The 4th graders studied Washington State history this year. The end of the year field trip was to Walla Walla. We visited the Whitman Mission and Fort Walla Walla. It was barely an hour bus ride so it was pretty fast.
At Fort Walla Walla, the kids learned about how wheat was harvested in the "old days." They learned about mules and old threshing machines.
They had some old jail cells from the old penitentiary. They kids thought they were great.
Fort Walla Walla had a village set up with a school, barbershop, blacksmith shop, livery. old log homes, etc.
Nathan's class at the one room schoolhouse.
We had our lunch at Fort Walla Walla and then drove over to the Whitman Mission National Historical Site.
The kids walked the foundation of the Whitman Mission. They had a map of where the rooms were.
Their teacher read out of a book about the events that happened at the Whitman Mission as the kids sat in the room where it all happened.
Nathan and friends.
There was a turtle in the pond.
The part of the Oregon trail that branched up to Walla Walla.
The gravesite.
The class walked up to the monument. I stayed with the backpacks and clipboards.
The trail was so pretty.
Nathan and his friend working on information about the trip.
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