First graders crush apples on trip to Greenburg Nature Center, first field trip of year

By Paige Felgner and Malia McLellan, Student Life Editors

GREENBURG - Colonial School’s first grade went on their first field trip to the Greenburg Nature Center in October. At the nature center, they made homemade apple cider by putting apples into a press where they are turned into cider. After making the cider, each student received a sample of the apple-filled goodness.

The Colonial Times interviewed some first graders and got their opinion on the trip.

Bryn Felgner, a first grader in Mrs. Kathryn Castellano’s class, said, “I enjoyed when we finished making the cider. It was cold and delicious... the bus was not fun, and crunching the Granny Smiths was also a challenge.”

Lucy Cole, another student of Mrs. Castellano, said her favorite part was when “we got to juice the apples.” Challenges on the trip included the “freezing cold and (it) was hard to smash the Granny Smiths,” she said.

Gloria Moraes of Mrs. Castellano’s class said her favorite part was making the apple cider and cranking the apples. She didn’t like going on the bus because that was boring .

Most of the students interviewed liked smashing the apples into cider. That was also the opinion of both Aidan Feeney and Isaiah Leveille, students in Mrs. Laura Hendrie’s class.

This story also appears on the Colonial Times website.