Heritage School

As a fourth grader at Pershing you get to go to Heritage School. This is an exciting rite of passage for each of the kiddos. Tai is mostly sad that she didn't get to go because we moved to Pershing the middle of her 4th grade year and they had already gone. Trey must have had so much fun at his that he has made Genna look forward to it for 3 years.

Heritage school is an all day field trip for them so that's always super exciting because they know they will not have homework. They get to ride the bus and go out to a little old school house like they had in the "olden" days. They are asked to dress up in the garb that was worn during the late 1800's. (Well I think that's the time frame but I'm not sure and Steve can't really tell me.) Genna borrowed a costume from our dear friend. She was so excited. It was handmade by Heather's grandma and her girls wore it when they went to Heritage school.

The other thing that they tell you to do is bring a lunch that would look like one from that time period. They provide you a pail to carry it in but they want authentic time lunches. Well...as much as possible. Suggestions were: beef jerky (although I know very few people who actually make their own jerky anymore), boiled eggs or potatoes,pancakes or biscuits (seriously, who makes hand-made biscuits now?), jelly, butter or lard (NO MAYO), raw veggies, apples, pears, berries, a homemade cookie. But of course, do not bring nuts due to allergies (I'm pretty sure that restriction is not authentic). No sandwich baggies. Items should be wrapped in wax or brown paper or cotton cloth.

I told Genna I didn't really have time to make homemade cookies but I'd be happy to buy her a sugar cookie from Casey's and take it out of the plastic wrap and wrap it in wax paper. Steve said that was cheating and I told him that he had better get to baking Betty Crocker because I do not have time for that. Tai ended up making homemade cookies for a friend so she was nice enough to save a couple out for Genna. We were nice enough to forget to actually pack the cookies. Okay, that was by complete accident but Genna was sure her bestie would give her a bite of her cookie.

I think half the excitement of Heritage School is in the preparation. At least I think it was for us. Genna reported having a great day and it was fun to play on the prairie and interesting to see. She will not be leaving us for simpler times because she's decided electricity and running water are pretty cool things to have in school.

One more kiddo for Heritage School in two years. She was pretty excited about it until she found out that in 3rd grade they get to hatch chicks so she figures she can wait her turn.