Two and Three year olds go on a "field trip"

During the summer at our preschool we have lots of school age kids on top of the normal enrollment we have on a day to day basis. As a result, the school agers and the 4 & 5 year olds go on field trips and trips to the park and pool on a regular basis. The little kids don't go because with their age we would need lots of parents to go and it is hard to get that many to volunteer. Terasa Leel is the teacher of the 3 year olds and some of the older 2 year olds-Lydia and Emily are in her class. (We have a lot of two year olds at our center and I could not have all of them in my room--therefore they moved some kids around to accommodate all of them). Terasa and I decided to take a mini field trip with her kids and mine. Since we could not leave the school grounds we decided to have a mini-field trip on the school grounds.

The big kids go on their field trips in a small school bus we own. Terasa and I loaded all of our two and three year olds on the school bus and drove them around the parking lot for about 10 minutes so they would think they were going somewhere. They were so excited about riding the school bus!! At one point, when driving around the parking lot, Lydia says "Mommy, why we passing the van?" Of course we thought we could outsmart our kids by driving them around the building a few times. Lydia noticed her van too many times to think she was going anywhere:).

Once off the bus, we hooked up a sprinkler and had them run through the sprinkler for about 45 minutes, we went up on the playground to play while they dried off a bit and then brought their specially packed lunches (for our field trip) up to the picnic tables and they ate their packed lunches outside!

After lunch, we went inside to change the kids out of their bathing suits and lay down for a nap. All but about 2 of the 20 kids that went on the "mini-field trip" passed out within about 5 minutes of laying down. It was a fun day! Terasa and I have decided we would like to do this again, but we are going to re-coup a little bit before tackling it:) Lydia and Emily, along with all the other kids, had a great time!!