The Wheels on the Bus go 'round and 'round"....

Hi! Today Julia had a field trip and I got to go as a chaperone! We had so much fun! We took the bus into Washington D.C. to go to the Air and Space Museum, they are starting the astronomy section in third grade so this is a good intro to the subject! We watched the IMAX movie Black Holes on the planetarium ceiling screen! It was amazing! The whole domed ceiling was the screen and it was a really neat movie. We took the kids around to see the Wright Brothers airplane, we saw how they live in the space station--everyone has to know how astronauts go to the bathroom and eat! Very important information for third graders! We saw real rockets, touched a moon rock, saw the pod for the first manned orbit around the earth (it was very small and no room to go to the bathroom!) We looked through telescopes and played with crystals and the light spectrum, saw our heat signature on camera and saw Sputnik. I had 5 kids in my group and we had a wonderful time! Julia has some nice friends and a great teacher, Mr. Tanzi. After we loaded the bus up, we were driving on Pennsylvania Ave by the Capitol and President Bush's motorcade came through! The guy sitting next to us saw Pres. Bush in the limo and everyone was really excited to see all the flashing lights, sirens, and police vehicles! So it was a great day and Julia said her school day went by really fast, that happens when you're gone from school playing! :)