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Imagine my delight when the permission form came home for Selby's first Kindergarten field trip to a local dairy farm. I signed us both up right away. And last week we boarded a big, yellow school bus and took a bumpy, noisy ride out to the country.
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Experiencing a dairy farm with 5 and 6 year olds was hilarious. They seemed to be mostly focused on the smells and the sizable eliminations of the cows. But me... oh, I was enchanted.
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We fed the calves from half-gallon bottles. The power & appetite of these little ones would make any nursing mother flinch!
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We made fresh butter at a picnic table on the breezy front porch, and sampled it on crackers, along with little cups of farm fresh, whole milk.
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We toured the totally sustainable farm by foot and by hayride, viewing the free roaming cow pens, the milking facilities and process, the fields of grains, and the compost site.
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And then, by some miracle, we were given the gift of watching the birth of a new calf. An advocate of natural birth, I could hardly contain my excitement that not only was I watching this most natural of events, but that rows of school children were witnessing it as well. A collective "eww" rose from the children as the calf finally emerged, followed by a group cheer.
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The mama cow proudly cleaned her new babe as we all quietly crept by for a peek, then left her to bond with her little one. It was a field trip no one will soon forget!
7 comments:
I'm positively swooning. What a magical day!
Wow...what a great gift; the gift of witnessing birth ...on a kindergarten field trip...Awesome
I think that is just the coolest thing ever.
Such a beautiful gift to witness the birth. A most magical and beautiful day indeed. Those kindergardeners don't know how truly enchanting that field trip really was.
Aunt Liz,
I love you and I love your blog. Love, Ethan Trask
what a lovely field trip!!!
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