December 2011

Tis the season of holiday cheer! Many of you will be so busy preparing for your festivities that it may seem going on a field trip is the last thing you want to add to your list of things to do. However, there are still so many field trips that can be done, if you think outside the box. Visiting nursing homes and singing Christmas carols, baking cookies for the local fire station, helping out at a local soup kitchen or working with the salvation army ringing the bell, so tell me what kinds of field trips are you taking this December with your children?

This site is for HOMESCHOOLER's, for sharing their field trips and methods of learning while outside the home. I am trying to distinguish this site from all the other wonderful blog hops in blog land. As a home schooler I am looking to support and encourage other homeschoolers to share in their learning adventures with their children that occur outside the home. To find out more please read the guidelines in the header bar above.









Now on to the Field Trips! Please take the time to read a few posts and share some blog love by commenting!

November 2011

My home blog Life's Adventures has been nominated for Best Field trip/Nature blog for the Home school blog awards. Field trips are my passion in home schooling as I feel there are so many wonderful benefits of stepping away from the books and getting hands on knowledge of what you are learning. So if you feel so inclined please support me by voting. Go to this link and click on the dot to the left of Life adventure's and then click "Vote" at the bottom of the screen to cast your vote. Voting ends midnight November 18thth!!! Thank you for your support


The Field Trip Hop has a new look and a new title! I have been working with my good bloggy friend Lynda from My Heart's Desire Creations to come up with a new look. I love the old world map look and as we have home schoolers posting their field trips from around the world I thought it was a good theme for the hop. If you are interested in having any work done for your blog I encourage you to contact Lynda and let her help you, she is amazing to work with:)!

If you are interested in being a guest blogger and have something to say about how you use field trips in your home school please contact me either thru the comments or by email. We had over 60 links up last month and I appreciate that so many of you are spreading the word about the hop by telling others about it and showing the Field Trip button. We have a new button to match the banner so be sure to update your blog with the new button as the old button will be deleted this month.

This site is for HOMESCHOOLER's, for sharing their field trips and methods of learning while outside the home. I am trying to distinguish this site from all the other wonderful blog hops in blog land. As a home schooler I am looking to support and encourage other homeschoolers to share in their learning adventures with their children that occur outside the home. To find out more please read the guidelines in the header bar above.

Now on to the Field Trips! Please take the time to read a few posts and share some blog love by commenting!

October 2011

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Autumn is here and with it comes trips to the pumpkin farms, apple farms and other fall activities. Autumn is my favorite time of year! I love the changes in the color of the trees, the smell of fresh apples and pumpkin, and the crispness of the weather. All make for a great time for learning and exploring outdoors!

This site is for HOMESCHOOLER's, for sharing their field trips and methods of learning while outside the home. I am trying to distinguish this site from all the other wonderful blog hops in blog land. As a home schooler I am looking to support and encourage other homeschoolers to share in their learning adventures with their children that occur outside the home. To find out more please read the guidelines in the header bar above.

I have enjoyed reading the many wonderful learning adventures homeschoolers are taking. I've gotten a few ideas of where to take my children for future trips and future learning experiences. If you have any ideas on how to make this site better and more friendly for everyone to use and participate in please leave a comment.









Now on to the Field Trips! Please take the time to read a few posts and share some blog love by commenting!

September 2011

School is in session for the majority of people; it doesn't matter if you are schooling at home, unschooling or something in between. We are all trying to get our children to learn and there is no better way than a field trip!

I thought this month I would pose a question for you to consider blogging about:

How do you incorporate learning into your field trips?

What I mean is do you have your children do any thing special like write a report, keep a journal, make a book or read books about what they have seen before or after the field trip. You may just let your kids explore the place and just soak it all in. There is no right or wrong way, just different ways. I am looking forward to seeing how others manage field trips and record them for their school. So if you can too, share how you manage your children's field trips and record their educational value!

If you would like to know how we manage recording our field trips go to Life's Adventure (my main blog site) and read what I do to assist my kids in retaining information from a field trip!

Now on to the Hop--Where are you and children going this month? See the guidelines and rules in header bar:)

August 2011

WOW what a great start to the new Hop!! Thanks to all the new followers, the wonderful comments and all the great link ups!!! It was nice to see the Field Trip Hop button on so many side bars. Thank you for passing on the word! The first month had 61 link ups and school has not even officially started for most home schoolers. I read some amazing trips and loved the pictures and information that was shared on each linkup.

