Field trip to Renfrew

On Wednesday this week, our class took our field trip to Renfrew Park in Waynesboro.

We got to explore nature in the morning and after lunch we took a tour and learn alot about the big farmstead and living 200 years ago.

Ring around the "grandfather tree"

Our tour guide Laughing Tree told us that this tree was called the Grandfather Tree and challenged us to see if we could hold hands, make a circle, and make it all the way around.
Later on that morning, I had to take a student back to the bathroom and we walked past the Grandfather Tree. The following convo ensued between my student and the tree.
"Hi, Granddaddy Tree! Have you been seeing a lot of kids walk past you today?"
(pause to listen to tree....)
"Oh, that is so nice. I bet you really like kids, huh?"
(pause again to listen to tree's reponse...)
"How many squirrel families live with you in that tree?"
(pause, pause, pause...)
"Wow! 8 families! That is like an apartment complex!"


hahaha I LOVE children's imaginations :-)

Listen to the sounds of nature

When this exercise began, I leaned over and told Isaac that I hoped he didn't hear the sounds of the beach when he listened to the woods. When we were finished and Laughing Tree asked the kids what sounds in nature they heard, Isaac raised his hand and said, "Mrs. Eckenrode's voice" LOL

"muddy ice cream sundaes"

Looking through our kaleidoscopes that we created by finding different colors of nature and placing them in a dish at the bottom of the tube.

the kids LOVED spending the day with Miss Bergan and Miss Naylor again

Landen playing hopscotch. The kids were tickled pink to discover that they already knew how to play a game that kids use to play back in the "old days"

Carly taking a breather moment

Evan dug right into this book while all the other boys around him began to dress up in their olden day clothes

Ok, seriously, who thought that the boys were actually going to pretend to use the handkercheifs in their apron and pants pockets? LOL

Alexis playing dress up with the girls' clothing

making quilts

the secret staircase disguised into the perimeter wall