4th Grade Visits the Philadelphia Flower Show!

We had an absolutely wonderful trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on Tuesday!  This trip was the culmination of our partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and Meadowbrook Farm. It was quite an exciting day, filled with all kinds of wonderful surprises!  

Taking the train into town was very adventurous!

When we arrived, Jacqueline Fisher from PHS met us to lead us through the show.

First, we had a special surprise!  Jacqueline treated us to the Butterfly Experience exhibit.  It was quite an amazing experience.  The students had Q-tips with nectar to entice the butterflies to come to them.  There were so many butterflies!

One of the highlights was seeing our "Pennock Plates" which are the sculpted plates the students made which were inspired by plates found in the Pennock home at Meadowbrook Farm.  The students hadn't seen the plates after they were glazed, so it was quite wonderful to see them for the first time at the show!  This was our science/art project that was done with the staff of Meadowbrook Farm.

Next it was time to explore the show with Jacqueline. She explained to us how the exhibits come together, and we talked about the inspiration for the different displays. Favorites included Cinderella, Nightmare before Christmas, Tarzan and Frozen. Other favorites included the jewelry made from plant material and the pressed flower pictures. It was a truly magical day! In the words of one student: "I really didn't expect to love it so much. I thought it would just be a lot of flowers. But it was so much more than that. I felt like I was transported into a whole new world."