The 4th graders at the boys' school got to participate in a re-creation of the Oklahoma Land Run from April 22, 1889. Connor's class has been preparing for this for weeks. Cale and I were a little late so we missed the actual "run" but were able to see everything set up. I still remember doing this in elementary school too, but WOW, this one was much more involved that the ones I participated in. The classes were broken up into families of 5 or 6 and each was given a part to play (mom, dad, son or daughter). Connor's "family" had two dogs, a covered wagon, a trading post, mattresses and a "fire" going. For lunch they dined on beef jerkey, apples, blueberry muffins and Connor took a Dr. Pepper (he never gets to drink caffeinated soda, but he pointed out that the can says it has been made since 1885...so, for this one day, he got a DP). Many of the "families" had large tents set up and each family was to choose a way in which to improve their land (having a bakery, mercantile, blacksmith shop, homestead, trading post, etc.). They also got to choose if they wanted to claim a larger country plot or smaller town plot of land and each family had a stake with their number on it. It was fun to walk thru and see all of the thought that went into this day.
Finally he got fed up because all they had to offer were apples and he just wasn't interested! Here he was telling them to go away since they didn't have a proper trade :)
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Oh, I miss land run! He had quite a set-up going there and looked so cute :)
No one here thinks twice about Land Run day, and I miss hearing about it. Thanks for pics!
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