What an amazing adventure for the children and you captured the awesomeness of that cave! I can just know how the kids' imagination and curiousness were teased, as I remember my own experiences growing up. And thank heavens for strong shoulders of dads... they were made so to carry their daughters when needed, lol!
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Thanks for sharing your week, and take care @enginewitty. 🌺🤙
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I've chaperoned just about every field trip my kids have gone on and can't say it bores me! I am curious, since you mentioned it (sort of) what their main take away will be from the experience.
As you are very involved in your kids' activities, you are very aware that children, in general, need to have a variety of experiences... I think that the wider the variety, the better. In looking back to my learning as a school-age kid, I know now that the experience need not be out of the extra-ordinary. It can be a trip to the grocery store or a sophisticated department store, a community garden or an arboretum, watching the stars during clear nights or a trip to the planetarium, swimming underwater or visiting an aquarium.... everything and all contribute to our learning... children and adult alike. I continue to learn from visiting other places and seeing new things. I think that some of the things we learn in school are one-dimensional. The field trips you have chaperoned are really great because they are multisensory experiences, and often times bring all other learning and past experiences of the children to life! In addition, it brings the concepts they learned in their homes and in school into a more holistic level. There were numerous times that, as a child, I felt more confident and smarter about the little world around because of the experiences outside my home and the classroom.
Thanks for engaging me on this subject matter. I am so very glad to share my thoughts with you, @enginewitty.