Collage Friday - The Fantastic Field Trips

I cannot ask for more than my children to be active seekers of knowledge.  Self-education is the best form of education.

If you ever get a chance to see The Titanic exhibit, take advantage of the opportunity!

Our field trip was the perfect way for my daughter to wrap up a self-created unit study.

I took my daughter and a good friend of hers as a belated 11th birthday celebration.   Anna has had an obsession with all things Titanic for several months.  How perfect that her friend was also very interested in this very subject!  

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The Week of the Rather Nasty Fieldtrip ~ Collage Friday

It was quite a relaxing week around our house.  We did do a little bit of math, science, Bible, writing and history.   The kids also spent a ton of time playing our new favorite resource:  Rocket Math - a great app I put on the iPad.  Factor in the holiday, a day away on a field trip, and I'm not quite sure where the week went!  


I do have some exciting news:

  Homegrown Learners will be moving TOMORROW!    

I don't think there should be too much upheaval, but if you subscribe by email or Google Friend Connect you will need to resubscribe.  You can read all about the transition in a post I wrote earlier this week.  


Also.... more exciting news:

PicMonkey now has a photo collage option!   I LOVE PicMonkey - it's free and if you want to make great collages it is easy.   

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Explorations in Antiquity - A Fabulous Field Trip!

Have you heard about the new Field Trip Blog Hop?     I'm excited to be linking up today... we had probably the best field trip EVER (well, LOCAL field trip, that is!) this past week and I can't wait to share it with you!

As part of the summer VBS program at our church  ~ Paul's Journeys ~ (have you read my story about our church... it's a story about trusting God!), a group of 50 youth and adults journeyed to The Explorations in Antiquity Center in Lagrange, GA.   It is essentially a living museum of life in ancient times.    Wow -- we learned SO MUCH!    


In addition to the bonds being formed between all ages at the church...

I got a chance to be with adults and middle/high school youth (while the younger children went to a Bible Land Adventure Camp) and learn about life in ancient times.  We sat under a real goat's hair tent and got a glimpse into the life of a shepherd.  We made our own bread and played instruments.  

The children participated in an archaeological dig, unearthing real treasures and artifacts!  

Ever since we began Volume 1 of The Story of The World, Miss B has had a bit of an obsession with archaeology.   Can you tell she was in heaven doing this dig?? 
 

Here's my junior paleontologist, also enjoying himself.   This dig comes on the heels of an obsession with dinosaurs!

Here's Miss B listening to one of the guides, and also showing off her Giant Chambered Nautilus fossil!  

Finally, a group of youth from the "lookout", making sure the village was safe!

We finished the day with a trip to Dairy Queen and lots of silliness in the van on the way home.   It was a perfect way to spend our day - learning and forming bonds with our church family!