posted on November 15, 2000 05:11:01 PM new
I just finished up a "Little House on the Praire" type pioneer costume for my friends daughter who is going on a field trip to an old one room school house friday.
It got me to thinking about the trips our class used to take to Boston Museum of Science and Mystic Seaport and The Freedom Trail.
I was just wondering where they go for field trips in other parts of the country or other countries for that matter.
So what great trips do you remember?
posted on November 15, 2000 05:47:33 PM new
I grew up in Illinois - the Land of Lincoln. We went to the State Museum, Lincoln's house, Lincoln's tomb, one of his log cabins, and to re-enactments of his famous debates.
posted on November 15, 2000 05:58:11 PM new
Well, here in Colorado there are lots of cool field trips. When I was in sixth grade we went to "Outdoor Lab". We got to go spend a week up in the mountains doing nature stuff. Mostly stayed up all night and told ghost stories and had the boys doing panty raids.
The kids now still do that. They also get to go spend a week in Cro Canyon doing geology and archeology stuff. (Ruins and digs.)
We used to go to the Denver Mint, museums etc.
We also went up to Georgetown (an old mining town) and went to the opera.
posted on November 15, 2000 06:27:33 PM new
I remember going to see Richard Chamberlain in Shakespeare's "Richard III" when I was in jr. high. Other than the band trips-once a year we went to Long Beach and Disneyland-I don't really remember other field trips.
Now the kittens, on the other hand...
We've lived in Europe for 9 years and field trips here aren't quite the same as in the US. Elder kitten went to Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and various and sundry places in between. Younger kitten spent time in the Ardennes, the Belgian coast, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, and other various places.
posted on November 15, 2000 07:44:09 PM new
The trip that stands out most is my mind was our band trip to New Orleans. We had reservations at Pete Fountains, and walked there, right down Bourbon Street. My first knowledge of tassels and bar dancers was obtained by looking through the open doors of the bars as we walked by! Needless to say, the sponsors spent a lot of their time herding the boys along!
We also went to see the cemetery while on a tour, one of the old ones with really run down vaults. For weeks, I dreamed about bodies coming out of them at night!
posted on November 15, 2000 08:38:33 PM new
Funny you should mention field trips...I just got a permission slip sent home today...my 5th grader is going on a field trip to the Maui Arts and Cultural Center to see a play next week. If his class is good all year, they get to go on an overnighter 2 day field trip to Oahu. Last year's class got to go on the Oahu trip and went to the governor's mansion and met Governor Cayetano...I want to chaperone that one, although I can't imagine the airplane flight, lol!
My 3rd grader went on a field trip not too long ago to the Maui Tropical Plantation, and then a picnic lunch in Iao Valley, with a stroll through the cultural housing display which depicts the traditional housing and surrounding gardens of the major races here on Maui: Hawaiian (of course), Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Filipino. I chaperoned that one.
Last year I chaperoned 2 field trips...one on a reefwalk and along the beach where the sea turtles come in to lay their eggs, and the other on an extensive hike through a rainforest.
The school where my kids go have lots of field trips... last year 5 per grade througout the year. And I tag along when I can.
posted on November 16, 2000 05:46:26 AM new
Here in western North Carolina a favoured field trip is to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. Additionally the kids go in to the mountains at least once each year from what I can tell -- to visit the Nantahala Nat'l Forest or Pisgah or the Smoky Mountains.
When I was in north central Florida, my daughter visited Silver Springs and the UF stadium each once. Oh -- and the small zoo in Gainesville.
posted on November 16, 2000 10:13:04 AM new
I thought of another one. We didn't get to do this, but the kids now are. They'll take the whole 5th or 6th grade class down to spend the night in the Museum of Natural History. They sleep in the room with the HUGE dinosaur exhibits.
I think that sounds like sooo much fun. Doubt they actually get any sleep, but it's gotta be cool to lie there under a T-rex.
posted on November 16, 2000 12:44:13 PM new
What happens if you roll over in your sleep and knock out the bottom bone and the whole exhibit comes crashing down? lol
posted on November 16, 2000 07:37:50 PM new
We went to the Ford Museum in Dearborn, which was kind of fun. But my favorite trips were the graduation ones to amusement parks to ride the coasters.
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I never had one, and I didn't want one, and I don't, so now I do...
posted on November 16, 2000 08:36:01 PM new
When hubby and I taught in Ft Worth, we were 'woods and water' sponsors. We took our high school kids camping one January, just in time for a blue norther that blew down everyone's tents. They were in too big a hurry to go canoeing to put them up right! We also took them down the Brazos in canoes in the spring when it was up-no one felt the trip was complete unless they swamped their canoe at least once! I loved it!!!
posted on November 17, 2000 01:16:19 PM new
upinthehills: A night spent under the dinosaur bones would have been heaven to me as a kid.
We took my friend's children to see the animated dinosaurs when they were here in Houston and the little one loved it but the older one (6 at the time) was terrified.
It is so interesting to hear what great trips you all got to go on.
posted on November 17, 2000 11:09:32 PM new
The best field trip I ever had was in high school, 9th grade. Our class was bussed from Bakersfield to L.A. for an incredible one-day marathon: in the morning we visited the L.A. Museum of Art, in the afternoon we attended an opera (Barber of Seville) and in the evening we went to a play (Hamlet). The day stands out in my memory. One scene in particular still brings a smile: at the museum there was a painting on display that had a central section surrounded by a border of smaller pictures. One of the border pictures was of a nude man doing a handstand--which, as you can imagine, had us all in high alt. Much giggling and smirks...
posted on November 18, 2000 04:26:31 AM new
Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery (my introduction, at 6, to Pollock and Warhol); Niagara Falls; Old Fort Niagara; Planetarium; and lots of trips to Stratford, ON for the Shakespeare Festival.
posted on November 30, 2000 03:55:24 PM new
I'm from West Virginia, but live close to Maryland and Pennsyvania. We were always told that D.C. (four hours away) was too far, as was the state capitol (5 hours away), but Pittsburgh (3 hours) was a main destination. I was in the gifted class so we had TONS of fieldtrips:
kindergarden: doctor's office for check-ups
first grade: Pittsburgh Zoo
thrid grade: local history museum,
Cranesville Swamp photography training session
fourth grade: my house(how cool is that? My dad cut tombstones for a living and invited the class to see how its done!), West Virginia University, GIFTS exchange started (all students had to do a project which rotated around a theme and all the students in the county met in the library at the county seat all day for presentations. Those days were awesome). watching a bow and arrow demonstratrion,
fifth grade: local newspaper, National Safety Administration, Moundsville West Virginia Indian Mound and Oglesby Oak tree farm (to see them make maple syrup) Gifts Exchange
sixth grade: Old Bedford Village
seventh grade: (the year we needed to decide our future carrer supposedly), a mortuary, zoo (to learn about being a zoo keeper), pharmacy, archeolgist's home
eighth: back to the Mound at Moundsville daily newspaper (one in 4th was a weekly)TV station
senior trip (which I skipped) Kennywood Park , some Christian concert which was pretty boring (I transfered to a Christian School after 9th grade).
College: to the local newspaper again (first time any of us had seen a digital camera!), to some art museums etc
Also, when I was in 5-8 grades, I was eligible to go to computer camp. About 1986 was the first time I was ever on the "internet". We had a modem and talked to some teachers in another part of the state. We thought it was cool. We used basic programing and we all tried to out-do other's programs. One kid had his computer counting to over 1 million by tens before he could figure out how to stop it. Remember the Lemonade game on Atari computers and Fact or Fallacy?
