We took our first field trip to the Chatfield Botanical Gardens. I was thrilled when I realized that all my kids could fit in my mini-van (I put Megan in the front - don't judge - its legal... I checked).
I told them we were going to a "forest". They were so excited. It was a great way to finish up our unit on trees, leaves, forests, and fall.
Some of the field trip was structured and some wasn't. They all had these blue bags to collect leaves, flowers, sticks, rocks or whatever treasures they found. I brought scissors and clippers to cut branches and flowers. Those were a BIG hit.
We studied an old tree stump with some insects living in it.
We did an observational drawing of their favorite tree.
We did some bard rubbings from 3 or 4 different trees - of course discussing the different properties of the bark. We also did a few more leaf rubbings.
At the end we all laid out our treasures and made a collage of our trip.
Then we ate lunch. It was such a wonderful trip and I had a blast with these cute kiddos out in the "real world". I hope to do another field trip soon!
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