January 20, 2016

Today's field trip brought to you by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Black Dance Company. It was a beautiful venue and they played great music by American composers. Flat Stanley liked it too ; )

November 6, 2015

We took a field trip to Mammoth National Monument in Waco with the Boltons and it was totally worth the trip! They found 17 full mammoths in their original location and have been working to uncover them, while leaving them undisturbed. It was so different than a museum when they set the bones up like they would have looked alive, which made it that much more cool!! After they saw the mammoth bones they participated in a workshop on carnivores vs herbivores and what their teeth look like, they got to make a shark tooth necklace and see a ton of animal skulls. It was awesome! We ate lunch at the Silos in Waco and headed home. Loved it!!

 

October 20, 2015

What a great field trip! We went to the Lake Lewisville Environmental Learning Area for a morning of hiking and kayaking, and it was a beautiful morning for it! You had to be seven to kayak, but the boys had a tough go at it. It was windy and they kept getting pushed to the banks, which gets frustrating and difficult to correct. They both ended up getting towed back to the starting point, but they enjoyed the experience nonetheless. I wasn't even supposed to be with them during the kayak, but Garrett had a stomach bug that morning so he stayed home with Charlie instead of the two of us hiking. It worked out for the best!

August 28, 2015

This is one of the reasons I LOVE homeschooling! Getting together with other homeschooling mamas and their kids to do fun and educational field trips when everyone else is in school! The Arboretum was so cool - and none of us had been there before so all the kids were equally interested in exploring and discovering all that there was to do. There was a solar system section (science: check!), a weather section, lots about tanagrams and shapes in nature, a section on rocks and water and an edible garden. We didn't even get to the 'adult' section of the arboretum with all the flowers because we were having so much fun in the kid's section. What a cool place!