today madeline's class went on an excursion to historic peninsula farm, situated on the maylands peninsula. it was a pretty cool day for all of them considering their focus in society and environment this term had been learning about history - "the olden days".
they arrived at the farm and learned all about the original owners, the hardey family - who had a lot of children... girl after girl after girl until they finally got a son. who was then shipped back to england for a proper education at a young age and didn't see his family again until he was something like twenty years old!! i was horrified by this of course, but have to admit that some days, the idea has merit. haha.
we then played olden days games (like skipping and horseshoe tossing) out the back of the house, before having a tour of the house, with it's low doorways, attic space and big cellar. it's pretty awesome!
i especially loved their food jars all set up. it looked really cool. seeing how the families lived all those years ago was a really awesome day. my favourite part was at the end of the day when they had all the children seated together and showed them a whole bunch of items from this time period and asked them if they could identify any of them. us mums knew some of them but not all, and the kids only got one i think! funnily enough, i remember a similar experience at my own school with olden day studies. i loved learning about earlier times and still do. antiques and shows with period times are the best.
madeline loved making windmills with her group the most and loved the whole day so much. she insisted that i needed to sit with her on the bus which was the cutest thing ever... i really thought she would have wanted to sit with one of her little friends, but no - she wanted me. i felt very loved.
