Tuesday morning I woke to a soft tapping on my shoulder at 6:20 a.m. I opened my eyes and found Sydney completely dressed and ready in the clothes I laid out for her the night before. "Mommy, get up! Get ready! Today is my field trip!", she tells me as I'm trying to figure out if she is having an asthma attack or a bad dream. We normally don't get up until 7:10 a.m. on school days so she was up about an hour too early. I had to tell her to go play in her room until it was time to wake up. She was disappointed....just like you are when you wake up too early on Christmas morning.
I was lucky to get picked to be a chaperon for this field trip and Sydney was THRILLED that her mom was going to be coming with her. Emma,
Alaura, Sydney, Janelle and Julia were assigned to me for the day. The pink bubble gums. Once everyone was assigned, we loaded up on a "fancy" charter bus for our trip to San Fransisco to the
Exploratiorium.
I have only been to the city a handful of times so I was looking forward to it...until I realized the night before that I was going to be in a bus with 40 kindergartners and 1st graders for two hours during morning traffic. I was quite surprised how well they did. Thank goodness for TVs on buses. You hardly noticed the kids on the bus.
Here's a picture of my girls playing with some cool science thing that I can't remember the name. The kids loved it though. It made a cool sound.
This is a picture of a fun echo tube that stretched across the building. You yelled in the tube and it yelled right back at you.
The three girls on the left are wearing head phone with elk ears attached. This allowed the kids to hear how deer or elks hear. Don't Sydney and
Alaura look like aliens? They are wearing head phones that take sound from the opposite side of the room. Sounds they would listen from the left side were coming from the right and sounds coming from the right they hear on the left.
They had a couple of displays of ACTUAL decomposing rats, mice and birds. I thought for sure it was just an exhibit of bones, but when you looked closely you could see maggots and other icky bugs eating the flesh. YUCKY! They also showed the kids a cow eye. A real cow eye that they
dissected which was OK for the first few cuts into it. All the girls, except Sydney, all started looking a little pale and grossed out once they made the cut into the
lenses. All this black liquid squirted out!
Stopping for lunch. Emma, Sydney and
Jacey.
We ate right next to a pond so we had every kind of water bird you could find trying to get your food. Seagulls, ducks, some other kind of bird and swans. This swan was extremely friendly that he would nip at your booty!
The
Exploratiorium was a fun place to visit. We didn't get through 2/3's of the place so we will have to go back. I had a great little group of girls that are very kind to each other and that stayed close and were good listeners. Until next year!
Tuesday morning I woke to a soft tapping on my shoulder at 6:20 a.m. I opened my eyes and found Sydney completely dressed and ready in the clothes I laid out for her the night before. "Mommy, get up! Get ready! Today is my field trip!", she tells me as I'm trying to figure out if she is having an asthma attack or a bad dream. We normally don't get up until 7:10 a.m. on school days so she was up about an hour too early. I had to tell her to go play in her room until it was time to wake up. She was disappointed....just like you are when you wake up too early on Christmas morning.
I was lucky to get picked to be a chaperon for this field trip and Sydney was THRILLED that her mom was going to be coming with her. Emma, Alaura, Sydney, Janelle and Julia were assigned to me for the day. The pink bubble gums. Once everyone was assigned, we loaded up on a "fancy" charter bus for our trip to San Fransisco to the Exploratiorium.
I have only been to the city a handful of times so I was looking forward to it...until I realized the night before that I was going to be in a bus with 40 kindergartners and 1st graders for two hours during morning traffic. I was quite surprised how well they did. Thank goodness for TVs on buses. You hardly noticed the kids on the bus.
Here's a picture of my girls playing with some cool science thing that I can't remember the name. The kids loved it though. It made a cool sound.
This is a picture of a fun echo tube that stretched across the building. You yelled in the tube and it yelled right back at you.
The three girls on the left are wearing head phone with elk ears attached. This allowed the kids to hear how deer or elks hear. Don't Sydney and Alaura look like aliens? They are wearing head phones that take sound from the opposite side of the room. Sounds they would listen from the left side were coming from the right and sounds coming from the right they hear on the left.
They had a couple of displays of ACTUAL decomposing rats, mice and birds. I thought for sure it was just an exhibit of bones, but when you looked closely you could see maggots and other icky bugs eating the flesh. YUCKY! They also showed the kids a cow eye. A real cow eye that they dissected which was OK for the first few cuts into it. All the girls, except Sydney, all started looking a little pale and grossed out once they made the cut into the lenses. All this black liquid squirted out!
Stopping for lunch. Emma, Sydney and Jacey.
We ate right next to a pond so we had every kind of water bird you could find trying to get your food. Seagulls, ducks, some other kind of bird and swans. This swan was extremely friendly that he would nip at your booty!
The Exploratiorium was a fun place to visit. We didn't get through 2/3's of the place so we will have to go back. I had a great little group of girls that are very kind to each other and that stayed close and were good listeners. Until next year!
2 comments:
Some kind of "cool science thing?"
I really like the pictures of Sydney and her friends. It sounds like a great day. A day well worth getting up early for.
I was thinking "How do they have TV's on their bus?" Then I re-read that they were charter buses! So lucky! What a fun fieldtrip....but I don't think I would have liked the decomposing animals either!
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