field trip

Today we went to the pumpkin patch. It was the first field trip that I had planned, organized, and implemented, and I was concerned about it working out. After a few hitches, things went pretty smoothly. We had a lot of time, and not that many things to do. I was really worried about this, but we decided to just walk around, even though some of the teachers didn't see the point in this. That was actually one of the best parts of the entire field trip. I've decided that field trips work best when they are slow and the kids have lots of time to explore what they are looking at. After all the work and energy and worry that I have put into this, I'm so grateful that it went so well. One of the things we need to work on is the assumption that students should never get dirty. There were some really great activities that the kids would have loved, but they may have become dirty, so we couldn't do it. Really, since when has it become awful that 4-year-old children get dirty? It's ridiculous.