First Grade Field Trips
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Anonymous
| Where did you go? Preferably via public transportation for minimal cost. If you had a K-2nd grader in the pre-COVID times, what were the best field trips? |
Anonymous
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If memory serves, The Kid Museum (now accessible via public transportation) and a national park that was near the school for a walk in the woods.
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Anonymous
| Postal Museum near Union Station. Kids metro’d in on the red line. Lots of parent chaperones. |
Anonymous
| In PK-1st, I can remember my kids went to US Botanic Garden, Phillips Collection, Dance Place, Air and Space Museum, National Zoo, Museum of African Art, and the Freer (both kids didn't visit all those places, and not all in same year!) |
Anonymous
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Second postal museum, also: Zoo, Glen Echo (if group is 20 or under, you can take metro to bus without too much trouble), Kennedy Center (a lot of walking and you need some awareness so better with slightly older kids -- would not take kindergarteners). I've also heard that some of the tours at the Arboretum are wonderful. Public transportation there is hard but I have also heard that they will provide transportation sometimes.
Also, if I could share in your crowd sourcing: what have people's experiences been with field trips to art museums in the area with younger kids (K or 1st grade)? I'd like to organize something for my kid's class this year but when I mentioned it to the teacher she said they'd struggled in the past to make that work. Anyone done this? There are so many great museums it seems like many of them must have good programming for kids. |
Anonymous
| The fire department. Dance Place. |
Anonymous
The Phillips Collection has had some more involved partnerships with certain public schools but offers tours to all that are designed for different ages: https://www.phillipscollection.org/school-tours African Art Museum https://africa.si.edu/education/plan-a-field-trip Air and Space Museum https://airandspace.si.edu/learn/plan-field-trip Postal Museum https://postalmuseum.si.edu/guided-experience US Botanic Garden https://www.usbg.gov/field-trips#instructor-led%20hands-on%20lesson |
Anonymous
| Zoo is great for metro since both green and red lines work. |
Anonymous
Who is walking first graders a mile each way to and from the Zoo and using the Columbia Heights station? Bus is better for getting to the entrance on that side. Woodley Park and Cleveland Park are about equal distance walks to/from the Connecticut Ave entrance, about 1/2 mile. |
Anonymous
| By far the best field trip my first grader took was to the local library. School is a few blocks from the library, so they just walked there. The librarian took them "behind the scenes" and they saw how the book drop works, got to use the scanner themselves to check out a book, etc. It was so simple, but my 5th grader still talks about it as one of her favorite field trips. |
Anonymous
My K kid is doing this soon and I'm excited! I actually hope I can join them for that one. |
Anonymous
| Kingman Island |
Anonymous
Which library will do these tours? That sounds great! |
Anonymous
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in K:
- A supermarket (they got swag, a snack, age-appropriate nutrition education) - An artisan store owned by a parent (I think it was a bakery or a restaurant?), - airport |
Anonymous
| national children's museum dc - they do some free field trips and workshops for local title 1 schools |