This past Monday, I played hookie from work for the morning and joined Amanda on her first 1st Grade field trip. Destination: Iron Hill Museum.Partnered up with friends Juliana, Jackie, and Rebbecca, we got an education on
the original inhabitants of our region: The Lenape Indians (pronounced len-o-pee).We learned about their homes (wigwams and long houses), about their clothes (animal skins...which the girls all found gross), about the way they hunted (no bows and arrows yet; just spears thrown with a device called an atlatl) and we saw some of the holes that they had dug looking for Jasper stones.
Rounding the morning out, I stayed with the class for lunch which I think greatly amused all of the kids...as well as some of the teachers.
