 For this week's Golden Apple, we go on a field trip with Lowell Elementary School into the forest. The Kindergarteners planted a tree and went on an exciting nature walk. Our Logan Gaye has more. Every year the Lowell Elementary Kindergarteners make a trip to the forest to learn about nature. Beginning of the school year we studied trees for our science unit. And so as kind of a ending project we come here. The kids have been taking care of a classroom learning about it, parts about it, and so it's kind of a fun way to end it. The Kindergarteners have been caring for a baby tree named Porky! While on the trip they dug a permanent home for Porky in the Kindergarten Grove. So they come here, they get to plant the tree in the Kindergarten Grove, and they revisit it when they're here for middle school. The Nature Field trip is part of a school district tradition. All the Kindergarteners classes in the Brainerd School District get to take a field trip here and they each have their own little section of the Kindergarten Grove so you can look back at years past and see the trees growing. And if students like the Lowell Elementary Kindergarteners continue the fun activity of planting a tree each year, one day they will repopulate this forest. Kind of a win-win. They get to kind of complete their learning with the trees and help out the environment at the same time. Taking students out of the classroom and exposing them to the outdoors is vital to their education. There's so much to learn from the outdoors. Kids are always very curious. And so the learning is endless out here so it's a great opportunity for them. And the Kindergarteners were overflowing with excitement of the day. Win, how trees grow. Because they have this soil that makes them grow very tall. Tall than us. And Baxter, Logan Gay, Lakeland News.