Today in the Clear Spring School wood shop we continued making trains with the 1st and 2nd grade students, coal cars and cabooses. They showed me photos taken on their train ride last week.

The 3rd and 4th graders made the cargo to fill the wagons they made last week. the blocks of wood represent bags of flour, bushels of beans, corn and dried fruit, and all the rest of the essential foodstuffs required for a journey west. Each student had written a story about their imaginary family and had to plan the food stuffs and wagon loads in quantities based on family size. The photos above show Ozric and Bella with their trains, and Sierra's fully loaded wagon and story book. The wagon and contents are designed at 1/16 scale.