A field trip is a highly anticipated event for any student. In regular school, the opportunity to visit another place and learn more about it is a rare event. This is why is it much looked forward to. In a homeschooling family the parent has the flexibility to take the homeschooled students on field trips much more often. This does not make it any less popular.
Where Should You Go
There are any number of places that you would like to take your homeschooling students to, but as you get embroiled with the academic section of the school year you tend to forget all those big plans. So here’s a simple suggestion, make a homeschool field trip wish list. It can have everything on it from one hour library trips to camping in a national park to three days in Disneyland. Let your imagination go wild as you add to the list. Remember any outing out of the home can be converted into a field trip if the children get to learn something new.
Think Educational and Fun
Ideally speaking, your field trip should have something educational and something fun. The point is to enrich the minds of the children while they enjoy themselves. Each state has museums that could make a good trip and over here is a list that could help you plan out some of your field trips. You can make up your own bucket list of field trips and see how many of them you can manage in your many years of homeschooling. Field trips do not always have to be to exotic locations. Even a visit to the local mall to buy ice cream can be a math class as the children buy their own ice creams and collect the correct change.
One way to formalize an outing into a field trip is to make the homeschool students write a report on what they did. The written report can be embellished with photographs taken on the trip and must mention the new things that they saw and did. This is also a good way to maintain a formal record for your academic session activities.
