Learning how to cross in crosswalks safely.
Earlier in the month, we practiced pedestrian safety outside Brookside. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to help us learn how to travel safely along and across streets and in parking lots. We put this information into practice on our walk back from our Shaw Farm field trip at the end of the month.
Parking lot safety is so important!
We are so lucky to have wonderful volunteers! We were glad to have two fifth grade friends join us in the safety lessons.
We finished the month of May with a special field trip. We started by being bussed to Chelmsford High School to watch Tom Chapin and Friends in a music performance. We were the first school there and had fantastic front row seats!
Waiting for the show to begin.
Trying to patiently wait for the rest of the audience to arrive.
Almost time for the show.
Curious about the instruments.
Tom and his friends performing on stage.
When the show was over, Tom came into the audience with his autoharp.
The children had a great time singing along with Tom Chapin and his friends. Tom and his friends were impressed that they knew the sign language to Family Tree. The children were surprise that his goodbye song to the audience was the goodbye song we sing at the end of the day in our classroom! (I learned the song from him!)
After the concert, we got back on the bus and headed back to Dracut to Shaw Farm. When we arrived at the farm, the children got to take turns feeding the donkey and petting the baby calves.
Meeting the donkey.
They could only pet the adorable calf.
They also got to go into the barn and see the grown milk cows and learn all about how they care for the cows and get the milk.
Wally Biedron taught the children about cows and answered all their questions.
Waiting to go into the barn
Everyone got a turn to feed the donkey.
Brian feed the donkey.
After they saw the animals, the students got to eat a picnic lunch and have a short recess.
We took the time for a class photo in front of the tractor with our fantastic chaperones! Then we carefully crossed the street to the farm store where we met Lindy Shaw who gave them a special tour to see where the milk is processed and the ice cream is made.
Learning how the milk going into the bottles.
We were lucky we came on a day when they weren’t bottling the milk.
Lindy explained how her brother Mark makes ice cream.
The ice cream making machines!
After our tour, the students got their ice cream and quickly joined the other second graders to eat their yummy cups of ice cream. Before long, it was time to walk back. We were very fortunate to have our school resource officer, Officer Quealy, and another Dracut police officer escort our second graders with two police cars for our walk back to Brookside. Then they surprised us by letting the students climb into the police cars to see what they were like inside. They even turned on the lights and sirens for us! I think the children really enjoyed their field trip and I’ll take a guess that they probably slept pretty good that night!
Thank you to the parent chaperones, Lindy Shaw, Wally Biedron and everyone at Shaw Farm, and Officer Quealy and his fellow police officer for making our field trip such a success!
Thanks again for posting all of the pictures and updates! You definitely make learning fun for our kids!