Arboretum Field Trip

We had the BEST time on our field trip to the Arboretum last Thursday!  We got extremely lucky and had the most gorgeous weather so we could truly enjoy everything the Arboretum has to offer!

 We started off learning all about different types of animals shelters and how to bird watch!  Our awesome tour guild told us that the Arboretum has more types of trees then all of Europe!  I think it's pretty amazing that we have more of a variety of trees in our little town then an entire continent!  

 We learned about different types of birds and the sounds they make so when we went bird watching we could listen for their calls and know where to look to find the birds on our search guide!

 Before going off on our bird watching experience we pretended like we were each type of bird we would be looking for and I am so proud of how well my little birdies listened because they were able to find each bird we learned about!!!

 Starting our bird watching adventure!

 The Arboretum provided each of my bird watchers with binoculars and a bird identification page to help with their bird watching!

 I just love my little bird watchers!

 Looking for birds in their natural habitats!

 We are so lucky to live in a place that has such an amazing outdoor learning experience like the Arboretum! 

 I love the excitement in their faces when they found a bird on their bird watching list!

Our amazing tour guide explaining what a wasp nest looks like after all the baby wasps have left and flow away!

After bird watching for a while, we went inside to the classroom/caged animals exhibit part of our tour! 

 Everyone loved learning all about animals that we see all over Asheville!

 I am so proud of all the great questions everyone had for our tour guide!

 Then it was time for lunch in the beautiful sunny weather!  After lunch we went on own unguided hike all through The Arboretum's Awesome trails!

Heading out in to nature with my sweet little hikers!

 We ended up doing about a mile and a quarter hike and everyone rocked out and did awesome keeping up and exploring nature together as a class!

We truly had an amazing time, thank you so much to everyone for helping make this field trip possible for us to attend, it was absolutely amazing!  We made memories we will never forget!