I was fortunate enough to attend Eli's field trip. The elementary went to the Geoje Shipbuilding and Marine Culture Center, which is about 1.5 hours away. Many of our students' parents work in the shipbuilding industry and live in Goeje. Those poor kiddos ride the bus for about 3 hours round trip every day. Makes me even more thankful it's a 4-minute walk door-to-door for us.
The first activity was learning about light houses. Instead of using their eyes to see the lighthouse, like boats do, they were blindfolded and had to use their sense of hearing to find where the docents were making their noise from.
The next activity was a scavenger hunt. The kids received clues and then had to find the answer to the questions. One of the questions was to find the ship that Columbus sailed on. Eli is standing in front of the Santa Maria. That was also the name of the boat we took our sunset cruise on while in Osaka.
The last activity was constructing their own light house that even has a fun little colored light in it. I learned that light houses are white and red. If it is white you need to sail to the right of it, and if it is red you go to the left. They also have color coded lights if it's too dark to see the color of the light house.
After lunch they had a few minutes to run and play outside.
This is the 3rd and 4th graders in front of a geobukseon, or a turtle ship. Admiral Yi Sun-shin had only 13 ships, yet Korea defeated Japan's 133 ships in the Battle of Myeongnyang in 1597. The turtle ship had armor on the top, making it look like a turtle. Canons were fitted in the front to shoot out of the dragon's mouth.
Just 2 days later the elementary kids went caroling near the school. They walked to a daycare, a coffee shop and a pastry shop.
This is at the Coffee Tree. It is right across the street from school. I have bought gift cards from there and the owner is really nice. She gave the kids cutie oranges when they were done.
I walked with them down the block to Paris Baguette. There were not many people there, but the shop sent home a box of treats for the kids.
[December 10 and 12]
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