{"id":11630,"date":"2021-08-20T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/?p=11630"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:18:02","slug":"timmy-goes-on-a-field-trip-toddler-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/timmy-goes-on-a-field-trip-toddler-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Timmy goes on a Field Trip (Toddler version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written & Illustrated by: Laurie Trotman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Timmy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an ant that loves to go on adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Timmy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Today is a school day, but we aren’t going to school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Timmy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We are going on a field trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Sally met us this morning and wished us a VERY fun day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Queen<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Gosh, where are we going?” I wondered. Franklin, my big brother, heard me and said, “I don’t know, but I heard Uncle Billy say that he was super excited for us!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were all ready to go, so we marched out of the anthill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ants<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We saw a whole line of school beetles waiting for us. I have never seen so many of them all in one place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Row<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

All the beetles had names. There was Mr. Beetleman, Mrs. Saltybeetle, Mrs. Beetletoes, and Mr. Beetlelegs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My teacher, Mr. Eaglebud, had a large horn. He talked into it, told us to stay in line, and start climbing onto the school beetles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it was my turn, I climbed up onto Mrs. Beetletoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Timmy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then, Mr. Eaglebud made another loud announcement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Teacher<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Today we are going to a water park to go swimming, and also to ride on water rides!” We all started clapping and cheering!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school beetles started moving and soon we made it to the water park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Water<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Franklin, my big brother, said that I should go with him so that he could show me all of the rides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to the ‘Cattail Slide’ first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cattail<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Franklin started climbing and told me to follow him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We climbed and climbed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then, Franklin hopped off the cattail onto a green leaf! The leaf bent over and he went sliding down and then…KERSPLASH…into the pond below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He hollered up to me, “Your turn Timmy! JUMP!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I leaped onto the leaf, and…SWOOSH…I started sliding so fast that I could hear myself giggling, and then, I was up in the air…and…KERSPLASH!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Timmy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I had barely come up out of the water when I heard Franklin yelling, “Come on! I want to show you the Lily-pad Water Slide!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lily<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We ran over to the stream and hopped onto a passing lily-pad. Franklin yelled, “Hang on because this starts moving very fast!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water was splashing and we started spinning on the lily-pads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as I thought it was going too fast, we splashed into the pond! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came up out of the water laughing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Timmy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“That was scary and fun!” I laughed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We rode on hopping frogs, that leaped from lily-pad to lily-pad before landing in water;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Frog<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dragonflies took us up in the air, then we jumped onto lilies and then into the pond below; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dragonflies<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then, at the end of the day, we floated and relaxed on lily-pads that had pink and red lilies on them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Floating<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I laid on my back, looking at the clouds, thinking that this may have been the most fun I’ve ever had. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t want the day to end, but we heard Mr. Eaglebud’s loud horn again as he said, “Time to go home!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Time<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We all crawled slowly back to the school beetles. We were very tired, but we all thought that we were the luckiest ants in all the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written & Illustrated by: Laurie Trotman My name is Timmy. I am an ant that loves to go on adventures. Today is a school day, but we aren’t going to school. We are going on a field trip! Queen Sally met us this morning and wished us a VERY fun day! “Gosh, where are we … Continue reading Timmy goes on a Field Trip (Toddler version)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdfFqG-31A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11773,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions\/11773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurietrotman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}