{"id":816745,"date":"2026-05-23T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:48:26","slug":"sixth-graders-finally-visit-dallas-zoo-after-pandemic-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816745\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Graders Finally Visit Dallas Zoo After Pandemic Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                    Giraffe statue at entrance to the Dallas Zoo | Image by Alfredo Rodriguez\/Dallas Zoo website                                <\/p>\n<p>Sixth graders at Canyon Creek Elementary School finally went on the kindergarten field trip to the Dallas Zoo, which was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic that shut down schools.<\/p>\n<p>These students began kindergarten at the start of the pandemic and are now getting ready to transition to junior high. With the principal\u2019s approval, parents and school staff worked together to coordinate the rescheduled outing using class funds, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/dallas-zoo-field-trip-fulfills-pandemic-promise-richardson-isd-6th-graders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by Fox 4 KDFW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These students spent kindergarten learning over Zoom.<\/strong> <strong>In first grade, they read while wearing masks and practiced social distancing rather than mingling with classmates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annabelle Smith said she still remembers learning the original trip would not happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out that we weren\u2019t able to go, so it made me really sad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Dudley, a parent of a sixth-grader, said that watching older and younger siblings have the experience made the missed trip stand out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your older kid gets to go to the zoo and your younger kid gets to go the zoo, and your middle kid\u2019s like, \u2018Well I never got to go to the zoo with my classmates.\u2019 You just kind of feel, you know, a little sad for them that they missed out on that,\u201d Dudley said, per Fox 4.<\/p>\n<p>Even as they head to junior high, the students embraced the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time I actually went to a zoo,\u201d said Victoria Ramierez, per Fox 4. \u201cI\u2019m really happy I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI thought it was really fun,\u201d<\/strong> Emme Dudley told Fox 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite animal was probably the monkey with the mustache,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giraffe statue at entrance to the Dallas Zoo | Image by Alfredo Rodriguez\/Dallas Zoo website Sixth graders at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":816746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,336164,336166,336163,12293,1596,8158,336160,336161,263229,336162,336165,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-816745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-canyon-creek-elementary","tag-canyon-creek-elementary-zoo-trip","tag-covid-kindergarten-class-dallas","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-zoo","tag-dallas-zoo-field-trip","tag-pandemic-missed-kindergarten-trip","tag-richardson-isd","tag-sixth-graders-zoo-outing","tag-sixth-graders","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116623737613809852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}