One of the perks of being a Kindergarten teacher (besides having long holiday breaks and the whole summer off) is that you get to go on field trips. A few weeks back we took our Kindergarten classes to Silverman's Farm. The bus ride there was less than ideal as the driver got lost, and I got horrible motion sickness. However, once we arrived it was a lot of fun. We took a hayride (although I'm not sure why it is called that as there was no hay on the tractor) and saw all the beautiful tress with changing leaves from the top of the hill. After that we were all able to pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. Then came everyones favorite part of the trip, the petting zoo. They have tons of animals on the farm and they give you a huge bucket of feed and cups so you can feed the animals. Before the trip each student does a "report" on an animal from the farm. Animals such as pigmy goats, American buffalo, Emu, Alpacka, sheep, regular goats and peacocks are some of the animals they have. This is so fun for the kids because when they get there they know about the animals they are seeing and they say things like "oh this is an Alpacka, that was John's animal." It's really cute. It was a lot of fun to feed all the animals, especially they pigmy goats. They were hoping onto parts of the fence and balancing on them while we fed them. So cute. After feeding the animals and washing our hands we sat down to a nice picnic lunch. That is until the bee's showed up and scared everyone forcing us to pack up and have the kids finish their lunch on the bus. Our school has been going to the farm for several years and the people who run the farm really like our group. So much so that this year they gave all the teachers a box of their apple cider doughnuts and an amazing apple pie to take home. A-Ma-Zing!! It was a great field trip!
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