By the time October comes around, school is well under way. Schedules are set, patterns are established, and fall is here. With fall comes so many great things. Some of these are brightly colored trees, fall sports, and apples. School has been going on for over a month, and the students have already learned many things.
In third grade, Mrs. Anderson’s class has been learning about plants and trees and how they are pollinated by bees in science class.
Last Wednesday, the class took a field trip to Robinettes Apple Farm. Here they did a lot of fun things and learned a lot. One of the things they did was go on a wagon ride around the farm and get a tour of the place.
On the tour they learned that the Robinette family has lived on the apple farm for over 100 years. The students even got to meet Mr. Robinette himself. The guide told them that Mr. Robinette often spends some of his time picking up English walnuts that come from the English walnut trees around his house. They also saw the bee hives that Robinette has and saw for themselves how bees are useful for pollinating plants and making honey. Later the third graders each got to pick one apple and put it in an old apple press to see how the Robinettes used to make apple cider.
They also got to go to the main building where the cider press, store, and restaurant are. In the store section, donuts, apple cider, bread, and gourmet caramel apples are for sale. In the restaurant, people can buy soup and lunch. The highlight of the trip was when the class went into a one-room schoolhouse and got to have free apple cider and donuts. Everyone loved the donuts especially. This fun time gave the third graders a chance to get away from school for a day and learn some practical ways that the things they have learned in school apply to the real world.
Megan Mitchell, Junior
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