Field Trips

The end of the school year has come with some opportunities for the girls to experience new things and I was blessed to be able to take of of work to go along.

Megan's 5th grade class loaded up in buses and drove to Philadelphia. We had a great tour guide and got to see the liberty bell, a print shop, Ben Franklin's grave, Christ Church, and then we had a tour of Independence Hall. We slowed down our pace after we found a great cheese steak place and relaxed for lunch. Megan held hands with friends and thoroughly enjoyed herself exploring Phily.

Bridget's 2nd grade class had a science field trip to the Benjamin Banneker Park. She learned about local opossums and turtles with her class. Next we talked about invasive species and they played a game were she was mustard garlic and, she and her friend Ava took over the whole forest. Then we played a migratory bird game, in which different flocks experienced the trials of being a bird in the modern world. Bridget got tagged and ran into a glass building among other things. We hiked from the school to the park and back so we wound up hiking almost 5 miles together.

Then just last week Rachael's 8th grade took buses to Northbay Adventure Camp. She had spent a week here in the 6th grade and loved coming back. Our small group was full of her friends and we started with kayaking in the bay. Then we went to the zip-line. Rachael brought her adventure camera and took video as she went down. We had enough time so I decided to face my fear and make the jump as well. The group played games, and did the ropes course, the giant swing and ended with Rachael dangling happily from the rock wall as the guy doing the bole humored her so she could swim mid air, and have a dramatically slow descent. It was a beautiful day, with a beautiful group of girls.