Today, my class went on a field trip to the Whiting Forest. I had never been there before, so it was pretty exciting. We started out with some stories in front of the big fireplace.

Then we got our coats back on and went outside for a nature walk. We looked for different leaves, pinecones, pine needles and tried to find a squirrel (which is kind of hard to do with 20 noisy 4 year olds tromping through the woods!).

We saw some pretty silly things out on the trail, too. These two trees had faces!

We picked up leaves along the way and then climbed to the top of this tower and dropped them over the railing so we could watch them float back down to the ground.

I picked out a very special leaf before we got back from our walk. We split into two groups and each group got to take their leaf and run it through a laminating machine so that we can keep it forever. After we were all done, we went back outside and had a quick snack...pretzel rods!

Boy, I never knew that I'd get to do such fun things when I went to school!