Kathryn went on her very first field trip today. I'm so glad I was able to go with her. As it turns out, I made a lot of new friends today - her classmates loved me! At one point, there were several little hands fighting over who got to hold my hand. Very nice :)
We went to a farm pretty close to where we live - it only took us about 20 minutes to get there. The kids got to ride a horse (wearing helmets!). It was a very slow ride in a circle, but every child there seemed to love it. After the horse ride, we went on a nature "hike" through the woods. There was a path (you could barely call it a path, really), which was pretty treacherous for a group of 4 year olds. In the middle of the woods, the owner of the farm read a story about trees and had them look around at all the trees (at this point, we were far enough in that all you could see was trees). After the hike, they played some games, which were kind of a flop, but some of the kids liked them. They made a craft (a scarecrow out of a paper bag), ate lunch, then made a real scarecrow. That was the most fun, I think. We broke up into teams - boys and girls and made a pretty funny-looking scarecrow. That took all of 5 minutes, and they spent the rest of the time we were there rolling in the left over hay and throwing it at each other.
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