Field Trip to Student's Home

Yesterday we took our first field trip.  We are studying about family and home, so one of the mothers volunteered to have the students come to her home for a visit.  It was quite fun.

Anticipation....

Arrival

We loaded up the bus and drove through the neighborhood to Aysha's home.  Her mother and grandmother greeted us at the door.  We went into the Majlis (sitting room) and the children sat on chairs around the room, while the adults sat in the middle of the room on the floor. 

A HUGE room!

Sofas were lined up end to end all the way around 3 sides of the room.  The 4th side held all the serving dishes and food.

Faisal and Mariam sitting nicely.

They served fruit kebabs, doughnuts, pastries, and juice to the children. 

Rauda and Khatera enjoy the kebabs.

Sulaiman, Athla, and Mohammed preferred the doughnuts.

Amna found the perfect spot perched on the arms between 2 of the sofas!

Hamdan practices his writing skills!  :)

They served the adults tea or coffee, pastries, fruit compote, and some kind of noodles.

The remnants of our repast....

The children were well-behaved for the first half hour, and then the novelty wore off, and I was glad they were contained within the one room.  Some kept trying to slip off and head into the rest of the house, but that's not easy to do with the big doors they had to open!  Then, one of the adults handed Aysha a cell phone, so the kids were enthralled by that....

The I-phone holds their attention.  Maybe I should take my I-pad to school so they will be just as attentive to our lessons!  Ha-ha!

As we lined up to leave, each child was given a goodie bag with more candy and treats inside.

Then we headed back to school to eat lunch.  We tried to keep them at the lunch table for 15 minutes to eat their sandwich and juice, but it was a losing battle.  None of them were hungry or thirsty--imagine!!