What an adventure! For two days, these young pioneers with the capable help of our classroom chaperones, Melissa, Robin, Wendi, Heather, Ryan, and Dave, experienced the Oregon Trail at the campgrounds in Boring. Students learned the rigors of washing and wringing out laundry by hand, dipping candles, grinding grain for flour, sawing logs, cutting shingles, constructing log cabins, using plants for medicinal and everyday purposes, panning for gold, learning the value of various animal pelts, shaking butter, and baking bread. And that's just the tasks during the day! The students cooked their dinner on "hobo stoves", learned songs and traditional games of the era, as well as got a few winks of sleep in between the days' activities. The 4th graders came away from the experience much more knowledgable about the rigors of life on the trail in the mid 1800's.
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AuthorKori Bass, Nancy Gilkey, and students of room Z002 Archives
September 2017
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