In school we have just begun "our trip around the world." For social studies (or core as we call it) we study all 7 continents. While visiting each continent we learn about a few countries in that continent. Currently, we are in North American. We just finished studying American Symbols and now are moving onto a unit on the Native Americans who lived in America before it was settled by the pilgrims. It is a fun unit because it falls around Thanksgiving so we can do a lot with it. This year we heard the nature center in Stamford had a program for Kindergarten age children on the Native Americans. We booked it for the week before Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun! The person running the program had several stations set up for the students to rotate around too. On station had NA tools, one had eating/cooking utensils another a game, that sort of thing. At one station they had some pieces of hardened clay. When you rubbed them together hard enough the clay became soft enough that you could rub it onto your skin, like war paint. The kids had a blast with this station. I didn't want to be left out so I put some on myself. My coworker who was taking pictures of the trip snapped a picture. When we looked at it we both got a big laugh... It looks like that bird is sitting on my head! It was really just a stuffed bird positioned in the right place to look as if it were on my head. We all got a good laugh out of it, what a fun field trip!
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