Field Trip!

On Wednesday, the first grade took a field trip to Joe Huber's Family Farm. It's my favorite field trip every year, and I was so excited to share it with Andrew and his friends this fall. We start with a wagon ride out to the field where Farmer Joe talks to the kids about the history of the farm, apples, and pumpkins.

After listening to Farmer Joe, we got to find our way through the corn maze.

At the end of the maze, was the pumpkin patch where the kiddos got to pick pie pumpkins. In all the years I've been bringing first graders, this is the first time the kids found HUGE pumpkins. Of course, my son found one of the biggest.

The wagons picked us back up and took us on a tour of the farm. Then they brought us back to bus to drop off our pumpkins and we headed into the big barn for lunch. The absolute best thing about this field trip is that our lunch is included - fried chicken, green beans, dumplings, fruit salad, and fried biscuits - all you can eat buffet. That's why we had 29 kids and 18 chaperones (Tony included). Lunch is always amazing!

After lunch, the kids got to play on the playground for a little bit before we headed home. Thanks to some persuasion from Tony, my teaching partner and I both went down the big barn slide, much to the delight of our students.

The best part? Besides meeting our social studies and science standards, the whole trip only costs the kids $10 each.

Here's the newest update from my kitchen: cabinets are painted, probably doing the counters tomorrow. Since finding my dishes and food are a challenge, we've done lots of fast food and cold cuts and eating off paper plates.

Finally, here's a little video of how big Sophie's getting. She talks nonstop, in complete sentences. I couldn't get her to talk as much in this video, but she does do her adorable pig imitation.