http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/TMiller1/rss/blog_9787.xmlTina Miller Blogen-usFri, 18 Sep 2009 16:49:49 GMTFri, 18 Sep 2009 16:49:49 GMTSchool World<P>&nbsp;A Great Trip</P> <P>I have taken my classes on many different field trips.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; But the best field trip my class and I have been on was to Pioneer Homeplace in Gibson County High School.</P> <P>Two years ago, Ms. Michele and I took our fourth and fifth graders to Pioneer Homeplace.&nbsp; Mr. Ramsey's&nbsp;interpretive history class hosts the homeplace.&nbsp; His students led us on a tour of the cabins, barns, and the blacksmith shop.&nbsp; They showed us how the first Pioneers made soap, yarn, candles, medicine, and food.&nbsp; We saw a history student make a real horseshoe in the blacksmith shop.&nbsp; In the cabins, we saw how pioneers lived, where they stored their clothes, what they did for fun, even where they used the bathroom!&nbsp; We broughta picnic lunch and ate at the homeplace and played games in the afternoon.&nbsp; My favorite part of our trip was seeing some of my former 4th graders as high school students leading the tours.&nbsp; I was very proud of the good jobs my former students were doing.&nbsp; I also loved the chance for my 4th graders to see what they can do if they work hard at Gibson County.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P>