Educational School Field Trips

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Bonnybrook Farms welcomes over 17,000 school children to the farm each year. Our Spring and Fall Field Trips are popular with preschool through third grade educators, providing students with an excellent learning experience as well as a day of fun on the farm.

Bonnybrook's School Field Trips complement in-class instruction in Ohio's science learning outcomes through hands on activities and encounters with living things. Our field trip guides are trained in adapting tours to the appropriate age or grade level. This fun-filled tour gives children an opportunity to learn while having a great time!


Closed for the 2007 season. See you in 2008!

For more information 937-433-0886.


Your school group will enjoy a ride on a covered wagon through our beautiful 350 acre working farm. (We plant crops of ornamental corn, gourds, sunflowers and over 25 varieties of pumpkins.)

In the springtime, students learn how sunflowers germinate, grow, are pollinated, and their uses, and actually plant a sunflower to take home. During the fall, students learn how pumpkins grow, and about many unusual kinds of pumpkins (not all pumpkins are orange!) and choose a pumpkin to take home with them.

Bonnybrook's Field Trips offer children the opportunity to see, hear and touch our child-friendly horses, ponies, donkeys and other farm animals. Our spring tour emphasizes farm animals, their differences, care and behavior, while our fall tour focuses on horse care, feeding and behavior.

Dates:

The farm will be closed for the 2007 season.

We will reopen for field trips in 2008 .

Times: Field trips start at 9:15 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., and 1:00 p.m.
Admission: Tours are reasonably priced at $6.00 per student and parents. There is no cost for teachers.
There is a minimum cost of $95.00.
Picnic: Bring a lunch to eat under our spacious picnic shelter and let the children romp in our Farmyard Play Area.

Location: Bonnybrook Farms
Reservations: 937-433-0886

Teacher Comments:

"You run the PERFECT pumpkin patch farm! Every year, I always enjoy hearing the praises from parent chaperones while riding back to school on the bus!! Keep up the awesome experience!!"

Kindergarten Teacher,
Kings Mill Elementary, Kings Mill

" All aspects were exceptional! The presentations had excellent visuals to "explain" what was being said. The children enjoyed planting seeds, petting animals, eating in the shelter, and of course...the playground! Our parents really enjoyed this field trip!"

Kindergarten Teacher,
Jefferson Montessori, Dayton

"The material was well suited to our science curriculum. We'll be back!"

First Grade Teacher,
Oakview Elementary School, Dayton

"We studied plant and animal life cycles this year. The terminology was perfect for their developemnt level. The whole day fit with the State Standards for second grade. This was one of the best fieldtrips I've ever taken my students on."


Second Grade Teacher,
Reading Central Elementary, Reading

"We loved it. Most importantly...the children loved it, they talked about it the whole way home!"


Second Grade Teacher,
Village Christian School, Pleasant Plain

"Reinforced learning from 2nd grade and introduced new concepts. Beautiful - clean - well laid-out...very unique 'classrooms' - fun playground."

Third Grade Teacher,
John XXIII School, Middletown

"As first time visitors, we were very impressed! The facility was very clean and the staff could not have been friendlier! We really liked having a tour guide which made the trip even more educational for our children."


Kindergarten Teacher,
Jeffersonville Elementary, Jeffersonville

"Everything is so well organized and thought out. In the past we have visited you in the fall. I had wondered how you'd make sunflowers as fun and interesting as you do pumpkins, but you did!"

 

Kindergarten Teacher,
Monroe Elementary, Monroe

"It is an excellent facility for students and families alike to explore plant and animal life."

 

Kindergarten Teacher,
Blacklayne Elementary, Fairborn

"This was our first visit - everything was delightful!"


First Grade Teacher,
Mark Twain School, Miamisburg

"We loved everything! The play area, the animals and the presentations were just perfect."


First Grade Teacher,
Olive Hill School , Trotwood

"We realy enjoyed ourselves. Each year it seems to get better"

 

First Grade Teacher,
Dayton Christian-Kettering Campus, Kettering

One of our best field trips!"

First Grade Teacher,
Indian Riffle Elementary School, Kettering

"Your organization is amazing! I never worry about my kids getting lost in another group."

 

Preschool Teacher,
Miami Valley School, Dayton

"Everything is well thought out and appropriate for young children - from beginning to end it offers children a successful experience."

Preschool Teacher,
Sands Montessori, Cincinnati

"Best field trip I've ever had, Thank you!!"

First Grade Teacher,
Menlo Park School, Huber Heights

"We came on a very rainy day, but the facilities are such that it did not matter. "

Preschool Teacher,
Miami Trace School, Washington Court House

"The whole day fit with the State Standards...this was one of the best field trips I"ve ever taken my students on!"

Second Grade Teacher,
Reading Central Elementary, Reading

"Thank you so much for making learning hands-on and so incredibly exciting!"

First Grade Teacher,
Mound Elementary, Miamisburg

"I liked the combination of animal and plant life. This was a great reinforcement for our Science unit. Very well organized with discussion and movement divided up. I was very impressed with our first time visit."

Kindergarten Teacher,
Monroe Elementary, Monroe

Bonnybrook Farms

937-433-0886