November 11 Field Trip and Activities

On Veterans Day the CLASS students took a field trip to the Museum District in downtown Tacoma. We visited the Icons of Washington exhibit at the Washington History Museum and learned about the wagons pioneers used to cross the Oregon Trail, a huge portrait of Mt RAnier that used to hang in the Rainier Brewery, and Galloping Gertie the bridge that fell into Puget Sound into 1940s.

We then went to the Museum of Glass where we saw work by Preston Singletary and we also got to actually see Mr. Singletary making glass in the Hot Shop. Also the students loved the "Kids Design Glass" exhibit. For this exhibit, kids drew a picture and wrote a story about the picture. The picture was then turned into a glass piece which is now on display in the museum. They have 52 of them now and they are so colorful and whimsical and hysterical. Our students smiled and laughed all the way through this exhibit.

The students spent a little time in the studio making some art of their own, Native American masks which they busily colored.

Next we had a lovely lunch at Spaghetti Factory. We chowed down on bread, salad, pasta, and spumoni ice cream.

Back at Peace the students learned some salsa steps from AmeriCorps tutor, Josh. They also learned to make spring rolls from another AmeriCorps tutor, Cam Tu.

We watched a movied called "The Ernest Green Story" about the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957.