Category: field trips
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Vietnam Wall Field Trip
This past Veteran’s Day we visited the Vietnam Wall. It was an amazing field trip and a great history lesson. A chance to discuss how people reacted to the Vietnam War and the Cold War in general. Only we never left Texas. War. The girls all listened carefully and respectfully, but part of the way…
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Planning field trips for older kids
If you have older kids you know how hard it is to find field trips for them. When your kids are in elementary school you can take them to the pet store and the grocery store for field trips. There’s some great science, some math (at the grocery store at least), and all in all…
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10 reasons why audiobooks are lifesavers on car trips
Since our children have been babies we have taken long car trips. When our kids were three and under we drove to South Carolina for my brother’s college graduation. The next year we drove up to Wisconsin for a family reunion. The year after that we drove to California. You get the point we take…
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Best Austin Area Field Trips
The kids and I love to go on field trips, though we don’t go quite as often now that the kids are getting older. Regardless, over our 6 years of homeschooling here we’ve found the best Austin area field trips, and I’m going to share our wisdom with you. **State capitol image from pixelchecker and…
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Why go on a family mission trip?
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to best share this. Because there was a lot to process and a lot happened in a week. And some of the things would probably sound horrible if you weren’t there. But it was an amazing week. One of the highlights for me was having so many…