Feild trip to American Textile Museum

Field Trip to American Textile Museum

by:  Rus, Age 9

      Hi. I am Rus. Filia, Tert, Leo and I went to the American Textile Museum in Massachusetts. We brought some things to listen to like Jonathan Park to pass the time away because we had a long drive to the museum. It was a little over an hour. Thankfully listening to something helped us not to be bored. We drove through a lot of construction to get out of our Lane. They are doing piping on our road, so they needed to rip up the road. They did not pave it, so it was hard to get over the road. They have holes all over the place so we need to be careful to get out of the road.

       Next we needed to find the parking lot. We accidentally went in the wrong parking lot, so when we walked around the building we found out that it was the wrong place. We were in the parking lot next to the museum's parking lot. When we got inside we found our group. After that we broke up into smaller groups. Then we all went down to a class room. We heard all about how the Silk Road stretched from Italy to China. We saw things that might have been traded on the silk road.

       Then we went back to the class room to play a game. It was a game that you had to pretend that you were traders on the silk road. You traded in your goods to get other things. There were signs that showed you how many points your goods were worth and how many points other goods were worth. This is an example  

2(points) Spices   

 4 food 

3silk 

1 Jewels and ivory

You needed a strategy to win the game.
        I also loved when we toured the museum. We saw the easiest way to lift 500 pounds! We also saw what the general store would look like and the inside of a house. We even went up and saw a lot of silk dresses. I think that this was one of my favorite field trips.

Report By: Rus
Pictures By: Leo 

 Spices

 Trading Items

 Weaving