Field Trip to County Line Orchard!

Our first field trip to County Line Orchard

was a wonderful and educational trip.

 

Mrs. Salmon's Third Graders at County Line Orchard!

We enjoyed spending time in the petting zoo, petting the animals and feeding them hay.  The goats were especially popular since they ate anything you put in front of them.  The turkeys and chickens were a bit of a scare as they loudly clucked at the kids and pecked at their fence.  The cows and miniature horses were fun to see too!
  


 

 

  

  



  

 


 

The kids in front of the turkey and chicken coop.


Then we enjoyed a nice picnic lunch and then onto the tractor ride around the orchard where we learned about how they grow the trees, why the color of apples are different and that there are 28-30 types of apples grown at County Line Orchard.  The kids enjoyed picking out apples, I hope you have been enjoying them at home, they are of the Blushing Gold variety.
  

The whole Third Grade class!



Clive, Valerie, Mary, Trent and Delaney!

Lance, Caroline, Patrick, Maddie and Katie!

Angelina, Oscar, Brendan, Jane, Kaya and Maggie!

 I asked the students to take along their science observations journal and to take notes as they wanted and observed things and I was so blown away by how actively engaged and focused they were.  They spent part of the bus ride to the orchard creating K-W-L charts and thinking of questions they wanted to ask.  Then at the orchard they would find a bench and jot down notes.  They were such young scientists!

This photo was not staged, they were actually this eager to write down
what they were learning on the tour through the orchard!