I thought every other month or so I would do a spotlight on one lucky blogger and this month spotlight is Jen at Chestnut Grove Academy.

Jen was kind enough to answer a few questions so we could all get to know her better. If you have time please stop by and say HI!:)

Where do you live?

We just relocated from Maryland to Hawaii…I know rough life ;)

How many children do you have and how long have you home schooled?

I have 3 boys. My oldest is soon to be 5, followed by my 2 yo and my 8mo. I consider myself has a homeschooling mom from the start; we all are if you think about it. But I stared forming co-ops about 3years ago and doing more ‘organized’ activities at home. We ‘officially’ started homeschooling this past June as we started Kindergarten with my oldest.

Why did you choose to home school?

I choose to home school for many reasons. Probably the two reasons most of all are: 1. how children learn (particularly in early childhood) and how they are taught in school are two different ways, and 2. it’s not possible for one teacher to fully accommodate 20+ students, though there are a lot of good teachers out there that give it there all (plus some).

What is your philosophy of home schooling?

My philosophy of home schooling is to adjust my teaching to that of my children. Make it fun, follow their interests and expound from there. Once we start first grade we will tackle a more classical approach, but even still, I have pieced together lots of different things, and have tried to take a hands on approach to learning. That’s not to say I don’t have to remind myself of that constantly.

What is your favorite type of fieldtrip?

We like all sorts of field trips, children learn through doing, so we take every opportunity we can to take them out and let them do! I don’t think that all learning needs to be scheduled, so our field trips don’t always coincide with a theme, we just try to find the learning opportunity in all we do and every where we go!

How do you incorporate fieldtrips into learning?

I try to match some trips up with what we are ‘learning’ about, but we also seize the opportunity to go anywhere and everywhere we can whenever we can. I try to do at least one ‘adventure’ of some kind or another a week.

Name a fieldtrip you would love to do but haven’t yet

There are lots, as we’ve only been here 3 months…I look forward to exploring all the many beautiful places here on the islands! We will also be making some inter-island trips; I think I’m most looking forward to taking the kids to see the volcanoes on The Big Island, but that probably won’t be until 2012 or 2013.

Why did you choose to blog about your homeschooling?

I started blogging sporadically a year ago, just because it sounded like fun. I had gotten a lot of good ideas from other blogs, and thought I could share some ideas as well. I hadn’t messed with it much until we started up our Kindergarten year, a friend of mine’s sister (who also home schools) asked if I had a blog; I took it as a sign to get back on board. So, I started blogging again. I wanted to get my knowledge (I have a MS in Early Childhood Education) and ideas out there to others. Secondly, I wanted to advertise my book business (I have been an Usborne Books and More consultant for almost 5years now). Mostly, I thought it was a great way for my family to see all that my children are accomplishing in home school (many of them are skeptical of it) and give them the ability to stay close when they are so many miles away. There are so many bloggers that are a great inspiration to me, I hope maybe, just maybe I can inspire someone as well.

Jen at Chestnut Groove Academy also does a field trip hop on Fridays and it is not just for homeschoolers so go check her site out and link up!



Rules remain the same this month, link up any field trip that you and your home school children have taken for the entire month of August:)!!!! See the page at the top for additional guidelines if this is your first visit. Be sure to spread the word about this new Field trip Hop! The more that join in the more wonderful places we can visit!

Share your adventures and it may give other homeschoolers an idea of a field trip they can pursue with their children.

July 1, 2011

I have wanted to do a field trip hop for months now. I am just now getting this idea off the ground. My very good friend Lynda was kind enough to make the field trip banner and button way back in April when I first began talking about my hop idea. However, as you know life get in the way with things like home schooling, holidays and family visiting. However, today I can announce the first month of Field trip hopping can begin!!!


Homeschooling can take place anywhere and many homeschooling families utilize field trips as a way of re enforcing what their children are learning. I have been home schooling for nearly 3 years and my family go on lots of field trips. We love them!! So I thought others might feel the same way. So if you have taken your home school on a field trip this month, write about it and link up here so others can share in your adventures.

RULES keeping it simple

1. Link up all your home school field trip adventures for the whole month!

2. Holiday post are okay as long as learning was occurring, as homeschoolers we all know learning occurs everywhere:).

3. Comment on blogs -- everyone love getting comments on their post so share the love.

4. This is a new hop so grab a button and spread the word. The more that participate the more fun we will all have!

5. Follow your host at Life's Adventures -- I will follow back.

6. This is a family friendly blog any post deemed inappropriate will be remove.