The field trip was pretty good, but the speaker was a little too wordy for the audience. He used a 600 page slideshow originally created for a group of Korean War veterans. Great for them, not great for 5-8th graders. He did skip a few slides and summarized some concepts, which helped. My kids noticed he read right off the slides... really fast. So he talked for an hour and a half and then did interactive stuff for a half an hour. Some kids dressed up as soldiers and got to demonstrate how to fire a bazooka (all dummy equipment of course). Then nearly 70 kids 'joined the army' and did some army drills (lifting up their wooden guns, setting them back down, turning around, etc.). My kids liked that part.
Afterwards we did our traditional Pizza Ranch meal in New Ulm. So tasty! Then it was back to school for a few hours of working. A pretty low-key day.
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