Happy Friday! If you are celebrating Passover, Easter, the beginning of spring or making it through another week, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
A rundown of field trip ideas (I'm using the term field trip in the broadest possible sense):
I hope your Friday includes moments of wonder and sunshine.
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Friday is here again! Here are a few ideas that may make your child's Friday a little more fun, or you may want to tackle some of these ideas this weekend.
Get up and move If everyone is a little stir crazy, perhaps getting up and moving like animals will help. You can use a sand timer, watch or phone and set a specific length of time for each. Here are a few examples:
Bake King Arthur Flour has a free recipe booklet for kids with great tips and recipes. Play dough Here is the recipe we have used for years:
Backyard Obstacle Course Make an obstacle course with items you already have on hand. For ideas on obstacles to include in your course, head here. I hope your Friday includes moments of wonder and fun! Creative ideas are everywhere for spending time outside with kids or taking a virtual field trip, so I thought I would send out a simple round-up of ideas for your Friday:
Spending time outside:
Virtual field trips: Story time:
Bake cookies:
I hope your Friday includes moments of wonder and fun. When Chloë and Clara were younger, Friday was our field trip day. Sometimes the experience brought about deep learning, but more often than not it was a time to step away from the regular schedule of our days and enjoy the experience of wandering around a favorite museum or walking the trails at a nature preserve.
I couldn't always predict what would bring about deep learning. One Friday, we stumbled upon a documentary, "The Mystery of the Great Lakes," at an imax theater at one of our museums. The girls loved it! We went back four times to rewatch it and researched everything we could about sturgeon. We bought a picture book and sturgeon frequently were the topic of creative writing projects for months. I did not predict that response! Other Fridays found us at an old grist mill with nature trails to walk and explore. We toured the mill a couple times, but walking the trails was the real draw. The outings may not have appeared educational, but spending time outdoors with no structure or expectation was invaluable. Those days are often memorialized with great fondness. Field trips, in the traditional sense, are not in the cards right now, but setting aside a fun activity or nature walk may be a good way to mark that it is Friday.
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AuthorWelcome! My name is Heidi. I am a mom of two daughters, one dog, and one rabbit, and wife to one guy. I have been a homeschool mom for thirteen years – the first ten in Chicago and the last three in St. Louis. I am glad you found your way here! Archives
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