Field Trip to Old Salem

Jack’s 3rd grade class, as did Ella’s 3rd grade class, headed to Old Salem on a field trip this spring.  Old Salem is a living history museum in the historic district of Winston-Salem that shows life in colonies for a Moravian community in the late 18th century.  This is one of my favorite field trips—I just can’t go to Discovery Place one more time—so I was happy to chaperone.  Instead of being in charge of 4 kids like on Ella’s field trip, I was in charge of 6 kids on this day so another mom chaperone and I decided to combine forces (which made for more kids together but also helped with more eyes on kids).  We had half the class.  I was definitely glad I’d been to Old Salem before so I could watch the kids instead of trying to figure out where to go.  It was an exhausting day but so fun to spend it with Jack and his friends. 

{starting the bucket brigade.}

{learning about starting fires with flint.}

{a lesson in making soap from lard and lye.}

{our motley crew.}

{and the whole class.}