My first year teaching 5th grade is wrapping up, and boy, I am hanging on by my fingernails (as are all the students)! The weather is so nice, and the kids just want to move and play outside. Who can blame them? It means that it is a perfect time for an outside field trip! Yesterday was the day. We bused the entire 5th grade up to beautiful Snow Basin to enjoy a day of hiking, games, and lunch on the lawn. It was PERFECT weather for our trip. Sunny but not too hot, shady for most of the hike without being too cold, and really fun to interact with my students in a less formal setting. Our majestic view of the mountains, and a beaver-made pond in the foreground. It was really cool to see the trees that the beavers had cut down! After the hike, we settled down for lunch, and the kids started pulling out games to play on the grass. Everything was picture perfect, until we heard one of the kids screaming, and running towards the adults, specifically to his mom, who was one of