"Field" Trip

A couple weeks ago the class went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch where we got to do all kinds of exciting things including picking our own pumpkin. Here is mine:

Along the way we counted cows (a difficult task), gas stations, and calculated the average time it would take to get from school to the farm. I really enjoyed looking at all the differences in the houses and buildings along the way because they were so diverse. I took these through the window of a moving car so they're not that great.

From this house (that looks like it has on an old school metal army hat)



To this little guy. We had to turn around in this driveway because Bobby drove right past the pumpkin patch! :]

Once we arrived there was all sorts of things for us to do. Some students completed a maze, some raced on to find the perfect pumpkin (or destroy the rotten ones WITH permission of the owner), some stayed in the shed with the warmth of the fire, and some (like me) found the most entertainment from the animals there, particularly the goats.

I was fond of this one. Okay, I was fond of both. But this one smiled for me.

In the following weeks our class circulated the entire curriculum around pumpkins. So not only did we enjoy ourselves on our trip, we also learned an important lesson in how simple it is to incorporate all subjects into one simple idea. It sounds like a task but once you start, it just spirals out and actually becomes effortless and really is a much more effective and efficient way of teaching.