Homeschoolers Have Field Trips Too
We have not been a part of a homeschooling Co-op group for that long, but we are really thankful for the one that we are a part of. Our group went on a field trip to a working farm called Abma’s Farm....
View ArticleButterfly Atrium
Our family visited the Butterfly Atrium at Hershey Gardens in PA which was so beautiful! They had the temperature set as if we were in a tropical rain forest. There were so many beautiful and various...
View ArticleField Trip: Civil War Museum
When we took a vacation in Virginia, the first place we went to was the Civil War Museum to teach the boys some history, located in New Market. The tickets were good for seven days. We went there...
View ArticleLuray Caverns and Museums in Luray, VA
The Luray Caverns was discovered in the 1800s in Luray, VA. This place was the biggest plan we had on our vacation because it not only has the incredible caverns, but also a Car museum, toy museum,...
View ArticleShriver House in Gettysburg, PA
On our way home from VA, We made a stop in Gettysburg, PA. I had never been there before, though always heard various stories about its Civil War history. I know of soldier accounts and the large...
View ArticleField Trip: Lenni-Lenape and the Jersey Shore
One of the co-ops we are a part of took a field trip last month on a hot day down to Sandy Hook, NJ to learn about the native Lenape tribe who once lived in that area and what their ways of life...
View ArticleField Trip: Duke Farms
For our smallest homeschooling co-op, while it was nicer weather, we went on a field trip to a beautiful and fun place before being confined in for more class time. Learning through going out to...
View ArticleField Trip: Making Apple Cider
Although I have posted in the past that we have gone to the J.A. McFaul Environmental Center, one of our homeschooling co-ops had a field trip there with a program where the kids could learn how apple...
View ArticleHomeschooling: Japan Study
This year we are doing some American history and Asian history studies. This is one of the areas that I decided to not follow a set curriculum, but pretty much have been doing a DIY. I am loving it....
View ArticleField Trip: Jockey Hollow & The Wick House
I had been hoping to go back to Jockey Hollow and the Wick House for a few years to show my sons, since I went there for a field trip when I was in third grade and it seriously changed my life (it...
View ArticleHomeschooling: China Study
China has always fascinated me. The music is beautiful, some of the folklore is so unique, and I used to love watching Kung Fu movies like Fearless Kung Fu Elements (it is so bad, after watching it...
View ArticleField Trip: Liberty Science Center
I went to the Liberty Science Center for a field trip in third or fourth grade and remember bits and pieces of it, and honestly, even some of the things I remembered being there are still there twenty...
View ArticleHomeschooling Study: Korea
We started this study the day that the winter Olympic games in Pyeongchang, South Korea started. It was exciting for the boys to see the opening for the Olympics after we learned a little bit about...
View ArticleField Trip: Franklin Mineral Museum
My sons are very fond of Minecraft. They love learning about different minerals as well as the whole creative aspect of the game. Micah has his own little rock collection and Leto can tell me the...
View ArticleHomeschooling Study: India
India is what I always say is my heart string country. It is the country that I have felt yearnings to go to as a missionary. It is the country that I first wanted to learn about when I was a child....
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