#roadschooling

Everywhere we go the kids find insects or other little critters that they will keep as pets for a few days. Right now they have a couple of millipedes. They will try to create a nice invironment in a jar

Homeschooling in an airplane would be called airschooling, right? No matter what you call it, today school was all about flying. Both older kids got to co-pilot our friends small 4-seater single engine

What do you do when it's nice weather in the morning and the forecast calls for thunderstorms in the afternoon? Here's what we do: We flip the day! Instead of doing school in the morning and be outside

We have known about it for some time but this is the first time that we remembered on the right day. Every month on the first Saturday Home Depot offers a free kids craft. Today they got a small kit called

Full-time travel isn't the same as full-time vacation! Most mornings our older two spend a couple of hours doing schoolwork. First some "analog" work to learn the art of using real books and

Florida Caverns is the only major cave that we've been to that has not been in a National Park. This one is a Florida State Park. Over 4 years have passed since our visit to Pinnacles National Park and

Learn is the third part of our family motto. A young child learns new things every day. Most of us have the privilege to learn in school for 12 years or longer. But what happens when we graduate high school

I couple of days ago I shared how we visited Dinosaur National Monument as a part of our hunt for fossils. And seeing that wall full of fossils certainly made it a worthwhile place to visit. But there

The last stop on our quest to learn about fossils was at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. We debated for a long time whether or not we should go there. Not because we didn't think it would be worth

We continue our hunt for fossils by hiking the Dinosaur Trackway in Red Fleet State Park in Utah. We had decided to go to the Dinosaur National Monument and realized that we were driving right by a site

We roadschool our children and love our field trip days. This fall as we were traveling from our US home base in Pennsylvania to the West Coast, we decided to do a school unit on fossils. The reason for

We must be doing something right when our son wants to go on a field trip for his birthday. Field trips are an important part of the education that we strive to give our children. We do school at home

We love to visit National Parks! Whether it be a park set apart for its unique nature or to preserve a piece of history there is always something interesting to see and learn. Most parks also have a Junior

Continuing west in Nebraska, we had a chance to meet up with another fulltime family and spend a couple of days with them. They suggested we spend a day exploring in the Edgerton Explorit Center in Aurora,

We roadschool our children and an important part of their education is field trips. We try to go somewhere, like a zoo or museum, once every week. To visit a zoo is rarely free and in order to make it

After three days of learning about modern farming, we decided to spend a day learning more about the history of farming here in Iowa. An excellent place to do that is at the Living History Farms in Urbandale

Our final day in Stratford started with a relaxed morning. The kids were tired after several late nights and both my wife and I needed time to get some things done. I got new tires for our truck after

We continue to learn about modern farming in Stratford Iowa. Our second day in town was a Sunday, and that means that we find a church and join in for worship and fellowship. This Sunday we went to Stratford

To be able to answer that question is one thing that is in the curriculum for our children this fall. A simple question, but the truth is that most children in America today, never see the source of the

Today was the first day we tried to establish some "normal" routines. Normal for us means school in the morning and something else in the afternoon. Many days become what we call "school