Field Trip Thursday!

We took a field trip Thursday. Some of the kids said it was pretty "Random". It had totally slipped my mind what the plan was for the morning so once the kids got settled into their work I just blurted out, "Oh, we're going on a field trip!!!!" I love to be spontaneous. We walked down to Mr. Morgan's room to see the freestanding sculpture of Henry Clay that Mr. Morgan's classes have been restoring. It was a perfect way to visually show the students what freestanding means. Termites had nearly destroyed the old Judge Elm sculpture. Livingston County history says that the old tree that Clay is carved from was where hangings occurred in town. The tree was located in front of the Gower House but when lightening struck and destroyed the tree it's trunk was saved and carved into the likeness of Henry Clay.