The girls are both settled into their school routines and for Lauren that means that field trips start. Kindergarten is the culmination year for Montessori students and the kindergarteners take a field trip once a month. I was chaperone for the first one, which was to a Colonial Plantation at Ridley State Park. The plantation is run just as it was in the 1700’s (with the excepting of working toilets, fortunately).

Here’s Lauren performing one of the traditional children’s chores – chopping wood. I can say with certainty that if we needed to rely on our kids for warmth we would be dead.

They also made their own candles by dipping a wick into a pot of melted bee’s wax (about a hundred times).

The Plantation also had a bunch of animals that the kids got to see and pet.

 

Chickens, turkeys, and an enormous ox. The ox works the fields just as he would have hundreds of years ago. Fortunately they don’t eat any of the animals any more.