La Paloma students learn by living history

History lessons in third grade are supposed to include local history and for Fallbrook’s third graders that means a trip to the De Luz Ecology Center which is also known as the De Luz Schoolhouse. On Dec. 8, a class of 29 third graders from La Paloma Elementary School traveled by bus to De Luz with their teacher Christa Rhine.

Rhine said, “They enjoy being out here.” She added that the children, who have heard about the place from older siblings and schoolmates, had been counting down the days to their fieldtrip, repeatedly asking “When do we get to go?”

To put the day’s lessons in perspective...