This year for school we are studying the history of Texas. It's fun for all of us, because we're learning it right alongside the kids (I didn't learn too much Texas history growing up in Colorado!).
So we started out with a field trip to the Mayborn Museum on the Baylor University campus, where we could walk through Texas history starting from the beginning... or, at least, way back in time!
We stood on a glass platform over a dig site where the fossils of mammoths were uncovered.
The replicas of homes from early Texas history gave us a picture of what life was like in the periods we are going to study.
One of our favorite parts was exploring the historic village outside, where we went to church,
visited the general store, and did a little reading in the schoolhouse.
We even got to ring the school bell!
This hot day was also a good reminder... the early settlers did not have air conditioning!
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