Field Trip!

Today was a very busy, tiring day.  We had our first field trip today to a farm located down the road.  My first graders really enjoyed it.  They got to see many farm animals, go on a tractor ride, and see an animal/puppet show.  Sadly, I can't do many of these activities with my students because of my crazy allergies, I'm pretty much allergic to everything that we saw.  I have been there many times in the past, as this is a common place to go for a field trip, we haven't been there in about 3 years but they still remember me as the one that is allergic to everything!

To make it easier to spot each other on our field trip, each classroom tie dyed shirts in their own colors!  Of course my shirts had to be teal, hot pink, and orange (if you ever saw pictures of my classroom, you would see why I had to have these colors)!  

Coming back from a field trip and still having almost three hours of school left is a real challenge, especially since you can't go outside because the students in grades 3-5 are taking a benchmark test.  We really picked a good day for our field trip, on testing days we have no resources and can only leave our classrooms to go to lunch.  We spent the remaining part of our day doing fun math and literacy centers that we never get to do.  One of our centers, is our Farm Animals Roll and Write activity that I created.  This game is really cute and fun!  Each student rolls a dice and then they match the number on their dice to the animal on the sheet.  They have to write a story about the animal that they rolled, perfect activity to do this afternoon.  You can grab this freebie from my TeachersPayTeachers store.  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/On-The-Farm-Roll-and-Write-1184445

Tomorrow is Wednesday, that means I have 7 more school days until Spring Break!  Yes, I have not had a Spring Break yet and have been envious of those that have already had theirs.


Amber