Field Trip

A few days ago I got a phone call from Emma's teacher at school.  She said that she didn't know what my schedule was like, but wondered if I would be able to come help at their field trip to the Remington Carriage Museum on Wednesday.  She then said, "Emma said that you're just bored during the day and that you just sit around on the computer waiting for her and Ben to come home."  Ha! Ha!  We both got a good laugh out of our kid's perceptions of what we do when they aren't around.  I agreed to come, and Emma was thrilled to find out that I would be a helper.

There were two Grade 1 classes that went in the morning, so they split the classes up and then each class got split into four groups.  I took Emma's group.  Our first activity was getting to 'build' wagons.  There were four different wagons that we took turns building and trying to beat our times.  Some were quite tricky.  This one was the easiest by far!  

Once we had them built, we had to go into the museum and find 'our' wagon that we'd just built.  Thankfully, ours was an easy one to find!

They then took all of us to each wagon and explained what they were used for.  The kids got some time to just explore after that.

Our next activity was going on a carriage ride.  They took us for quite the ride and the kids loved it.

Then we got to go into the stables and meet one of the horses.  Emma had a bit of a meltdown (only because I was there...) when she didn't get a turn to brush the horse.  I didn't handle it as well as I should have and got very frustrated that she had to put on a show for her entire class.

Unfortunately, they wanted to do a group picture right after that and she didn't want to be in the picture because her 'eyes were red'... She made it into the picture, but only because her teacher went to stand beside her.

Within minutes after this picture she was smiling and happy again.  Oh the drama!  She was still very happy that I'd come with her and was excited that we got to sit together on the bus.