School Tours

SPRING TOURS
April through June, Tuesday through Friday

The Living History Tour at our Riley's Frontier Location (12211 S. Oak Glen Rd. Phone: 909 790-2364 - just 1/2 mile down the road from Los Rios);see map:

Visit our hand-built log cabin and choose four other activities from: toymaking, tinsmithing, butter churning, seed planting, barnyard visit, candle making, hayride, leather craft or “Horse Sense” presentation.

$8.00 per person; 25 minimum per group.

Cider making and caramel apples are available for an additional fee.

Extra Options - advance notice required

• BBQ Hotdog Lunch: $3.50 per person (includes hot dog, chips and drink)
• Tractor-drawn Hayride: $3.00 per person

FALL TOURS

September – Mid-November

Tuesday through Friday

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The Living History Tour at our Riley's Frontier Location: (12211 S. Oak Glen Rd. Phone: 909 790-2364 - just 1/2 mile down the road from Los Rios); see map.

Take a horse-drawn hayride through the woods, visit an authentic log cabin set up for a pioneer family, press your own cider on vintage presses, get a hot-dipped caramel apple for each student and choose 1 additional activity from toymaking, cabin life/chores, tinsmithing, candlemaking, a barnyard visit or leathercraft.

While we will spend a good deal of time emphasizing life on an apple farm, we will draw upon selections from “Farmer Boy”, “Little House in the Big Woods”, “Boys of the Civil War”, “Little House on the Prairie”, and “Prairie Primer”. Our discussions will be based on the westward movement, Laura Ingalls’ Little House on the Prairie, and the settling of the Oak Glen area.

$8.00 per person; 25 minimum per group.

Description of Activity Choices (Frontier Location Only)

Activity	Grade level appropriateness:	Level of hands-on student participation:	Item to take home?
Toymaking	All	High	Yes
Tinsmithing	All	High	Yes
Butter Churning	1st grade and up	High	No
Seed Planting	1st grade and up	High	Yes
Barnyard Visit*	All	High	No
Candle Dipping	All	High	Yes
Hayride	All	High	No
Tending the apple tree	2nd grade and up	Medium	No
Horse Sense	3rd grade and up	Low	No
Cabin life/Chores	All	High	No
Leather craft	3rd grade and up	High	Yes

*Availability depending upon weather (muddy conditions)

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The Little Seedling Tour at Los Rios Rancho:

The Little Seedling Ranch Tour is geared towards our younger guests. Children can visit with the barnyard critters, scale the hay bale fort and mini-maze, play in the log cabin area and meet Johnny Appleseed. This go-at-your-own pace tour is available Tuesdays - Fridays during the Fall Season only. Tours begin at noon.

Advance reservations are required. $5 per person with a 20 person minimum.

Come early and picnic before your tour! The store, bakery, BBQ, and picnic grounds at Los Rios Rancho are open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Extra Options - advance notice required

• Caramel Apples: $2.00 each
• Pumpkin Picking (October): $3.50 per person
• BBQ Hotdog Lunch: $3.50 per person (includes hot dog, chips and drink)
• Tractor-drawn Hayride: $3.00 per person

The Little Seedling Tour is available Tuesdays - Fridays during the Fall season only. Minimum Group size is 20. Advanced reservations are required.  Call us today to schedule your tour!

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The Apple Tour: (At Los Rios Rancho)

Go through our 1906 barn, pack apples on the packing line and take a box home, visit our 1932 large cider press, press your own on our vintage presses and drink it with lunch, walk with Johnny Appleseed through our heirloom orchards.

$5.00 per person; 25 minimum per group.

California Curriculum Standards
Our tours address

History-Social Science Content

Grade 1

1. Study transportation methods of earlier days.
2. Recognize similarities/differences of earlier generations in such areas as work (inside and outside of home) dress, manners, stories, games and festivals drawing from biographies, oral histories and folklore.

Grade 2

1. Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday.
2. Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, land and water resources.

Grade 3

1. Trace the ways in which people have used the resources of the local region and modified the physical environment.
2. Students draw from historical/community resources to organize the sequence of local historical events and describe how each period of settlement left its mark on the land.

Grade 4

1. Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in California.
2. Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political/cultural development since the 1850s.

English/Language Arts

Suggested Literature:

K-2

• Johnny Appleseed: A Poem (Lindbergh)
• Johnny Appleseed (S. Kellogg)
• Apple Cider Making Days (Purmell)
• Giggle, Giggle, Quack (Cronin)

3-5

• Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)

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For those of you unfamiliar with us, Devon and Shelli Riley were the original operators of the agriculture, school tours and supper show hoedowns at Riley’s Farm, here in historic Oak Glen. Today, Devon and Shelli operate just up the road at Riley’s Frontier Events and Rileys at Los Rios Rancho—the largest apple orchard in Southern California.

By offering tours at two separate and distinct locations, we provide teachers and students with a wider range of educational opportunities and activity options. Living History Tours at our Riley's Frontier Homestead location emphasize pioneer life, drawing from the experiences of frontier settlers like Laura Ingalls Wilder and Oak Glen's own Joe Wilshire. Apple Tours at Los Rios Rancho teach about apple farming in particular - how apples are grown, tended, harvested, and processed for various uses - as well as the history of the Oak Glen region and Los Rios Rancho.