Personal and Minnesota Histories Meet

We took an exciting trip to the Minnesota History Center today. The day started at 9:30 as the first group of 20 students boarded the 64 bus toward downtown. Over the course of an hour, over 80 students rode public transit and practiced feeding tickets and tokens into the bus. One group even had the authentic (although not intentional) experience of getting on the wrong bus and having to backtrack.

Once we got to the museum, Chong assumed the role of bus driver on this restored bus in the MN150 exhibit.

Eh Dah practiced conducting as he listened to the MN Orchestra.

The "Open House" exhibit gave everyone a chance to practice the vocabulary they're learning this month in the housing unit. Here, two students are playing in the "yard."

Many of the students made connections between their own wartime experiences and the displays in the "Greatest Generation" exhibit.

Say K Paw compared notes with an interpretive volunteer on food rations used in the U.S. during WWII and those used in the Thai Refugee Camp where he lived.

On the way back to the school we packed the bus with Arlington Hills learners. A few learners joked that today was "Karen Language Day" on the bus. Several students were soaked after having run through the downpour to get to the bus. Despite the rain, everyone seemed to have a good time.

Garden For May

First time we go to pick dirt on the garden in to the church and we pick on the pot. We mixed together the dirt and rock in the pot.After we buy the flowers in the market .Andthem we plant the flowers tomatoes and chilipaper in the garden.

the june garden.

in june we picked the grss, the plants grew. some vegetables. grew some plants had small flowers we looked vegetable plants tomatoes plants.

Garden in july

we picked the grass. we picked the vegetable. we saw the fruit. we saw the flower.we saw the many color. we saw the tall vegetable.we are going to the pick fruit going to eat.

May in the garden I plaint the Flower in vegetable plaint the tomato in chilipalple in myne vegetable they are to gaethe in plaint the vegetable

garden to july

we walked in the garden .we picked the grass wepicked the begetables and we looked at the flowars. we put the dirt in the garden .

in the garden there are chili pepers ,tomatos,cabbages, cucumbers, green onions, cilantros,carrots,and bitters.

in the garden we use hoe and water can.

Garden in june

We watered the plant.We picked the grass.We saw the chilipepper flower.We saw the tomato fruit.We saw the tomato,flower,chilipepper and egg plant growing up.