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Middlesettlements Elementary brings the field trip to school
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The front lawn of Middlesettlements Elementary School became a pumpkin patch on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Since students can’t take field trips during COVID-19 restrictions, Maple Lane Farms delivered about 280 of the winter squashes to the school.
Kindergartener Eldon Greene carries a pumpkin during an in-school field trip at Middlesettlements Elementary on Wednesday, Sept. 30. COVID-19 precautions have canceled student trips, so Maple Lane Farms delivered pumpkins to the school.
Students can’t take field trips to farms because of COVID-19 precautions, so Middlesettlements Elementary recreated some of the experience at school on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Teaching assistant Ashley Tindell brought baby goats, ducks, chickens and a rabbit.
The front lawn of Middlesettlements Elementary School became a pumpkin patch on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Since students can’t take field trips during COVID-19 restrictions, Maple Lane Farms delivered about 280 of the winter squashes to the school.
Kindergartener Eldon Greene carries a pumpkin during an in-school field trip at Middlesettlements Elementary on Wednesday, Sept. 30. COVID-19 precautions have canceled student trips, so Maple Lane Farms delivered pumpkins to the school.
Students can’t take field trips to farms because of COVID-19 precautions, so Middlesettlements Elementary recreated some of the experience at school on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Teaching assistant Ashley Tindell brought baby goats, ducks, chickens and a rabbit.
Since students can’t go down on the farm this fall, Middlesettlements Elementary set one up at the school Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Principal Suzanne Graves said the idea started when Maple Lane Farms offered to deliver pumpkins. Then she called Brad Long to bring a hay wagon for rides.
Teaching assistant Ashley Tindell brought in goats, ducks, chickens and a rabbit, and Michelle Fuson came to talk about growing up on a farm.
The Parent Teacher Organization even set up a photo area with cornstalks, mums and more.
“We just made our own on-site field trip,” Graves said.
Typically several grades visit a pumpkin patch and corn maze in the fall. “Obviously, COVID has taken that away from us,” the principal noted, with field trips canceled because of the precautions.
Instead about 280 pumpkins were spread out over the school’s front lawn to create a pumpkin patch, and classroom activities reinforced topics the students have learned the first nine weeks — from the five senses in kindergarten to graphing in older grades.
With apple pie in prekindergarten and fifth graders making pumpkin pancakes, Graves said, “it smelled great in here.”
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