This year we are going to do American history, given all the opportunities here for it, and started the year off with Native Americans. Our first day we had a field trip to the Museum of the American Indian in DC with our neighbor kids. It was neat to see the things we have been reading about in our books, like cradle boards and moccasins. They have a full size tee pee in the entrance, and a kids area where we saw a video on tanning hides. The girls had read about a Native America Ojibwe girl in a book called "The Birchbark House", and her hated chore of tanning hides, so it was really neat to see it done with our own eyes. They especially liked the fact that tanning with brains is real!
This is the outside of the museum, easily the most beautiful of all the Smithsonian museums architecturally.
1 comment:
very cool! Good luck with school this year. You are an inspiration to me :)
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