As the school year begins, and we start grinding away at those worksheets, and my boys groan (not inwardly) at the unfairness of it all… Wait… worksheets? Groans? Nah! We kicked off our school year with an ADVENTURE! Actually, it was a vacation, complete with a trip to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon. […]
Just JUMP: A Homeschool Field Trip
Over the years we have taken all kinds of field trips. We’ve toured a commercial bakery, pizza place, grocery store, shopping mall, and two bowling alleys. We’ve visited zoos, taken hikes, and watched many educational movies at the IMAX theater. We’ve been skating, bowling, swimming, and even watched a Civil War re-enactment and toured their […]
Cat Tales & New Faces
5 Homeschool moms and 18 kids met at Cat Tales Zoological Park this past Wednesday morning. It was chilly, and threatening to rain, but prayers were offered by all of us I think, and the rain stayed away for the first time in over a week. When Amber emailed me and asked me to host […]
Spokane BIG Homeschool Blogger’s Field Trip
One more week! One week! I can’t believe it snuck up on me like that, but in just a week I will get to meet some of you and have some fun exploring at Cat Tales Zoological Park in Mead, WA. It’s not too late to sign up, you know. Just visit my original Big Homeschool […]
Homeschool Blogger Field Trip Spokane
My friend Amber over at Classic Housewife came up with this fantastic idea to have a Homeschool Blogger Field Trip. She tweeted me and asked me what I thought, and I told her that it just might work. I’m not sure what kind of response I’m going to get, but what the heck, it’s worth […]