2nd Grade Field Trip

Alexee's class had a fun and interesting field trip to the College of the Ozarks campus last week.  It started off very rainy, but the sun came out later in the day.  First they toured the dairy barns.  The college has a large Agriculture program.  The kids loved the Maternity Barn because there were several new calves in pens there.  The two tour guides explained the bottle feeding schedule, showed them how they give the calves medicine and then let the kids pet the babies.

The calves were gentle and seemed to like the attention!  The light brown one behind Alexee was just born the day before our visit.

We thought this chicken was funny.  It(?) was roaming around in the barn.

Next they toured the Tractor Museum.

By then it had stopped raining so we were able to walk across campus to the fire house.  

We stopped at "Lake Honor" for a class photo.

The fire station is operated by students.  They respond to calls both on and off campus.  The fire chief answered a lot of questions, and one of the firefighters demonstrated what it was like to put on all the gear in under 60 seconds.

Then they let the kids sit in the fire truck!

Fun group of girls!

The weather was warm/sunny enough by lunch time for them to picnic outside which was nice.  Then the last stop of the day was the Ralph Foster Museum (dedicated to the history of the Ozarks region). 

Alexee and her friend K liked this log cabin model, but they didn't think the bed looked very comfortable!

It was great to get to spend the day with Alexee and her classmates!