Field Trips to the Pumpkin Patch

Evelyn and Mitch both went on field trips with their classes this week to Jacquemin Farms.  They were both so excited and I ended up taking off work to chaperone both trips.  I love to be able to do this because a)  I like to see my kids having fun and b) I like to see them interacting with their classmates and teachers.

 

We were extremely lucky to be blessed with perfect weather both days.  Evelyn was bursting with her usual amount of uncontained enthusiasm.  It was actually kind of comical.  I took her to school at 9:00 and we didn’t leave for the pumpkin patch until 9:40 and it took about 20 minutes to get there.  You would have though it took 20 days because Evelyn acted like she hadn’t seen her classmates in that long…lots of squealing, hugging, jumping up and down.  The kids picked their pumpkins out, went to ‘pumpkin school’, ate a pumpkin donut and spent time running through a hay bale maze and digging in dried corn.  They were a mess by the time we took them back to school and I’m not sure how the teachers ever got them calmed down.

 

Thursday, Mitch and I went on his field trip. While it was a fun trip, Mitch enthusiasm was much less than Evie’s.  He can be very shy and he really showed his timid side that day.  He wouldn’t walk with his class  and it took some encouragement from me for him to actually pick out his pumpkin.  He would not sit for pumpkin school or eat his snack unless I sat right beside him.  He more or less clung to me the first half of the trip.  He refused to sit for a class picture so I basically shoved him at his teacher and she held him.  He finally seemed to snap out of it when we got to the hay bale maze.  He seemed to enjoy going down the slides and running around with the other kids.  Miss Teri, his teacher, told me that he is very good at school.  He listens, helps other and is well-behaved.  Thank goodness!

 

All in all, I think the field trips were a great success and a lot of fun!!