A Day of Walking

A great little give is to volunteer in the class room. It's fun, your children love it, It gives you a chance to meet kids and parents and it allows the school and teachers to do more activities!!!

This is how my day went...

Today was my Second graders field trip and I decided to be a parent volunteer. We met at the school at 9:00. Everyone put their lunch in a cooler and put a little sunscreen on and we were off!!!
Four teachers, 10 parents and 80 kids...

First off we walked to the library. The librarian read a cute story and gave us a tour of the library. Then we walked to Harmons. My favorite part was the bakery. They gave all the kids a hair net and then they showed us how to frost cakes. The lady was very good!!! She frosted a hamburger cake and a watermelon cake!!! It looked really fun and it's something I really want to learn how to do!Then we toured the rest of Harmons...It really was interesting! Did you know they cut their meat fresh everyday and do not sell day old meat? (now, I know why I like Harmons better than anywhere else. They really do have the best produce and meat departments) They gave us all a cupcake and a balloon and we off to walk to the park!!!

At the park we ate lunch and then the kids played for a hour. It was nice, because I knew quite a few of the Mom's and we had fun talking. After the park we walked to the fire station.

There we divided into three groups and were given a tour of the fire engine, ambulance and fire station. I must say it was pretty entertaining, and I got a few laughs!!! The fire man asked "If any of the kids knew how fires started?" One little kid said "By sparks" and the fireman said "Well, that's kind of right but how do sparks start?" another kid answered with "Sparks start by fire" Then finally one little girl raised her hand and said " Well, I don't want you to think I smoke, cause I don't. But sometimes fires get started by cigarettes" Some of the things these kids say...It must be pretty funny being a teacher.

After the fire station we were back to walking... It cooled down a little and it was actually nice not having the sunshine around...We ended up getting back to the school at 3:15. It was a really fun field trip...I can't wait till Colton's in second grade, so I can go on the walking field trip again!!!