Today my class went on our very first field trip. We went to the library. When we got there, we went downstairs to the kids area and went in to the Story Time room. The librarian had the Investigator help us figure out how to take care of our books. We saw a book that had gotten wet, one that had gotten food all over the pages, one that had gotten its pages dog eared and the corners ripped off, and one that had pages ripped out or colored on. We learned that we want to keep our library books dry, not eat while we're reading, use a bookmark when we have to stop in the middle of a book, and to keep our library books out of the reach of little kids that might color in them or rip the pages.

After that, we learned about the different areas of the kids section of the library. The librarian told us how we would know where the picture books were, the easy readers, the chapter books and the non-fiction books. Then we got to go on a tour and see where all these things were. We also saw where they keep the magazines and the computer games, books on tape/cd, and leap frog books that we can check out.

After the tour, we went on a scavenger hunt. I was in Mommy's group, and we had to find a non-fiction book about whales, an easy reader book by an author whose last name started with R, and a picture book whose last name started with S. And after we found all our books, we got to go back into the Story Time room and pick out a book that we could take home and keep. I chose a book about the Incredibles.

Once everyone was done picking out books, we lined up and got to go up the back staircase and walk through part of the grown-ups part of the library. We had to be very quiet while we were walking there, because we didn't want to disturb and grown-ups who were there looking at books or reading. We waited in the cafe, called the Cup and Chaucer, for our bus to come. It was a little bit late, but we did a very good job of waiting patiently. We stayed in our line and were pretty quiet. Most of us were looking at our new books. The bus finally came, bringing the other first grade class for their library tour, and we went back to school.

Mommy is going to do a better job the next time she goes on a field trip with me. She was great at getting us through our scavenger hunt, but she brought her camera with her and forgot to take pictures!