 | | | | | | Trips Outside Our Building | | Planetarium:
Our district provides the opportunity for every elementary school child to attend our district planetarium once or twice per year.
Public Library:
We take walking field trips every third week on Tuesdays to the St. Paul Public Library just up the street. Each child has a chance to check out books as long as their library account is in good standing. The library does not impose fines on children's books, so it is fine to wait until we go the next time to return books, otherwise you are free to visit and return on your own.
Ice Skating:
Every winter, we take an annual trip down the street to Langford Park for a morning of skating and a lunch out!
Childrens' Museum:
The Childrens' Museum is linked to our communities curriculum. We receive a "district created trunk" to enhance the process of getting an understanding of how communities are built. In our classrooms we create a community of student designed buildings. We call this community "Kid Town". At the end of the unit we'll be visiting the Minnesota Children's Museum. This 2-hour visit includes a 45 minute class called Community Faces and Places as well as time to explore in the six hands-on galleries.
UofM Agriculture Awareness:
In the Spring we walk to the Beef Cattle Barn at the St. Paul campus. The classes will be divided into groups to allow students to go to stations with a  | | Projector at the planetarium |
group leader from the UofM. Each group will spend about 7 - 10 minutes at each station.
District Kitchen:
Along with our social studies unit on communities, and linked to the UofM trip where we learn where food comes from is a trip to our district kitchen, just up the street at 1930 Como Ave. We have a chance to see the huge mixers, vats and ovens where our healthy food is made - the highlight of the trip every year is getting to go into the HUGE freezers - bigger than our classrooms!!
St. Paul Saints Baseball Game:
As part of the reward for reading hard all year, in the spring we get to attend a Saints Game during school hours!!! Read those books!
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