A ‘banking holiday’ SOLE field trip | News, Sports, Jobs – The Inter-Mountain
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Thank you to all who helped develop the Kump Education Center summer school field trip for rising fourth and fifth grade students in the Student Opportunities for Learning & Engagement (SOLE) program.
SOLE Administrator Schell Hopwood helped us plan this event earlier in the spring, and Kathy Leombruno shared learning materials from Citizens Bank of West Virginia.
Nancy Bross-Fregonara got a WV Humanities Grant to develop six interpretive pull-up signs that explain this early twentieth century learning experience. Bross-Fregonara found historic photographs and wrote informational text for house tours.
This material is appropriate for field tips related to 5th through 12th grade social studies and math curricula. KEC can also offer reading lists for college and graduate studies.
Four areas on the Kump property are featured in this historic house tour. The focus of the front three rooms of the house is family life and American popular consumerism.
There are two Kump wedding dresses from 1907 and 1936, a functioning Steinway piano, and a Victrola with records that played popular music of the day. It is the perfect place to introduce the Kump family and early twentieth century lifestyle.
The next learning station is the sun porch where students can look out the windows and see how life has changed since Kump House was in built 1924-5 on an 11 acre farm where all the family food could be raised on the place.
The old Philco radio reminds visitors that Governor Kump and President F.D. Roosevelt both took office on the day when banks closed and the President’s first Fireside Chat asked loyal Americans to deposit their money in the banks when they reopened with federal deposit insurance.
Denise Hass, Priscilla Gay, and Grace Sundelin worked with students in the third teaching station set in Kump basement Learning Lab where SOLE students did role-play banking activities depositing money and writing traditional personal checks.
The students also learned about the value of coins by doing math problems adding pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Now that credit and debit cards are commonly used in stores, and online shopping is increasingly popular, many 9 and 10-year-old students have not had much experience with coins.
In the fourth learning station, Jo Rockwell and Laura Santmyer served as storekeepers in the “Pavilion Market” where SOLE students could use their play money to buy sweet treats, traditional toys, and school supplies.
The kids carried their money in brown envelopes serving as paper wallets, and they found free piggy banks from Citizens Bank of West Virginia in their shopping bags. The new Kump Center pavilion was built by the City of Elkins and it was used as a creative classroom area for the first time this week.
At Kump Education Center, we are happy to be able to serve Randolph County students with interactive learning opportunities as we fulfill our mission “to promote student learning.