From the outset, at 9:30 a.m., as some 40 Orchard Elementary School students, teachers and chaperones hiked up a steep path, one field trip theme, in part, was already clear: While we embrace technology, there is no smartphone app for Mother Nature.
Eager students in Valerie Blanchard and Lola Kraft’s third-grade classes on Thursday morning assembled at Rockville Hills Regional Park to make connections between their book lessons and what they saw, heard, smelled and touched in the 600-acre park, off Rockville Road in rural Fairfield.
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