Pomerleau Family Blog: 1st Grade Field Trip to the Zoo

Saturday, June 9, 2018

1st Grade Field Trip to the Zoo

There are way fewer opportunities for parents to get to go to 1st grade events than in kindergarten. It seemed like almost every month there was some sort of activity that the parents got to go to from the field trip to Baggenstos and the Halloween party in October, to the gingerbread decorating day and Christmas party in December, to the Valentine's day party in February, the 100th day celebration in February or March, and other various end of the year activities and festivities. There were only a few opportunities for parents in 1st grade and so when Brandon's teacher asked for volunteers to go with the first graders to the zoo I jumped on it. I was able to use my paid community service hours from my work too which was nice. We left in the morning on the bus and I got assigned to three kids-Brandon, his good pal Riley, and Damien a kid in his class. I pretty much let the 3 kids decide where they wanted to go. We started off going through the Africa side of the zoo and the kids got to see the bats, crocodiles, giraffes and other African animals before we all met at the lawn for lunch. After lunch, we headed back to Africa as the kids wanted to play on the Safari car. It was fun but super crowded at the zoo that day as there were lots of other schools there too. After that we did a loop back to the Pacific NW and saw the bears, some monkeys, the blue duck, and other animals. We eventually met up with Brandon's teacher, Mrs. Lambert, and I got a cute picture of them. I had a cute girl named Rowen who wanted to sit with me both ways so that was nice. It was a fun day and I was glad to spend it with Brandon and his classmates.