travel

usually we take the third graders to the planetarium for our unit on astronomy. however, these kids had gone to the planetarium in first grade and we hadn't found an appropriate trip yet. so when they asked where we were going on our field trip, i told them the least desirable place i could think of: the dump. i didn't get the reaction i anticipated: they cheered. somebody said, "we could go there and gather up things to recycle!" a few days later we had a guest speaker telling us about life in canada and the kids were so excited about canada. malynne couldn't contain herself, "i have a great idea! let's go to canada on our field trip, instead of the dump!!"