Last week, the 14th of March, we had an enjoyable fieldtrip at Equator Bottlers and Impala Park. I’ll let my students tell you a bit about the day:
Written by Hannah Gingerich (grade 2) . . .
On the
morning of the fieldtrip, I very hurriedly got dressed. I was so excited about the fieldtrip, I
forgot to fix my bed and clean my room.
Instead, I got dressed and ran out to the living room. Then I ran to the kitchen and found my mom
there. I asked her, “When are we going
to leave?” She said, “In about 3 hours from now! Would you please start setting the
table?” I set the table and helped my
mom with the food. (By then, 20 minutes
had gone by.) I ate as fast as I could,
then went to play. I hopped on my bike
to ride out into the compound lane and found Brad and Jamie. Brad noticed that I had sandals and said,
“You’re supposed to wear shoes.” I
thanked him and rode home to get my shoes.
About half an hour later we were at the factory. Our guide showed us around and then we went into
a room that had a desk that went almost all around the room. We sat down and drank coke. Once we had our fill, we drove to Impala Park
and met Mom, Marji, and the younger children.
We got our tickets and ate lunch.
Then the children played and the adults talked for what seemed to be a
very long time. When we got home, I ran
to put the stuff I found away. What an
exciting day it had been!
Written by Jeneva Miller (grade 2) . . .
We went
to the Coke factory. There were empty
coke bottles and then they would go around on a machine and the machine would
fill the coke bottles and would put caps on them too. We looked at them for awhile and then we went
to Impala Park. We ate lunch there and
saw lots and lots of monkeys. We saw
pretty many other animals. We also went
to a place where we saw python skins, ostrich eggs, and stuff like that. Then we went home.
Taken from my first graders’ oral rendition of the day (with a few facts added by the second graders) . . . Also, I am very aware that some of these sentences do NOT have the greatest sentence structure, but I typed it as they said it…so enjoy their perspective! :)
Our fieldtrip was so much fun! First we went to this place called Equator Bottlers. We had to wait outside pretty long until we went in. People brought crates of empty glass bottles back. A machine would pull them out of the crate and spray them. A lady would set up the bottles if they tipped over and sometimes she would pull out a straw that was still stuck inside. There was a crane thingy that would reach over and pick up lots of bottles at the same time. This thing twisted them around and then would put them into a HUGE washer machine. The crates would go on a different moving thing (conveyor belt) and then come around again to be filled up with the full bottles. I think they were getting washed in a different machine. The glass bottles would go up the washer one row at a time. There were so many bottles!! Then they would go in a circle and the pop would fill them up and then another circle and a machine would put the lid on. Oh, and there was a red, blinky thing before they got filled. It was checking to see if the bottles were broken or cracked. It’s good that they had that blinking machine first or the pop would come out the cracks and go all over the floor and it would waste a lot! (big eyes) Then the bottles that had lids would go past a lady who would check to see if they were full or halfway full. Looking at all the bottles going by would make you get SO tired!!! (said in a very exhausted tone of voice) You would get a headache too! That day, we were doing Coke, but they do Black Currant too, and Orange Fanta, Sprite, Stoney, and other kinds. It was neat how they filtered the water. They put in lots of chemicals and stuff first, ‘cuz it made it taste good. They had to make it clean because Lake Victoria is actually pretty dirty because hippos are in there. That’s why they have to clean the water, so they can make the pop. Then we got to drink pop before we left that place.
Then we went to Impala Park. There were so many animals to see. The coke factory was fun, but the park was even more INTERESTING. (extreme expression) When we were eating lunch, some of the monkeys wanted to eat our food. Then they would reach in and grab popcorn and chips from our hands, but they were cute and so it didn’t hurt. (I was amused by this comment) We were watching the leopard eat, and when the lions were getting their meat, they were roaring and the one pushed the other one away from his meat, but they didn’t fight very much. We saw a whole bunch of animals: a giraffe, zebras, impalas, an ostrich, birds, water buffalo, warthog, serval cats, quails, and lots of other things! The giraffe’s tongue was really long; I’m positive it was longer than this (motioning about 12 inches). It was purplish-blue! The hyena was really, really ugly. We got to see an elephant skull, a hippo skull, and a giraffe skull. We got to see ostrich eggs too, and HUGE python skins~as long as our whole classroom. (Just for the record, we do have a small classroom.) Then we waded in the water. There were so many tadpoles. More than a thousand, I’m sure. We were at the park a long time, but I still didn’t want to go home when it was time to leave.
Teacher’s addition… I was rather fascinated myself by the
machinery at the Coca-Cola plant. They
run the equipment 24 hours a day, and filled 40,000 bottles per hour on each line (3 different lines)... That’s a lot of soda!!
I also thought it was great fun to pet a cheetah… :)
We took a few youth pictures at the park, since the entire
compound was along for the day.
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