Big Piney 4th Graders
Big Piney Elementary School brought 38 4th grade students out to the Sommers Ranch Homestead living history site as part of their Wyoming History lessons.
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Introduction
Former Big Piney school teacher Jonita Sommers talks to the kids. It is her family ranch that the homestead project and site is on.
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Hen and eggs
Kids got to collect chicken eggs.
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Egg nests
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Collecting eggs
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Bringing in the eggs
Each of the kids had a chance to collect eggs and bring them over to the homestead house.
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Washing eggs with vinegar
The students washed their eggs with vinegar.
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Bread and Butter
Homestead volunteer Jamie Brewer spreads the home-made butter on bread for the kids to taste.
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Spinning
Sandy Bousman demonstrates how to use a spinning wheel.
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Spinning
Sandy Bousman spinning demonstration
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Laundry day at the homestead
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Pumping water
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Tasting the well water
It tastes great!
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Takes two to carry it
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Pumping but no water
At some point the well pump broke and would no longer pump water, much to the disappointment of the kids. That was a good chance to talk about how devastating it would have been to have the well break on the real homestead. Something else that needs to be repaired - life on the homestead, continual maintenance and dealing with things breaking was more of a challenge to those living here in days gone by.
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Strong man
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Having fun washing
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Scrub, scrub, scrub
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Rinsing out the soap
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Rinsing laundry
After washing, the clothes had to be rinsed in another basin.
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Craft activity
Kids got to make clothespin dolls and alligators.
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Concentration
The boys made green alligators, red fire dragons, blue sea monsters and Ninja warriors out of the clothespins. (Parents, look out, you might find your clothespins at home disappear and turned into doll families and Ninja warrior armies!)
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Help! The alligator got me!
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Hat attack
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Learning to rope
Angie Thomas helps show kids how to throw a cowboy rope.
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Learning to hold the rope
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Learning to rope
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Ready to throw
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Petting Nibbles
Kids could pet Nibbles the horse.
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Teeter-Totter
Kids line up for a turn on the homestead wagon wheel teeter-totter. It has been rebuilt from the original one, which uses tractor seats for seats and broom handles to hold on to.
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Counter balance
Besides being a lot of fun, the teeter-totter is a good lesson in weight balance.
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In the stock truck
Kids can climb in the old stock truck and play
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Swinging and shooting hoops
Homestead playground
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