Last week our family spent several days in Washington, DC and Pennsylvania, taking the kids to historic sites ranging from the Air & Space Museum to the Gettysburg battlefield. Indeed, one of my favorite things about this fall’s sabbatical is that it lets us continue the historical exploration that we did much of the summer back in Minnesota. Here’s a map of where we’ve been (plus a few sites coming up later in the fall):
So this morning for The Anxious Bench, I updated a 2015 post and shared “6 Things I’ve Learned about Teaching History to 6-Year Olds.” If you’re interested, just click here.
Meanwhile, I’ll devote the rest of this brief Pietist Schoolman post to sharing some of my favorite pictures from our travels:
Listening to our voyageur guide (“Étienne”) at the North West Company Fur Post near Pine City, MN
Pumping water at the Oliver Kelley Farm, a living history site outside Elk River, MN
Experimenting in the Water Lab at Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum
Lena flying the Spirit of St. Louis at the Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site in Little Falls, MN (alas, she crash-landed by the Eiffel Tower, but everyone was okay)
After completing six visits to Minnesota Historical Society sites this summer, the kids each earned a stuffed “History Hound” (posing with them at Fort Snelling
My favorite: Lena being sworn in as a junior National Park Service ranger at Grand Portage National Monument, near the Minnesota-Ontario border on Lake Superior
Katie and the kids in “Mrs. Lincoln’s Attic” at the Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL
Isaiah learning dulcimer at the Blue Ridge Music Center near the Virginia-North Carolina border
Lena educating Oma and Opa about the V-2 rocket program at the National Air and Space Museum
The Pietist Schoolman 