We are headed to the desert this week, we’re staying with family which is such a blessing, it saves on the budget and we will get such a personalized experience.
We have been studying the desert using our latest Secret Explorers unit study. It’s been such a joy to create these units Norah is interested in and for her to ask to visit the desert because she wants to see the wildlife and I can make that happen, that feels like what homeschool is about.
It’ll be fun to take our homeschool on the road, though to me Roadschooling is just taking your current curriculum on the road. That’s how we’ve always done it when we need to go to doctors appointments etc.
I’m tweeting this, it’s a vacation but it’s a field trip, a big one! We’re calling it a Field Trip Vacation. Being we’re taking a flight and not driving, I want to pack lighter and specific to what we’re learning but making it really fun and not take a lot of time.
MATH – I photo copied a few game pages from our Family Math book that can be played as games on the plane, with cousins, in the car, etc and it doesn’t require a lot of supplies or manipulatives, just a couple of dice and pencils.
LANGUAGE ARTS – Norah wants to read The Magicians Elephant so we can watch the movie next family night, we have our family read aloud and we are reading Lawn Boy as math and language arts (it’s a budgeting/life skills unit study I’m working on and something we stress to our kids)
Also for language arts Norah is going to have writing prompts she’s going to work on in the nature journal she made, this overlaps science, history and geography as we will be visiting a lot of places where she will have the opportunity to learn these topics.
It truly is going to be a fabulous trip, everything is planned around Norahs interests, visiting the desert and catching lizards is something she has always wanted to do and being we will have family in the area to guide us and experience this with us is going to be truly memorable.
Another key items we are taking is our Yoto player Mini for the daily podcast, KidNuz, music and audiobooks.
Mama needs to fill her cup too so I am bringing a new book suggested to me Modern Miss Mason. We aren’t a Charlotte Mason family, we are eclectic homeschoolers, I love to pull in ideas and philosophies from several places. Continuing my education and nourishing myself makes me a better mother and educator.
Where has your family traveled to that was your favorite place to visit?
