Last week we went to Jamestown with a group of our homeschool friends. We'd had some cool weather earlier in the week, but Thursday was a lovely day to get out. Even better, it was National Park Week so there was free admission. The kids were mostly delighted to run in the fields and grass, which was fine since we didn't plan or prep ahead of time for it to be a more educational field trip type activity. Next year in history we will be covering Jamestown and it will be a better time to come back and read all the signs and take a tour. Still, we saw the remains of the homes in New Towne, walked in the 1607 fort, and saw wildlife along a raised walkway they have over the swamp. They also had a little museum inside where the kids got tags with the picture of an object on it. If they found the object pictured and told the front desk a fact they learned about the object when they returned the card, they got a prize.
We caught a couple minutes of an archeology walking tour and it was really interesting! Even The Big One was listening intently, and probably would have continued with the tour, had he not been even more interested in following his buddies. Maybe I'm just behind, but I had no idea that they were still doing active archeology on Jamestown. I guess we've been learning so much ancient and medieval history that I figured that those more "modern" times had everything known about them.
The Little One especially enjoyed seeing Pocahontas.
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