Field Trips a.k.a Off-school Educational Activities

I have always been excited about field trips, and you can say I’m more than a bit psyched at my son’s first off-school educational trip. I’m going with him and we’re riding on the school bus along with his classmates and their parents, as well as the teachers at toddler school.

Ideally, these activities must include lunch because the expense is sky high. I think I raised this question at one point and got shot down with “madam, the fees are barely enough to pay for gas” and that was that.

I think the educational trips are more important to smaller kids because they get to see their surroundings with their classmates. This gives them a sense of reality, seeing their classmates in another setting and learning more together.

The activities for toddlers, I learned, are not too complex. They will learn how to bake cakes in a real commercial bakery, how to form pizza dough (and what happens when they put too many toppings), and how to create crafts out of recycled paper and plastic.

It’s not going to be easy managing a bus-full of excited kids and meticulous parents, but I bet it’s going to be fun. Of course, we parents can only dream about going somewhere more exotic than a toy factory. But it’s ok. Now that travel rates are peaking, there are still enough travel discounts like miami vacation package that families can avail of.