Field Trip #1
I went to the art museum for a field trip last week. I saw one of my favorite paintings, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat. I also learned that one of the paintings was the biggest painting in the museum and it was also painted by one of the students that went to the Art Institute school, Georgia O’Keefe. It was called Sky Above Clouds IV. She had to paint it in her garage while laying down to get the bottom parts. I couldn’t show you the pictures because they are copyrighted but you can click on the links to see them. She must have had a really big garage because if I remember correctly the painting was 24 feet wide and 6 feet tall.
We had a tour at the Art Institute and the first painting we saw was of Hercules fighting the Hydra by Gustave Moreau. Click here to see the painting: Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra. I think you know what’s coming up – another Greek mythology story. Yeah I know they are boring to listen to but you might learn something so I’m going to tell you the story anyway. So one day Hercules was sent out to slay the Hydra. And on his way he was trying to think of a way to defeat him. But here’s the catch. Every time you slice off a Hydra head (he has seven) two new heads sprout from the old neck. So he couldn’t just slice off all the heads. If he did that he would have 14 heads to deal with. He thought he would shoot a head off with his arrow but then he would have the same result. But before he could think of his plan he got to the Hydra’s lair and he didn’t have time to think of the plan. But as he was fighting he noticed the sun coming up and the sun god, Apollo, was his cousin. So he asked his cousin to set each neck on fire every time he sliced a head off so no new heads could grow out of that neck. And his plan worked. And they all lived happily ever after.
See what I mean? It’s boring. But it teaches you a lesson. Always think before you act.
Field Trip #2
Tomorrow I am going on another field trip to the Adler Planetarium and I had two field trips two weeks in a row.
I’m going to tell you how that happened. So my teacher was planning to watch a show at the planetarium in November but then she was informed that you can go watch a free show at the planetarium in the winter months so she moved it to February. But then another teacher offered her to go on another field trip to the Art Institute but I don’t think she told her the date until the week before so she had already got everything organized and she couldn’t do anything about it so we just had two field trips in a row.
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