Field Trip Day

Today, Lauren and I took a road trip to an Early History Museum. It was sooooooo interesting! We learned all kinds of things about Illinois. We learned about what the prairie grass and flowers looked like originally. We learned about ways of the early settlers. We learned about the animals that used to (and some that still do) habitate here. She and I both really enjoyed ourselves. If you live anywhere near it, it was a great field trip. It was worth the drive and it was CHEAP!

Here below, they used a rope and it was unraveled at one end. They used to to demonstrate how a root system would have been in the prairie and how deep they went back then.

There's a one-room school on the property. We didn't go in it this time. It's part of one of our trips coming up. (We have 2 more lined up for sure, that I'll blog about in the coming months.) The prairie grass to the right of the girls is what it would've looked like over most of our state.

(Below is Lauren and her cousins, Ellyn and Meggon.)

The kids learned how to shock the corn. They taught us about how the corn farmers gathered up their corn like this to help it dry. Today, we use grain bins to do a similar process. Lauren REALLY liked this part of the day.

The monarch butterflies were all over these flowers. Can you see them?