Forest Park Field Trip: 6th Grade Report

Today we have a special edition of Student Reporter News.  You'll find several posts from our student reporters giving accounts of their recent field trip to Forest Park.  In this post, the reports were written by two of our 6th graders: Amanda W. and John D.

Piled into the bus and ready for a day of fun.

On October 9, 2014, the OLS 6th, 7th, and 8th graders went on a field trip to the St. Louis Art and Missouri History Museums in Forest Park.  At the History Museum, we look at their really cool displays, talked about the World's Fair, and did a science project where you had to build a filter to make dirty water clean.  The first thing we did at the History Museum was build a filter.  Before we started, the instructors talked to us about how the people back then wanted to have a sparkling clean fountain and not the muddy water from the Mississippi River.  We made a filter to turn the muddy water into clean water, just like they did.  The displays that the museum had were all mainly about the World's Fair.  They had found many different things, made of plaster, that were buried under ground from that time.  Later we talked about the World's Fair.  We discussed how hard it was to make the fair and also how much money it would have cost to construct it.  -- Amanda W.

Creating a water filter at the History Museum.

 On October 9th, 2014, the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders went on a field trip to the Missouri History and St. Louis Art Museum.  After going to the History Museum, we went to the Art Museum by bus.  At 12:00, we were doing a packet on Louis IX about the paintings around the exhibit on Louis.  We look at many Louis pictures in the Morgan Library Picture Bible and watched a video at how to make manuscripts, a writing board before paper.  Manuscripts were made using animal skins that were washed, stretched, and covered with white paper.  At the second exhibit, we learned about Louis' life.  After that, we walked around the 1st floor.  There were many Indian statues, paintings, pottery, and furniture.  There were swords, armor, and lots of Indian stuff.  We played near the Louis statue and took pictures of the STL250 cake.  After that, we went back to class.  If you want to see ancient art, go to the Art Museum!  -- John D.

Working on their packets at the Louis IX exhibit.