Last week we rode our magic time machine (aka our school bus) back to the late-1800s to visit the cabin of Job Carr, one of Tacoma's earliest non-native settlers. Carr himself travelled out west in a covered wagon, much as we have been doing in our Westward Ho! simulation, and we really enjoyed experiencing a little slice of life in Tacoma as it would have been back then.
We started by singing a few old-time songs, and even hearing a dulcimer played. The kids always love a rousing round of "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain." Whoa, Babe!
We made some quilt squares (the easy way - gluing cloth scraps onto paper), which we later turned into a little classroom quilt.
We played with some frontier-era wooden toys:
We even got to try on some frontier fashions:
These bonnets were so cute, Mrs. Towne and I had to join in the fun!
All in all, a wonderful step back in time.
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