Proud of my daughter and her preschool class today. Had their first field trip, this one to the Public Library. Another parent and I went along.
Kids did great, even with a really strangely assembled tour. For whatever reason, the person they picked as a guide took us all to the different return points in the library and showed the kids the processes for getting books back to the shelf. I'm a dork, and I thought it was sort of interesting, but I'm not 4.
I got the distinct feeling from some verbage struggles the guide had trying to alter her description for a young audience that she had about 5 minutes notice or less, and really hadn't done this sort of thing before.
Still, I got to hang in the library with Z, we checked out some books, and read some right when we got home. That's a win.
I always went as a chaperone to kids field trips, except the ones that my wife taught. Worst was a fossil hunt by Rockford iowa. A strange kid walks up to me (2nd grade) and just starts screaming. I am just confused and am glad he's not in my group, I have my daughter and a couple more girls.
While fossil digging on some very soft hills with some steep drops, the one teacher asks if I could watch screamer. I say ok and ask where he is, another boy tells me he fell down this steep incline, I look down and sure as crap he's down there. I'm thinking, thanks a lot Linda (the teacher) as I shimmy down the hill to get him. Get to the top and the douchebag "accidentally " drops his fossil bucket back down and says he needs to go get it. I tell him to get his rear over to Linda and I will go back down. Every step the ground would give out so you had to move fast, I was gassed at the end.