by Patricia | Sep 5, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
Super Hero and I learned all about scientific observations and inferences at our Nature Day class. We observed a cricket and a mealworm through a magnifying glass and a microscope. We even collected samples of snake skin and a bit of a snake egg from which baby snakes...
by Patricia | Jul 28, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
“La Mitad del Mundo” or “The Middle of the World”, as it’s called, is a small town north of Quito, the capital of Ecuador in South America. Well, it used to be a small town about an hour north of Quito, back in the days when I lived in...
by Patricia | Jun 27, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
The Rapids Water Park in West Palm Beach was the place PATH picked to have our last field trip of the school year. This was surest the funnest way to keep celebrating our wonderful homeschooling adventure. The great thing about this park is that has...
by Patricia | May 29, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
We had the precious opportunity to visit the beautiful Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, South America, thanks to my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. They generously decided to treat all their children and grandchildren to this very unique and picturesque...
by Patricia | May 12, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
We all love a great website, one that engages us, makes us wonder, teaches us, inspires us or entertains us. Well, here’s a collection of websites that will do just that. This is an attempt to compile the most noteworthy virtual field trips, organized by topic...
by Patricia | May 5, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
We joined some of our HOME friends to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. (This field trip actually happened on late March). I had been meaning to go to this museum for a while, especially since they offer family days or afternoons, where you and your children get...