Tara's School Field Trip

I chaperoned a small group of 1st graders which included Tara. We went to Meijer Frederick Gardens to see the butterfly's and sculptures. We were given a clipboard of specific things that we had to find. It's always interesting to watch the kids. They didn't have a lot of interest in the things that we needed to makes notes of. They were way more interested in the tree top playhouse and other play things. If Mr. Spicer was to give us a grade on our completed tasks, it would probably equal around a C. This is not my best work by far but it was really hard to keep them on track.

We started with the butterfly's. I could have spent many hour in here but our priority for our worksheet focused on the sculptures. Here is one of Tara's favorite sculptures:

We did take a little time to play in the butterfly house. They have hands on activities that include puzzles, books, marker boards, scent's, microscopes, and costumes. I think Tara tried on every butterfly costume there.
We found these little critters inside a cabin house designed to give us a feel for life as an early settler. We entered the closed door and was playing an old fashioned checkers game when we noticed these two little creatures in the corner:

I'm not sure but I think they are chipmunks, babies probably. The one was so scared that he peed all over. Poor thing, I would be scared too if a bunch of screaming 6 year olds came running at me.

Anyways, our job was to study the sculptures and to decide which one made us sad, which one made us happy, which one was made from wood, which one didn't we like, which one surprised us, etc. They got side tracked many times. Here Tara took off on a boat race through the giant great lakes display:

That was fun but Tara had her eye on this giant hill the entire time. She was dying to roll down it. I kept telling her no but right before we left, I gave her the ok. Good thing I waited too since she ended up muddy from it.