Leo's Magic Garden field trip

Shew.  It's been quite a week.  In addition to all our regular activities, we had Open House, a baseball game and the book fair.  Yesterday I went with the second graders on their final field trip of the year.  We took the public bus to the Adult Education campus in Santa Clara where there is a community garden.  The teachers called it the "Magic Garden" and the kids were broken up into groups and lead through the garden by senior citizens volunteer .  There wasn't too much for the parents to do except escort the kids through the neighborhood to the bus stop and ride the bus with them.  It was still exhausting though.

Here are the kids ready to cross the street to get to the bus stop.  The teachers told the kids to wear hats and Leo decided to wear his Arkansas bubba hat.

 Not sure who thought it would be a good idea to have the kids sitting on the curb, but moments after this picture was taken one of the moms freaked out about it and had them all scoot back.  I helped her.

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 On the bus, Leo and I talked about the last time we were on a public bus and remembered that we rode one from Queens to Manhattan when we were in New York in 2013.

 The garden tour started with the group meeting for some rules and information.

 Then he set off with his docent and three of the rowdiest boys in the class.

 Planting seeds.

 Checking out some different kinds of seeds and dirt.

 He liked the snapdragon and some fennel leaves he got to taste.

 Looking for the bus to go back to school.

 Serafina got a special evening with Nana last night and that included a trip to the ice cream store near her house.