Showing posts with label Field Trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Field Trips. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

Rock the Presidents by Shaun, Andrew, Noel, and Makayla


We went to Sheas in Buffalo to see Rock the Presidents.   There were 3000 people there so it was a loud audience.  We liked the show.  They sang 28 songs!  The songs were all about our presidents.  They led us as we waved our arms back and forth, did fist pumps in the air, and other fun motions.

The Cast was just 3 people:  Yolanda London, Eric Boudreau, and Colin Ross.  They had cool outfits, nice shoes, lots of energy, and good voices.  The 2 young men ran out into the audience 2 times.  They ran to the back of the auditorium and then back to the front giving high 5’s along the way.  Two of our favorite songs were: They Got a Dog,, and Hail to the Chief.  We also liked Are You a President-to-Be? 

They taught us some interesting facts about our past presidents.  We played a game called Presi-tron.  They described a president and we had to try to figure out who they were talking about. 
Here are some facts we did not know:
Ronald Reagan once tried stand-up comedy.  Gerald and Betty Ford were fashion models.  Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket on a horse.  President Obama collects “Spiderman” comic books.

After the show, we picked up a pizza at Marks Pizzeria on our way back to school.  It was a long ride.  We all ate in the cafeteria before going home.  It was a really fun day.


Thursday, November 8, 2012

Fort Niagara Field Trip

We went on a field trip to Fort Niagara while we were reading the book The Gold Laced Coat.  It is a great book and they tailored our tour of the fort to include parts from the book.  Our class just loves history so this has been very fun to tie it to ELA.  We took a second field trip to follow the path that the characters in the book had to travel.  We went from the fort to Niagara Falls.  Thankfully Mrs. Tharp didn't make us walk!  We took a poll and it was much longer than we imagined it when we read it in the book.  Then we walked around the falls.  We took pictures and used the flip cams to take video.  We loved taking pictures and videos.  We are going to put them together into an animoto video.   We will post it when it is done!