Saxon Field Trip Memories

Last Week of 6th Grade

Here's our exciting last week of school:


Tuesday - VBS training
                 wrapping up classes
                 STUCO Great Skate - Field Trip
                     **student may come to school in Zion spirit shirt/jeans OR standardized shorts (no jean
                         shorts)    wear SOCKS
                 bring cold lunch w/ drink to eat in classroom

Wednesday - wrapping up classes
                       bring cold lunch

Thursday - wrapping up classes
                    cleaning
                    yearbook signing
                    bring cold lunch


FRIDAY - closing chapel and awards ceremony
                  10:00a.m.  Dismissal

Saxon Field Trip

Thanks to the moms and dad who helped to chaperone our field trip.  Without you, I could not make opportunities like this possible.  You are truly appreciated!

We learned a lot about early immigration and the challenges the early Lutherans had to their faith as they faced many trials.  Although the kids will tell you the favorite parts of the day were the bus ride and recess time with friends, they did learn and experience a lot more!  Check out our many photos.  (slightly out of order as I had 2 cameras.)

Historic Trinity Lutheran Church

Note the raised pulpit - C.F.W. Walther - synod's first president preached from here

Before becoming the first seminary, this was a school for both girls and boys to get a higher education

The money chest that held the treasury for the immigrants

Learning farm chores at Saxon Memorial

The Schnitzelbank

Hulling corn

At the blacksmiths

Carpentry shop

Break time!

Organic milk - no homogenization - has the cream still in it

A daisy wheel butter churn

Learning how to do our own laundry

The outhhouse!

Our friends, the cicadas, have left their skins behind

More play time - football and frisbee

Our last stop - the one room schoolhouse.  Our guide had been a student here.

Fun on the bus home!

Meet George Washington....

....one of several froggy friends hopping around.

C.F.W. Walther's statue - found by accident in a used car lot!

Slave quarters that were on the property before the Lutheran immigrants purchased it

More farm chores

Grinding corn

Using a draw knife to smooth an axe handle