The one thing I knew from the beginning of our homeschool journey is that if we did homeschool I wanted to have plenty of field trip experiences for our children. I love the idea of hands on experiences that help make what we are learning real and apply to the now. One of our field trips we've taken this year was canoeing down the river. We were learning about the Pilgrims coming to settle the New World and ideally we would have gone out on a sailing ship on the ocean or at least toured an old one. That not being really possible in the land locked state we live in we did the next best thing we could and "sailed" around a river and used our imaginations. Perhaps not authentic in any way, but everyone had fun and we got out and talked about what it would have been like to be on the ocean on a bigger ship. On another note, I think this would make a great creative date idea (hear that Jon!).
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