we saw how pioneers lived, where they stored their clothes, what they did for fun, even where they used the bathroom!  We broughta picnic lunch and ate at the homeplace and played games in the afternoon.  My favorite part of our trip was seeing some of my former 4th graders as high school students leading the tours.  I was very proud of the good jobs my former students were doing.  I also loved the chance for my 4th graders to see what they can do if they work hard at Gibson County.

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