As soon as the children arrived this morning I told them we needed to "speed up" morning routines...lunch count, "sharing books", "home folders" and flag salute because we had an adventure waiting at our doorstop. The kids were excited. "Are we going to do the challenge again?" "Can we go to the bakery?" "Where are we going?"
After checking with the office, we were on our way, through the woods behind our school to the cranberry bogs below. Many of you might remember a similiar trip I took last year with my group. Come join us for a fall walk in cranberry country.
Through the fence we could see the cranberries floating. At a further bog, a man was on a "beater" machine loosening the berries from the vines.
The children couldn't wait to cut through the fence and go down below.
All we could see was RED, RED, berries floating on the water.
In this picture you can see our school in the background.
Here we met Max, the dog....some of you might remember Max from last year. He loves swimming in the sea of cranberries.
After spending some time with Max, we were on our way again to see the "beater machine".
By the time we got back to the first bog, they were corraling the berries and using the "huge vacuum" of the Monster Machine to load them on the truck.
Back once more in the classroom, we recorded our field trip by "drawing a map" of our adventure.
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Those floating cranberries present a scene that is almost art.
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One of these days we are going to have to rectify your situation. Maybe your next trip "south of Boston" we could go on the Mayflower and after having lunch at my house we could go harvest cranberries behind my house.
There are two methods utilized in harvesting cranberries: the wet method (seen in these pictures) and the dry method (hopefully over the next several weeks I can get pictures of that). The wet method is much more colorful, but cranberry growers who use the dry method get a higher price per barrel for their cranberries from Ocean Spray.
All over town for the next month, cranberries will be harvested. Plan your next trip to Boston for October. I know a number of people who own bogs (including my sister) and they are always looking for workers to don "waders" and hop in the bogs to corral the berries.
We all had fun on this mini field trip to the bogs. We were only gone from the classroom for an hour (from 9-10) but we did learn a lot.
I think that it is great that the children will know more about what is going on in their own town, I am still waiting for them to harvest the ones near me!
P.S.....Being from the hilltowns of Massachusetts, I used to think that cranberry's grew on trees!!! SHHHH....don't tell
Thanks so much for posting this to
my group
Gram C
your kids are soo lucky to have you for a teacher... God bless you and yours...
Can you tell me exactly where it is?
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