Yesterday I got to help chaperon the kindergartner's trip to the pumpkin patch. It was incredibly fun and incredibly exhausting!
If you have, have had, or will have a child in kindergarten, give that teacher chocolate and a gift certificate for a massage. Trust me, they deserve it. Five year olds have to be some of the funniest people in the world. They're also a little scatter-brained, which adds to the overall fun of a five year old. Releasing close to 200 five year olds into a field full of pumpkins is chaos waiting to happen. It's like releasing wind up mice. The go in all directions and even loop around a bit. And the adults are the cats frantically trying to catch them. It has to be hysterical for the farmers.
Eventually they all picked a pumpkin and loaded back into the hay ride. Then we headed to the barn to terrorize a few animals before releasing them into a field full of silo's made into playground slides. They all eventually ran out of steam and trudged wearily back to the bus. Thankfully we left with all of the children we came with (I think).
We all rode back to school nearly silently, exhausted from the experience. A lot like this poor terrorized pony.
It was a day well played with the added bonus of an extra pumpkin on the mantel .
Yesterday I got to help chaperon the kindergartner's trip to the pumpkin patch. It was incredibly fun and incredibly exhausting!
If you have, have had, or will have a child in kindergarten, give that teacher chocolate and a gift certificate for a massage. Trust me, they deserve it. Five year olds have to be some of the funniest people in the world. They're also a little scatter-brained, which adds to the overall fun of a five year old. Releasing close to 200 five year olds into a field full of pumpkins is chaos waiting to happen. It's like releasing wind up mice. The go in all directions and even loop around a bit. And the adults are the cats frantically trying to catch them. It has to be hysterical for the farmers.
Eventually they all picked a pumpkin and loaded back into the hay ride. Then we headed to the barn to terrorize a few animals before releasing them into a field full of silo's made into playground slides. They all eventually ran out of steam and trudged wearily back to the bus. Thankfully we left with all of the children we came with (I think).
We all rode back to school nearly silently, exhausted from the experience. A lot like this poor terrorized pony.
It was a day well played with the added bonus of an extra pumpkin on the mantel .
Looks like so much fun! Fieldtrips are SO stressful for teachers. When I taught in Rockbridge County, we took 120 sixth grade students OVERNIGHT to Baltimore! Ugh.
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