Field Trip Day

Today Brandon and I had the opportunity to attend Elijah's kindergarten field trip to the Pioneer Farm/Ohop Indian Village. We learned a lot of cool things about the first pioneers to the valley; such as the types of tools they used, the different items they used on a daily basis to do everyday activities and even milking the jersey cows. In the indian village we got to go through the different seasons and learn the different things indian children would do during these times. The children got to make arrowheads out of slate rocks and practice their hand/eye coordination with throwing spears, hoops around "salmon" etc. The boys were even able to make arrowheads out of slate rock.

One neat thing that I learned was that the native indians here didn't wear animal pelts. With all the rain it made the skins to heavy to wear. Instead the natives wore clothes made from cedar bark. It was a really fun day and I'm glad that we were able to go and learn about all the cool things that are part of this valley's history.