Maine Maritime Museum Trip

Thanks to Nina's dad, and the moms of Sailor, Mathieu and Henry for helping us out today! We appreciate your time! We absolutely loved our "Sailors at Sea" workshop with Mr. Jon. Photos are in the link below. Enjoy!

MMM Photos

Maine State Museum

We had a successful, exciting trip to the Maine State Museum! Many thanks to our parent chaperones who guided the children! We are very grateful for their time and energy!

Scavenger hunts are going home today and they make for great talking points at home.

It sounds like many of the children would like to go back for another visit. It's an interesting place!

The 4th grade hopes to return in the spring to have a tour of the State House.

Maine Maritime Museum Trip

Maine Historical Society/ Osher Map Library Trip

Ask your child about visiting the gallery of the Historical Society, the Longfellow House, and the Osher Map Library. We will continue to work on a packet that they started today which helps the students understand the similarities and differences between today and the late 1700s. Thank you to the moms of Darby, Josephine, Ethan, Oliver, and to Maddie's dad. We are very grateful for our chaperones!                                                                          

Trip to Pineland Farms

Ask your child about our trip. We all left with a greater appreciation for how dairy products get from the farm to our tables.

A Virtual Field Trip

We went lobstering yesterday!

 Ask your child about our trip out on
Casco Bay with Lobsterman Chris and Lobster Bob!

Trip to Augusta

Ask your child about our State House Tour and Maine State Museum visit. The children also participated in a workshop, Logging Camps and River Drives. It was a wonderful day and we are thankful to our chaperones for their help.

Pineland Farms Trip

We had a beautiful day and the children participated in a "Seed to Harvest" workshop. Ask your child about it.

Maine Maritime Museum Trip

We had an exciting trip today. Experiencing an actual shipyard and a variety of boats and equipment reinforced lots of our learning about Maine. A big take away for the students is that commercial fisherman have the most dangerous job in America. Ask your child about the cool game they played using coordinates. Thank you to Stefan's mom and the dads of Charlotte and Jake for coming along! Have a great weekend and a WONDERFUL Mother's Day!

Trip to Maine's Capital Building and Maine State Museum

Ask your child about yesterday's trip! Many thanks to the moms of Lauren and Kate and dads of Ryan and Charlotte!

Maine Historical Society and Longfellow House

Our trip back in time was great! We found a lot of connections to our current read aloud, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. We will continue to explore our "umbrella question"- how was life different in Maine during the Civil War time period?  Many thanks to our chaperones, Mrs. Dawes, Mrs. Jenkins, and Mrs. Juarez-Cancino!

Trip to Pineland Farms

The children enjoyed spending some time on the farm and learning about agriculture in Maine.

Maine Maritime Museum

We had a wonderful visit to the Maine Maritime Museum! Our workshop, "Bounties of the Sea", helped the children understand the history of fishing in Maine and what it takes to run a commercial fishing business. Ask your child about this visit and maybe you'll even get to return to learn more together!

Maine State Museum / State House Trip

The children got lots of information today! Thanks to our chaperones for guiding the children during the day.  See if you child can give you a guided tour using this slideshow.

Maine Historical Society

We had an informative visit to the Maine Historical Society and Longfellow House. Ask your child about what they learned about electricity in Maine and Henry Longfellow. Thanks to Mrs. Keaney, Mrs. Felker, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Miles for their help on the trip. Mr. Mason also shared some local folklore that had the children spellbound!

Weatherbeaten

    We had a great trip to the Portland Museum of Art this morning. Ask your child about the special exhibit on Winslow Homer.  Can your child remember the name of this painting?  As out docent pointed out, we may see this type of sea as Hurricane Sandy approaches.  I hope you will take advantage of the museum pass that your child brought home today.  If you're already a member, it's a great gift for another child. Thanks very much to Evan's and Kathryn's moms for helping out on the visit. 

Pineland Farms

What a wonderful trip! Ask your child why farms are important to Maine.

Our Trip to Jillson's Farm

The weather was unseasonably warm, but we had a great day on the farm!