Sweet spring...
Rhema classes journey
to local sugar bush
Thursday, March 31, 2005, Rhema Staff
To celebrate the arrival of the spring season, five classes of Rhema Christian School students explored the wonders of making maple syrup during the week of March 21, 2005.

Traveling by bus to McLean Berry Farm and Sugar Bush near Buckhorn (approximately 25 minutes north of Peterborough), students were treated to a tour of the sugar shack, a walk in the maple bush, a wagon ride, a sampling of succulent taffy-on-snow and some time with the friendly McLean farm animals.

The process of making maple syrup - a distinctly Canadian tradition - was fully explained and experienced, and students were even invited to participate in some old-fashioned challenges such as log sawing and snowshoeing.

The classes that participated in this fun and educational day trip were junior kindergarten, senior kindergarten, two classes of grade three students, and grade seven.

"Eating the taffy-on-snow was the best part of the day," comments Rebecca Cole-Walker, a grade seven student and class photographer for the trip. "It was so good and just melted in your mouth!"