H and B's first preschool field trip...........

...........................on a school bus no doubt (another first).

The above pic was taken a soon as the school bus started moving. They were SO excited. I took the morning off from work and played chaperone with the Over in the Meadow preschool class.
We ended up at the Eplegaarden Orchard for some apple picking.

Leading up the the trip they spent the week doing all sorts of apple projects, reading books about apples and doing some taste tests. On a board near their reading circle was a graph with each child's name and then across the top were 4 types of apples. Each apple had a different color apple sticker and the heading was "What type of apples we like". While some kids didn't have a single sticker next to their name(meaning they didn't like any of them), B and H had theirs full. Shocker,huh?

Getting instructions from the owner such as; no climbing the trees, no eating apples that had fallen on the ground and directions how to snap the apple from the branch. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised to see the majority of the 3 year olds listening quietly and paying attention.

Once she let us go, Henry grabbed one hand and Bryn had the other as we hiked up to find our allotment of two apples per kid.




Miss Sally, Miss Rachel and Miss April keep busy with this bunch.