Eiteljorg museum

 

Fall is field trip season for us.  I feel like we've had a field trip every week!  Our most recent field trip was to the Eiteljorg Museum downtown.  First, driving downtown is never a good idea!  We got somewhat lost, but managed to get there on time.  Caelin is very interested in Indians, so I wanted to make the effort to go on this trip, even though I wasn't sure how the younger kids would do.  I had never heard of this museum and it is fairly new, but they have a lot of Indian artifacts and talked about the Indian tribes that lived in indiana.  As I feared, our tour guide was a little above the kids' head.  It was supposed to be for kindergarten -2nd graders, but even the 2nd graders struggled some with following her.  I think they would have enjoyed the museum more if they could  have just walked around and looked at the exhibits as they wanted.  We were all very interested in the cradle boards :)  There was a really fun area where the kids could make tee pee models, and they loved that! We could have stayed there for the entire hour!

We ended in the basement where there was a really fun area the kids could play in.  They could dress up and play in all kinds of 'old fashion' areas, like a stage coach :)

Volcano!

So the kids take homeschool classes in the afternoons on Tuesday and Thursday.  I was a little concerned about Connor taking science class.  I know what Caelin did during kindergarten science, but she was a whole year older then Connor when she did kindergarten, and I just wasn't quite sure how he would really do.  But the wonderful, and very loving, teacher assured me that he would be fine.  So we signed him up.  And just like Caelin when she was in kindergarten, he hops in the van and tells me what he did in science :) .  And I am impressed at what he remembers and seems to be absorbing.  The other day, out of the blue, he started talking about using playdough to make a volcano.  And that you need baking soda, and WHITE vinegar.  Very adamant and clear on the WHITE vinegar.  So yesterday, we made his volcano.  He was excited, and so was Claire.  Caelin tried to act 'no so excited', but she enjoyed it as well.  I was proud of myself for just going with the flow and breaking out the stuff to let him do it.  Too often, I put things off because I want to make a lesson plan, and get books from the library, and look on pinterest for ideas, etc... and then things don't end up happening.  So we just went with it.