This is the Place Field Trip

Monday of this week my kids and I took a field trip to This is the Place Heritage Park. They all really enjoyed themselves, and it was great because it went along with the fourth grade social studies curriculum which involves Utah history. We went on a tram ride around the park with a tour guide who passed along some interesting facts (who knew Brigham Young's house was PINK!), then we ate lunch in the bowery, and went on a rotation which included descriptions of some of the buildings and some very good actors/actresses who sent the kids back in time and set the stage for how things were back then. We went and saw the mountain man first, then went for a lesson on the deseret alphabet in the old school house. This was followed by some square dancing in the John Pack home, and finally the whole class got to give pushing/pulling handcarts a go. My personal favorite part was when the school mistress was teaching the kids about discipline. Come to school unprepared and you get to sit on a stool in front of the whole class wearing a dunce cap all morning and then are dismissed at lunch time. If you disrupt class in anyway, you stand on a step stool in the corner with your nose touching the wall and your arms out behind you (maybe even with books in your hands) for however long the teacher deems necessary. And of course if you were really bad, you got a paddling. The kids looked reasonably frightened :). Below are some pictures from the event!

Riding the bus on the way there

Cute girls

So excited

Gangstas on the tram

Thank goodness WE didn't have to do this!

I didn't get to see everything I would have liked to and would definitely consider going back for a day trip to see more sights. Any takers?? :)