Field Trip!

It wasn't to egypt, or to any egyptian related place... but it was a great educational day none the less! I had the pleasure of helping my niece with her 4th grade mission project. Here in California the standard 4th grade history course of study is California History - and the Callifornia Missions are a huge part of that! So today the GBA visited Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Here are a few highlights:

All the kids in front of a statue of Fr. Serra and an indian child. Douglas thinks he is silly!

Posing in front of one of the many fountains! Again - Douglas thinks he is funny!



Look at these Indians - Now Lauren is funny!

Here is my Niece Gabby making all of us some acorn mash - I'm all about the hand's on learning ya know!

A fun family picture at the end of the day!

When Mrs. Crabtree calls in sick...

Yesterday Mrs. Crabtree had a migraine, so she called in sick. I handed the bugs a package of brown lunch bags and they had access to all their other "crafty" supplies...

so this morning I wake up to this:

I *think* that is quackers inside 2 bags....

Miscelaneous mess....

some sort of monster puppet...

puppet and mess...

I know the bugs had fun but I sure wish the mess wasn't so big!

I bet the first principal I worked for thought the same thing every evening when she went into my classroom - it was always a disaster - and I mean a disaster... my answer was: Learning is messy business... and it's still true today!