First Grade Field Trips

[Anonymous]

PreK - the zoo by Metrobus
2nd-5th - 2 kids - Air and Space, US Capitol, US Botanical Gdns, Museum of the American Indian, Supreme Court, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, war memorials on the Mall all by Metro
5th - Lincoln’s cottage and Fredrick Douglass’s house by bus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zoo is great for metro since both green and red lines work.

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.

My kids' school several times starting at PreK4. They'd walk from school to Fort Totten, take metro to CH, walk to the back entrance, walk thru the zoo, return to Fort Totten via red line. The best field trip. Those little legs were so tired out by afternoon they'd sleep like a rock. Kids will walk if the adults are in shape enough to take them!

[Anonymous]

The one room schoolhouse near Poolesville hands down!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

My K kid is doing this soon and I'm excited! I actually hope I can join them for that one.

Which library will do these tours? That sounds great!

In DC, any public library (closest to the school) will work with a DCPS school to schedule a field trip.