Field Trip to the Bear Farm

Yes, you read the title correctly. We took about 25 small children to the bear farm last week for an LCI field trip! It was the first field trip I've been able to go on since switching to teaching at LCI in the mornings. It was great to be out of the school for part of the day and doing something outside, and you could tell all the students just had a blast. I think the "Bear Farm" would have been a little more exciting in the summer, there were a lot of run down areas and empty swimming pools. But we did see bears, as promised!



Entrance to the Bear Farm. Random, right? Random Bear Farm Scenery Picture #1



Easter Island, or Osan Bear Farm? Random Bear Farm Scenery Picture #2



Random Bear Farm Scenery Picture #3



The first activity: grass sledding. This was actually pretty fun and the kids just went bananas for it. There were metal tracks secured in the grass that the sleds ran on and you actually got going pretty fast!



It's a race!



Clara and I, she was too small to ride by herself!



Brianna with one of her favorite students, Mimi.



Nick, one of the newer teachers, with Clara and Jenny.



Katie with Peach. She calls her Peachy Pie she is so adorable!



Another of the new teachers, Ian with Clara and then Josh in the background.





This looks dangerous.....



Clara and her boys! She's obsessed with them and already boy crazy at age 4! :)



The LCI group! Clara and I are in the front, and I'm pretty sure I missed the memo on the funny faces!



Yeriel and Jenny, two of Amy's students. Now they have Ian Teacher instead of Amy Teacher!



And now we get to the main event! There were 4 Asian black bears in a little caged area and we fed them animal crackers for 10 minutes. I don't even think the kids were that impressed! I thought it was pretty cool to see them though, you forget what wild animals like that look like in real life.



Antonio and Caesar- sleepy boys on the way home!