The Best Field Trip Ever...to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach!!!!

The Blacksmith Shop

Heavy Harness Horses (HHH)

The Barn near the Petting Zoo

The Windmill

Welcome.  These are our pictures from our field trip to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  It was really fun!  Some of us even got to buy candy from the candy store.  In Steinbach there was lots of little houses and other things.  There was even a petting zoo!  Group 2 went into the big red barn and we heard peeping, but we couldn't find the chicks.  On the wagon ride, it was really cool.  The horses were called heavy harness horses.  Steinbach is really cool.  In the windmill, it was really cool.  In the windmill, they make flour.  When we went on the wagon ride, the guy showed us lots of things that the horses can do.  When we were up in the windmill, the man pushed the windmill so that it would go.  It actually worked!!  It was really exciting to go to Steinbach for our field trip.   - Evva

We went to Steinbach and we see everything in Steinbach.  And we went to the blacksmith and the mud house and a horse ride and we have lunch and we went to the windmill.  In the mud house, he tell us a story and the mud house was old.  They used it in the winter.  We like Steinbach and we went to gym after the field trip, but we used the bus to go back from the field trip.  P.S. We have  a great field trip. From yesterday in Steinbach.- M.

Yesterday, we went to Steinbach for a field trip.  It was AWESOME!  We went inside a real windmill.  And it was cool because the miller showed us how you would make flour in the windmill.  We went on a wagon ride and while we were waiting for the other group to get back, we were watching chickens at the barn.  And I saw two lambs and a baby cow in the back.  And then we had lunch.  After lunch, my group went to the blacksmith's and we made little metal rings out of nails.  It was REALLY cool.  Then after that all the groups got free time and my group went into the General Store and bought candy.  Well, some of us bought candy with our own money, but for the people who didn't bring money, our teacher bought us some gummy bears. - Ella

Yesterday, we went to Steinbach.  We were really tired and we needed to walk very far away.  In Group 4, we went to the Blacksmith first.  We made metal rings and we even made our own rings.  The man taught us how to make the rings and he made lots of horse shoes, we even found many horse shoes nailed to the ceiling.  There was a fire there.  He used the fire and a metal thing and he was firing the metal so it easy to bend it into a horse shoe.  When we were done going to the blacksmith, we went to the mud house.  They showed us all of the things they do in the mud house and told us a story about the pioneers.  When we were waiting for the other group for the wagon ride, we went to the petting zoo.  When they were done it was our turn.  We talked all about the things they do with the horses.  Then after that we had extra time in the wagon ride because we were the last ones in the wagon ride.  Because it was lunch time, we were dropped off by the wagon by village centre.  When we were passing by, there was a lady standing there which was really scary.  It was a statue.  - Lara

Yesterday, our class and two other classes went on a field trip to Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  It was REALLY fun.  They told us what it was like a long time ago and what they had to do a long time ago and what they could play with a long time ago.  First Group 2 made little rag dolls.  Then we drew faces on them.  The boys got little black round things for hats and girls got lace for bonnets.  Then Group 2 went on a wagon ride.  The man told us about the horses.  The horses are called HHH, short for heavy harness horses.  Then we got in the wagon and we went on a wagon ride.  After that, we went to the blacksmith.  There we saw a guy making a rose out of metal.  Then we made rings.  We had to hammer one side into an oval and also the other side.  Then we lifted it up and we had a ring.  Then we had lunch.  I tripped and I fell and I got a bad scab on my knee.  Oh no!   Then Group 2 went to a place called Semlin.  That's a mud house.  We went inside and a long time ago that used to be a house.  The guy inside of it showed us around and then he read us a story called "Sush".  It was about a girl who moved to Canada that was the only house.  Then we had some free time, and then we went to the petting zoo and the General Store.  Our entire Group 2 got candy.  Then we went back to school.  - Stella

Yesterday we went to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  We went with two other classes, Miss Hogue and Mrs. Kochan's, but Mrs. Kochan didn't come because she got hit in the head with Frisbee and she broke her nose bone.  And we went there on a bus.  In Steinbach, we went to the village centre to put our backpacks down and then we went to different places.  First we went to the Blacksmith.  We made rings.  It was really hard for some of us to make rings, but it wasn't hard for me - it was easy.  Next we went to the mud house.  There was a guy and he asked us some questions.  And when we went inside, I was thinking that I wouldn't want to live in there!  He told us a story inside.  After we went to make dolls.  First we were supposed to have this rag and then we put a cotton ball near the top in the middle and the we grabbed the corners and pulled it over the cotton ball until we couldn't see it.  Then you need a partner and you are supposed to hold the cotton ball.  Shayla was my partner and she helped me try to tie a knot.  She need a bit of help.  So then we were supposed to tie knots from the two corners and when I lifted mine up, mine looked like an angel.  And I did the knots all by myself.  And then we went on our wagon ride...to be continued...-Lexie

Yesterday was our field trip day.  We went to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  I was in Group 3 with Ella and Skylar and other people.  We were at our first stop, the mud house.  We went inside and then we didn't see any mud as walls.  But I looked at the corner top and there was a bit of mud.  After we explored the mud house, a guy read us a story.  It was called Sush.  After he read the story, we went to make dolls.  -Lara