Pumpkins

Pumpkin math and the pumpkin hunt was a great success! In pumpkin math students estimated weight, height, and circumference by comparing knowledge of other pumpkins weight. We also used pumpkins to discover descending and ascending order.
We had the pumpkin hunt yesterday and the students had a great time (we had a lot of fun hiding the pumpkins as well).
Today we will go on our field trip to Champoeg Park to learn about Pioneers. We will visit the Pioneer Mothers Cabin and the Newell House. Descriptions of both museums are below. Thanks in advance to the chaperones!

Pioneer Mothers Memorial Cabin

Experience life as it would have been for the early pioneers in a log cabin at the Pioneer Mothers Memorial Cabin. Learn about the earliest settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, Wagons Westward and Pioneer Life. Experience life through hands on activities, kneading sour dough bread, carding wool and washing clothes as the pioneers would have done.


Newell House

Discover life as lived by one of Oregon's earliest legislators, Robert Newell. Learn about the beginnings of the Oregon Territory, Statehood and his life as a man of many firsts as told by interpreters in period dress. Learn about a catastrophic area wide flood that would change the lives of the residents of Champoeg forever. Through a scavenger hunt, learn about artifacts of the period and how they were used in every day life. Then learn about the making of a beeswax candle, make one and take it home with you as a remembrance of your experience at Newell House.