Field Trip

On Friday, we took our second field trip for the year.  Some of the students reached school one whole hour before they needed to!  The excitement was evident on their faces!

The first stop was the Laura Herb & Spice Garden.  There they took us on a short but very informative tour of their gardens.  They told us the names of many, many herbs and the natural remedies they were used for.  We also got to see the many fruit trees they had and the tree that Prince Edward & Princess Sophia planted when they were here a few weeks ago.  My students especially liked how the tour guide told them that paths are covered in nutmeg shells to give them "a bouncy walk."

Our next stop was a place called the Rome Museum.  An older man had collected numerous artifacts from days gone by.  He also recreated many things himself such as a hairbrush made out of coconut husk, a toothbrush made from a stick, a handbuilt bicycle, and model feet with which he demonstrated how they wore their shoes after they outgrew them and what they did for chiggers.

He told us the story of how in the olden days when a girl was caught standing along the street talking to a boy, she was beat, then made to kneel on a grater, and made to stand on an ant's nest!

In his shed he had numerous other things, including old irons, ancient radios, a camera, old money from a few different countries, and an extremely knotted piece of stump on the wall with an axe.  The story behind the wood and the axe is that when a man wanted to marry a woman he was required to ask her father, who then would give the young man a very dull axe and a very knotted piece of wood and require him to chop it into pieces to the father's satisfaction, which usually was a very long, slow process.  He mentioned something about how it's definitely not that way anymore...but maybe it should be!

Then from there we went to La Tante Point to eat our lunches.  This time the students were strictly warned not to go in the water, and they did pretty well with that...for the most part.  Instead they amused themselves by attempting to fish...without any hooks!

In my opinion, one of the greater accomplishments for the day was that no one got car sick in the bus!  Somehow I usually end up on the bus with the kindergarteners or some other car-sick-susceptible student, but this field trip was the exception, for which I was very thankful!

So all-in-all the field trip was a success.  But as is usually the case, I returned home somewhat worn out in spite of this being a "fun day"!