Field Trip

First of all, I would like to thank the parents who gave up time in their day to attend our first field trip of the year- Tom's mom, Ashlei's mom, and Alex's mom. It was wonderful to have you with us!

Monday was a beautiful day, and in the afternoon we joined up with our 6th grade Guardian Angels to visit the National Mexican Museum of Art. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful museum within a half mile of our school.

When we arrived, we dropped our coats and joined our tour guide. Our first stop was in a room with an altar for the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos).

We also got to discuss some artwork in the museum. The one below is a skeleton playing a bass. In the background is the Earth with skeletons, and on the ground is a lot of trash. Our tour guide explained to us that it showed how careless humans are about the way we are destroying the Earth.

We saw masks and paper flags. We even stopped by the gift shop where we saw lots of artwork and sugar skulls for sale. One of the parents and I bought the smallest ones for all of the students to try.

Everyone was well-behaved and seemed to have a lot of fun! It was great to learn about the Mexican culture!