Before Thanksgiving Scott's kindergarten class went on a pretty awesome field trip to Malibu Creek State Park. We spent the day with "tracker Rob" and learned all about the native chumash people.
We started the morning with a smudging ceremony and some songs with clapper sticks.
The kids learned a game that used to be played where you throw rocks or nuts like dice. There is a song that goes with it that Scott taught Owen and the two of them haven't stopped singing since.
We ground acorns to make flour and sampled some native foods: yucca, cactus, chia, elderberry, pine nuts and horehound.
They also got to go hunting and make seashell necklaces.
The kids ground down rocks to make paint and then painted their faces.
Tracker Rob told some great animal stories and finally the kids all got to make their own clapper sticks.
It was definitely one of the coolest field trips I've ever been on. Scott still talks about this day. So happy that our school is able to do such interesting field trips!
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