Our field trip to Lalbagh

5th grade went on a field trip to Lalbagh for a special programme called "Bangalore Walks". We had to walk a lot. We got jute bags and notebooks on what we will be doing. We were supposed start at 06:30 but started 1 hour later at 07:30. Never mind. We started from school at 07:30 and reached Villa Del Mar at 08:00. From there it took about half an hour to reach Lalbagh. In Lalbagh we got a persn who works for bangalore walks. Her name was Rupa. The first thing we did after reaching was that we got our goodies and breakfast while miss Rupa told us about Lalbagh and how it was created. It was created by Hyder Ali but mainly taken care by his son Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan used to tell his messengersto get sapplings of as many plants they can to be planted in his beloved Lalbagh. After eating our breakfast we started our nature walk. We started with our first exercise. We went to 8 diffrent trees and had to write about it. We had to write which tree was it, the first things we noticed, the next things noticed, how will I remember it and what will we name it. We saw the Peepal tree, Ficus Mysore, Silk cotton tree, Sita-Ashoka tree, Sausage tree from Kenya, Chickenpox tree, Sisal tree and Buttercup Krishna. We even got to trace tree trunks of the chickenpox tree and sisal tree on a peice of paper. The buttercup Krishna tree was the most interesting tree seen during the field trip. After that we sat for a while and ate some snacks. After sometime we continued and reached 2 gardens which were called the Lalbagh gardens. We plyed a game where we were in groups of 4s or 5s. I was with Nehal, Misha, Ana and Shreya. The game was about going around the garddens and collecting the habitats (from where they are) and write it. We got18 countries. After that we headed towards the lake we saw 2 lakes, 1 we just passed through and at the other one we stopped for another exercise. In this exercise we had to use are listening skills. We had to list the we could hear and then list the sounds which were pleasant which you wished would go away. After sometime we started our walk to the last and final place, the tallest tree in Lalbagh where we did a little bit of tree trunk climbing. After an half an hour ofplay we had a final discussion about what we did during the whole day. This was one of the best Field trip ever been to.

Megha Goel
V-A
Indus International School