Final TK Field Trip

At the beginning of May, Drew's TK class went on their final field trip of the year to Smith Family Farms in Brentwood.  It was quite the long bus ride for these 5 year olds (with traffic over an hour) so it put us behind schedule, but they sure jam packed a lot of fun into our time at the farm.

Drew's PM class started by listening and participating in a jamboree.

I was one proud mommy  - the band leaders were asking all sorts of questions and Drew was always the one with the answer (and the right one I must add).  I was later told by one of the other chaperoning moms that the lady came to her and asked how old the group was.  She'd never heard such great answers from one kid and complimented her on how well behaved the whole group was.

After the jamboree, the kids went over and ground some corn to feed to the animals.

There Drew and his buddy Max are feeding their corn to the chickens.  There is another coop where they had peacocks too.

At yet another station, they learned about baby animals and were able to pet a baby chick.

Here's Drew petting the chick...

And a baby bunny (mommy kept her distance.  She's super allergic to rabbits).

For their next station they learned about bugs - both good and bad ones for farms.  Then they were given magnifying glasses to look at different insects.

At the next to last station before lunch, the kids made a bouquet of flowers and herbs.

After they made the bouquet, the kids could go dig for earthworms. 

Needless to say the boys rushed through their bouquets to find worms.  I think only girls dug far enough to actually find any.

After lunch the kids joined for a group photo.  Drew is at the bottom right.

It was great to be able to chaperone this year on two of the three field trips!  It worked out to be the first and last field trip, and I hope to do it again next year when he starts Kindergarten at his new school!