Friday, May 24, 2013

Living History


Today our team had the exciting opportunity to visit the 6th grade students' Living Museum. The 6th grade students have been working very hard to learn about an important individual from ancient history. Today each student had the opportunity to be an exhibit in a very unique museum.

As we walked up into the main hallway, we saw many different kids dressed in costume and standing perfectly still. We were in groups, and each group had 6 tickets. Our groups walked up to the person and put our ticket in their cup. As soon as we did that they person came back to life and told us all about themselves and what life was like when they were alive.

We liked the living museum for a lot of different reasons. Some of us like the kids' costumes. One person thought that the props were really cool, especially when the ancient person acted out something with his or her props. Another person really liked that, unlike a regular museum, these displays came to life and you could actually learn all about them by listening to them instead of just looking at them. Several kids talked about the interesting facts they learned as they listened, and many other kids mentioned how much they liked the costumes. You can see some of what we experienced in the slideshow below.

Our team was VERY impressed by the 6th graders. It was obvious that they worked very hard to learn their about their people and spent a lot of time perfecting their speeches so they could do it for us today. Congratulations to the 6th graders, and thank you for inviting us to come to your museum!




Thursday, May 23, 2013

Exercise and Animals

Team Kit Kat has been having a very busy week! We started off on Monday with our first intermediate field day. This day long event, similar to a track meet, is part of the Phys Ed curriculum. Ms. Shenk and Mr. Klose, along with many parent volunteers, work very hard to make this day a success. While it was VERY confusing at first, once we got into the swing of things we were all able to find our events, and many kids on our team earned many different ribbons. You can check out Ms. Shenk's website for a slideshow of our day.

Then on Thursday we took a short walk to the Fairgrounds for a presentation by the high school agriculture students. We visited 10 stations, and the high school kids did a great job teaching us about large and small animals, agricultural businesses, machinery and our environment. We're so lucky to have high school students that care enough about our community that they are willing to do so much extra work to teach us about things they enjoy. Check out the slideshow of our morning at the Fairgrounds!