The Franklin Institute

We went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia yesterday. What a fun and busy day! We got to be part of both a Liquid Air show and the Science of Combustion show, and then we got to explore all over the museum.

Here are some bits and pieces of our day! We were moving around so fast that I didn't take quite as many pictures as I usually do! A few of these are borrowed from another teacher. :-)

 

Exploring the Air Force plane

I try to encourage working together as a team! Here they are trying to pump up a balloon as much as they can before the timer runs out. (They still have some work to do :-))

They are turning a train wheel and then hitting the brakes to see how quickly it makes the wheel stop!

 

One of the first things we did was walk through the Giant Heart - twice! This display has been around for a long time (I walked through it when I was in elementary school!) and is always the thing that kids remember the most about the Franklin Institute!

 

One of the newest areas is the Sports Zone room. The boys loved racing against the Philly Phanatic and trying out some surfing techniques - among other things! 

Faith and I were buddies all day :-)

 

Group picture to conclude our fun field trip!

Fun in the Leaves!

We had some fun in the leaves outside on Wednesday. It was an unusually warm day for November, so we had to take advantage of it!!!

Making Applesauce

Quick poses before starting :-)

Cutting up the apples!

Say "APPLE!!!"

Using a Victorious strainer to make our applesauce!

All done and ready to be served!

The elementary students were quite thrilled to help us eat all the applesauce!

Week 9 in Pictures

Last week we did some fun activities! On Monday, we made animal puppets with Miss Briar. On Wednesday we did some Apple prints. We took apple halves, dipped them in some paint and pressed them over and over again on paper. What a fun and messy activity! On Friday, the Elementary joined us as we made some "acorn people". We had a lot of acorns to decorate!!!

 

Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum

On Thursday we went to Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum for their Hands-on History day. We got to walk around and explore an 18th and 19th century village filled with all kinds of preserved items from that time period of Pennsylvania German culture.

We got to work with sheep's wool and learn about the process of turning it into yarn.

We had to use these special "combs" to get all the knots out of the wool.

We got to go on a wagon ride through the village!

A group picture in front of the general store before we got to go explore inside.

Enjoying the beautiful weather during our lunch break!

Although there are many parts of this time period that fascinates this teacher, I am so thankful for certain modern conveniences! Thankfully, this outhouse was not the actual facility we had to use! :-)