St. Augustine Field Trip
Date – Time
October 17, 2014
– 7:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Additional Information
Field trip to St. Augustine for all grades - Driver forms need to be turned in by October 10th and permission slips for students who need to ride with someone other than their own parents need to be turned in by October 14th.
Places we plan to visit on our trip:
9:30 a.m. - Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park - 11 Magnolia Ave. - $6.00 (K-6th) $7.00 (7th & up) http://www.fountainofyouthflorida.com
11:00 a.m. - Mission Nombre de Dios - 27 Ocean Ave. - School tour scheduled - $3.00 per person donation - http://missionandshrine.org/
12:00 p.m. - Castillo De San Marcos - 1 S. Castillo Dr. - Children 15 & under are free, Adults (16 & up) are $7 - self-guided tour - http://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm
*Parking at Mission is free. Parking at Castillo is $1.50 per hour.*
*Picnic Lunch*
1:30 p.m. - Colonial Quarter - 33 St. George St. - School tour scheduled (about an hour) $6 per student, $10 per adult - http://colonialquarter.com/
2:30 p.m. - Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse - 14 St. George St. - School tour scheduled (under an hour) - $2.75-$3.75 per person - http://www.oldestwoodenschoolhouse.com/
3:30 p.m. - First Colony: Our Spanish Origins • An Exhibition from the Florida Museum of Natural History at the Government House - 48 King St. in St. Augustine. Gov. house free admission, First Colony exhibit $4 per person - School tour scheduled.
*Dinner at Pizza Time - 124 St. George St.*
6:00 p.m. - Pirate & Treasure Museum - 12 S. Castillo Drive - School tour scheduled - $5 per person - http://thepiratemuseum.com/
*Map*
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine - http://www.thefirstparish.org/cathedralbasilica.html
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine is the oldest parish of a permanent European settlement on the North American continent north of Mexico.
Note: The Basilica is being renovated and is closed during the week. We need to scratch this off our list!
More places to see in St. Augustine:
The Oldest House - Students $3, Adults $4 - http://www.staugustinehistoricalsociety.org/teachers.html
González-Alvarez House is the oldest surviving Spanish Colonial dwelling in Florida.
Fort Matanzas- http://www.nps.gov/foma/historyculture/index.htm
St. Augustine Lighthouse - http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/
The Real First Thanksgiving!
If you want to know about the real first Thanksgiving on American soil, travel 1,200 miles south and more than 50 years earlier to a grassy spot on the Matanzas River in North Florida. This is where Spanish Adm. Pedro Menendez de Aviles came ashore on Sept. 8, 1565. This is where he, 500 soldiers, 200 sailors, 100 civilian families and artisans, and the Timucuan Indians who occupied the village of Seloy gathered at a makeshift altar and said the first Christian Mass. And afterward, this is where they held the first Thanksgiving feast.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2009/11/22/Was-first-Thanksgiving-in-St-Augustine-Fla/stories/200911220153#ixzz3AVCVHz2Y
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