3rd Grade Field Trip

I don't normally love to go on field trips, but Corbin pulled his big brown puppy dog sad eyes on me and said Please, please, please. How can you say no to a face like that. I should be glad that they still want me around. So off we went to "This is the Place State Park".
I guess that they have been learning about Indians in school so we learned more about the Native Americans while we were up at the park. Here is Corbin sitting in one of the dwellings that a Native American from Utah would have built. It is a big round stucture, made of wood and mud. It has a big hole in the top of it, so that when they would make a fire inside, the smoke could escape.

Corbin learned how to grind corn with a stone to make cornmeal. He enjoyed doing this, but I can't imagine having to do this all day long, like the Indians did.

We learned about the animals native to Utah and how the Indians skinned them. The men were responsible for hunting, but then the women had to haul the animal back to home and then skin it. The women were responsible for everything else except the hunting(the easy part).

An Indian dwelling.

We had a great time, and learned quite a bit while we were there. I also learned that field trips are not that bad. I had fun spending time with my son.