Pumpkin Patch field trip

Yep. It's true. Last Wednesday the Pre-K kids hopped on their first school bus and went on their very first field trip. I love being with kids when they do something for the first time. They really are clueless to how the world works, and when they learn something new, it is so neat to see their faces light up. We drove about ten miles from Sunshine and went to a place called Lombardi Ranch. The tour guide was a hoot. As she was giving our group the animal tour, she would ask what kinds of foods we got from the different animals. At the cow, she told them that this is where we get hamburgers, steak, and milk from. From the chicken, this is where we get chicken nuggets from. The pigs, bacon and sausage and porkchops...on and on with the animals. Now, we have tried to tell the kids these truths before and they look at us like we are the looniest people on earth. They even tell us how silly we are for thinking that. I still don't think they understand the whole process- luckily she spared them all of the gorey details, that could've been bad. So we get to the part about pollenation of vegetables, and she opens up the blossom of a flower and starts talking about the male and female anatomy of these plants. It's kind of funny, because the kids have absolutely no clue what she is talking about, but all of the teachers and parent helpers were kind of giggling about it. We got to go into a petting farm, and that was pretty funny. The kids were timid at first, because goats and sheep are not animals that are usually interacted with, and many of them probably had never even seen a living goat or sheep before. But then some of the boys found that they could kind of herd them by running around in circles. That had to be stopped quickly because the animals were getting all riled up and visions of Animal Farm came rushing back to mind. They loved it though. Some of them laughed a lot, some of them gave the goats hugs, it was memorable.
Good times at the Pumpkin Patch.