Despite the rain (or, perhaps, because it was raining), the 3rd and 5th grade classes enjoyed a wonderful day with hundreds of other school children at The Tunbridge Fair in Tunbridge, VT. We spent the morning looking at exhibits on the Antique Hill. We visited one of Tunbridge's original one room school houses (1840). We spoke with a blacksmith and observed logs being hewn into beams. We watched an enormous log being bored lengthwise and transformed into pipe to be used for conveying water from spring to home. We learned through observation and narration about the tools and machines used by farmers more than 100 years ago. These were the tools that enabled Vermonters to thrive as farmers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Our early afternoon was spent visiting the small and large (and I mean large) animals.
I hope you enjoy the pictures and video clips as much as I enjoyed traveling through the exhibits with the third and fifth grades.
Please Note Tomorrow is photo day at TGS. Also, the fifth and sixth grade classes may take a hike during lunch and PSD tomorrow. Please send your child to school with good footwear, a light jacket, and a lunch that can be carried in a backpack.
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