Friday, December 9, 2011

Kindergarten Pumpkin Patch Field Trip 2011


I was lucky enough this year to rearrange my teaching schedule so that I could be a volunteer on Aidan’s Kindergarten field trip to the pumpkin patch at Butler’s Orchard. This definitely was one of craziest field trips that I have volunteered for… First of all, the buses were 45 minutes late arriving to Butler’s Orchard. So once the kids were unloaded off the bus, they only had a little over an hour to play at various activity stations, get a hayride to the pumpkin patch, pick a pumpkin, get a hayride back, and eat lunch. Aidan and I were paired up with his friend Maya (she is so sweet!). We quickly decided that the two important stations that we wanted to try were the potato sack slides and then the rope spider web. Then it was time to make a bee-line and run to stand in line for the hayride to the pumpkin patch (it was long, as we were not the only school visiting the Orchard that day). After the hayride, I basically told both kids that they had 5 minutes to find their pumpkin and stand back in line to catch the hayride back for a quick lunch. It was a miracle that we were able to do all this in such a short amount of time, but we did (running helped)! As hectic as the field trip turned out though, it was great getting to hang out with my boy and his school friend during their field trip and see their happy faces.

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