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!