Monterey Bay Aquarium

Fish, Fish, Everywhere! I couldn't believe all the different fish we saw at the Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Apple Picking

We went to Tehachapi to pick apples at Pulford's Apple Farm!

Rose Field Trip

Our Science co-op went to visit Week's Roses near Wasco.

Fair Time

We entered things into the Kern County Fair!

California Area Living Museum

After studying a lot of animals in science, we went to CALM. We saw a pelican. We saw a lot of snakes. We saw two bears eating dead fish. It was so gross. We saw some turtles. They were fun. We saw a lot of birds. We got to feed the goats. We saw a fox sleeping. It was so cute. We played on the playset at the end.

Columbia State Park

When we went to Columbia, we dressed like people in the 1850s.

Columbia State Park is an old gold town like in the 1850s. We each got a little book about Columbia and had to go through the town and find the answers to the questions in each little place. We learned a lot about what a town was like back in the gold mining days.

We got to go to school like it would be in the 1860s. We learned how boys and girls sat on opposite sides of the school house, how the students had to do chores, and how they had to stand when they answered the teacher's questions. They did a lot of reading outloud.




We also learned about the early fire department and saw a big cistern under the street. We saw an old, old fire engine that the people actually had to pump by hand to get the water up from the cistern and into the hose. We also had to work together on a bucket brigade to haul water. It was fun but hard work. Some people got really wet!


We had lunch there and then got to play around by the chickens and on some of the old wagons.

The part we really liked was mining for gold. This old guy showed us how to use a gold pan to find gold in the bottom of the dirt.

I found a lot of pretty rocks but not much gold.

This was one of my favorite field trips.

Dewars Ice Cream Field Trip

We got a field trip to Dewars Ice Cream in downtown Bakersfield.

First we put hair nets on. Then we went to see were they made Dewars chews. They were making almond chews the day we were there.

They used 50 pounds of marshmallow, 25 pounds of almonds and a lot of sugar and corn syrup. Then they rolled it up and put it in a machine and that machine rolled it out and cut it and wrapped it. They poured out into a box at the end of the belt.

As we left the candy place he gave us an almond chew.














Then we went to their freezer where they put the ice cream after they make it. It was 10 degrees below zero. We got to put our hand in it. It was soooo cold. They keep the ice cream in this big freezer for a few days to get it really frozen.













Next we went to where they made ice cream. On the day we were there, they were making peppermint and strawberry ice cream. They crunched up peppermint candies and put it in the ice cream. It looked really good.













Lastly, we got to get a scoop of ice cream. I chose chose chocolate ice cream and my friend Jordyn chose strawberry. It was a fun ending to the field trip!