Today's sunset was really vivid and full of color. I just thought it was beautiful.Thursday, December 11, 2008
Syd's field trip to Conner Prairie
Sydney went on a field trip to Conner Prairie today. We went to Prairietown where it was Dec. 24, 1836. 
We started at The Golden Eagle Inn where we met a gentleman who taught us about Hanukkah and the Menorah. He also let all the kids spin the dreidel, Sydney spun ש-Shin which means she had to put in treats.
We then visited Mrs. Zimmerman who ran the Inn and she told the kids about German Christmas traditions. She also let the kids us a Springerle (German cookie mold) in the cookie dough.
She then took the kids into the kitchen to show them how to cook over a fire.
After that we went to the Schoolhouse where Mr. Ferguson told us it would cost 3 cents a day to attend school. They would have to go 6 days a week and school was held December, January and February and they would have to be at school on Christmas day as it wasn't a holiday back then. The kids also got to do some spelling and math using a slate, soapstone and a piece of fabric.
We started at The Golden Eagle Inn where we met a gentleman who taught us about Hanukkah and the Menorah. He also let all the kids spin the dreidel, Sydney spun ש-Shin which means she had to put in treats. We then visited Mrs. Zimmerman who ran the Inn and she told the kids about German Christmas traditions. She also let the kids us a Springerle (German cookie mold) in the cookie dough.She then took the kids into the kitchen to show them how to cook over a fire.After that we went to the Schoolhouse where Mr. Ferguson told us it would cost 3 cents a day to attend school. They would have to go 6 days a week and school was held December, January and February and they would have to be at school on Christmas day as it wasn't a holiday back then. The kids also got to do some spelling and math using a slate, soapstone and a piece of fabric.We then went to Mr. Whitaker's store where he taught us about money. They didn't have American currency here so they used Spanish Dollars which they cut up to make smaller denominations which coined the terms 1 bit, 2 bits, etc.
We finished our tour at the Curtis' home where the kids got to churn butter and have a cookie and we learned their version of Christmas was what we celebrate today.
I thought it was informative, the kids liked the hands on stuff but not the speeches so much.
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