Do you remember a school field trip from your childhood? Fun memories like those stand the test of time, but field trips make for more than just great memories they have great developmental and academic benefits!
Field trips are an amazing tool to extend the classroom to the real world,providing an educational experience from which students can grow academically or culturally. As educators and parents, we can take advantage of the benefits of field trips to more effectively promote real-world learning, social-emotional development, and academic success. The benefits of field trips in childhood education can be tremendous!
Children are active learners as they are constantly making connections with the world around them. Using that drive to learn and explore, field trips are the perfect way for children to learn outside of a typical classroom setting. Field trips play a massive role in social-emotional development. Allowing students to collaborate with their peers, explore new environments and make connections.
Field trips are both fun and memorable ways to promote academic success. With culturally enriching field trips, students can make connections to other educational fields, gain first-hand experiences, and understand concepts on a deeper level.
What to expect at a field trip to Rafter D Ranch? Rafter D Ranch is a full working ranch and boarding facility Students will be able to see what a working ranch looks like here in Brentwood Ca.
Students will benefit as they participate in unique experiences such as: See & meet cattle See & meet horses See tractors Pet/brush a horse See & feel a horse's horseshoe & hoof clippings See & feel a horses riding equipment See, feel & practice using a Ropers rope See & watch horses being ridden around the ranch
Teachers will prearrange students into groups and we will rotate each group to various stations listed above.
Each field trip students must bring their own prepackaged lunches and you will get a 30min lunch break at our picnic tables. *Depending on size of attendance we will provide price and time length of field trip.
Mens and Women's bathrooms available on premises. Please be advised that this is a working ranch and the ground on premises is dirt.