Last week I had the opportunity to go on a field trip to
Brookfield Zoo with our kindergartners and sixth graders. Every teacher goes into a field trip with
worries, will the kids behave, will the weather be nice, ect. I myself had the same worries; especially
with this being my first time going to the zoo for a field trip. However, from the moment we stepped off the
bus, the 6th graders took over!
They held hands with their buddies, asked them what they wanted to see
and even helped them find animals. It
was so good to see how our sixth grade students took over and watched over
their buddies.
I was AMAZED!
Now I knew we had some pretty awesome 6th
graders, but I did not know they were this amazing. At one point myself and the other parent I was
with looked at each other and said at the same time, “this is the easiest field
trip I have ever helped at!” Not once
did we have to manage behaviors, or figure out where to go next, that was all
up to the 6th graders. They
even gave up seeing some of the animals they wanted to see because the kindergartners wanted to see a different animal.
After this experience, this is definitely a field trip I
would attend every year!
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