Field Trip

On Thursday, the fourth grade at my school was going on a field trip, and I got to go with them as a chaperone. We went to the Museum of Natural History up at the University of Utah. I had heard people talk about how cool it was since they redid it, so I was pretty excited to go. The bus ride up was kind of noisy, but I was surprised that I didn't hear any kids break out in song. I remember that being what we always did on field trips in elementary school. They had three to a seat, so it was kind of squishy, but it was fine.

When we got there, we had to pass out pencils and wristbands and get everyone in their groups. I had six kids in my group which wouldn't have been bad if they were kids that would stay together. I had a couple kids who wanted to be in other groups, so if were a little bit ahead of one group, they would lag behind to talk to their friend; or if we were a little bit behind, they wanted to move on with them. There was also one kid in my group that was always trying to move ahead and go on without us. I had to keep telling him to come back or to wait until everyone was ready to move on. Luckily, the other four were pretty good at keeping together, but I found myself counting heads at least every five minutes.  The museum was really cool though. I kind of want to go back and actually look around for myself without having to worry about losing children.



The view from on top of the museum



The dinosaur exhibit

(Note: I don't know why these pictures have the lines across them. They don't have them on my camera.)