Planning ahead for next school year after a fun talk today with a friend!
Field Trip Ideas 2012-2013
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Category Archives: Field Trips
Library Safety Class
This afternoon our wonderful library had a guest presentation from the local shelter, Friends of the Family. They had books to check out, puppets, and a video about personal safety. While geared to kids in 1st and 2nd grade, it was great for our 3 year old up through our 10 year old (as big kids can always use a review, right?) They talked about the three rules (Use your words, Run away, Tell someone) and different situations (strangers, hurt, touch) and types of touch (good, bad, confusing.) I like that they also covered the difference between surprises (good things we’ll eventually tell) and secrets (something we don’t tell.)
Especially in light of some recent concerns with a couple of our kids this was a well timed class. We’re also reviewing our Kid Power curriculum.
Homeschooler Day at the Dallas Zoo
Sorry for the last minute notice but it’s not too late – homeschooler day at the Dallas zoo is MONDAY and it’s $5 per person 3 years old and up, parking is $7, and the additional Safari back pack is $5. Here’s the form to print out and bring on Monday (online registration has ended.)
Activities in DFW
There are handouts I’ve found online or been given from classes:
Art Museums
Dallas Museum of Art
Sixth Floor Museum
Dallas Firefighters Museum
American Museum of Miniature Arts
Kimball Art Museum-Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum-Fort Worth
Nasher Sculpture Center
Texas Sculpture Center-FriscoHistorical Sites
Sixth Floor Museum
Dallas Firefighters Museum
Cowgirl Hall of Fame-Fort Worth
Chestnut Square Historic Village-McKinney
Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park
Log Cabin Village
Cattle Drive-Stockyards Fort Worth
Cultures Museum-Dallas
Boy Scout Museum-IrvingNature
Heard Museum-McKinney
Owens Spring Creek Farm-Richardson
Dallas Arboretum
Fort Worth Botanic Gardens
Fort Worth Nature Center
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Texas Discovery Gardens
Sharkarosa Ranch-Lake Ray Roberts
Dinosaur Valley State Park-Glen Rose
Bass Pro Shop-Grapevine
Cabelas-Fort Worth
Bat World Sanctuary-Mineral Wells
Dallas World Aquarium
Dallas Nature Center
Dallas Aquarium
Bolin Wildlife Museum-McKinneyDavis Boulevard Catfish Ponds
Frank Buck Zoo-Gainesville
Fort Worth Zoo
Dallas ZooOddities
Palace of Wax and Ripley’s Believe it or Not
Transportation
McKinney Trolley
C.R. Smith AA Museum
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Frontiers of Flight Museum
Grapevine Vintage Railroad
DFW Airplane ObservatoryTours and Factories
Mary Kay Cosmetics-Dallas
Mrs. Baird’s Bread-Fort Worth
Bureau of Printing and Engraving-Fort WorthJanuary
Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
1st T dma
W fort worth modern
permanent exhibit free, visiting half price Tuesdays – Kimball
weds – half price fort worth zoo, one day spring & fall homeschoolers half price day
The Opera!
Today the oldest three kids and Kit went to see “Dr. Miracle” at the Windspear theater with the Dallas opera. It was a daytime show for kids but our friend is in it and got them some comp tickets. Here they are in their box seats:
B’s report: There were lots of people on the stage and they sing. And he liked that he knew one of the singers. (The the father of a girl in B’s class at church.)
C’s report: It was pretty good! I find it a bit hard to explain the play since about half the time I didn’t even understand what they were saying. It made my legs a bit tingly because there were gaps in the steps. (They were scared by the height.) The chandelier started to go into the ceiling when it was time… (Then he started talking too fast and I couldn’t get it all down.)
M’s report: To come…
While they were gone I took the youngest three to visit a longtime friend of mine, she was my best friend in Louisiana my freshman year then also moved to Texas for the following year. Their family is recently back in the area and our girls had a blast playing together while we visited. Fun morning for everyone!
Six Flags Read to Succeed Sign Up 2011!
Not Back to School Park Date
It’s a chance for families to meet some other homeschoolers, though unfortunately there were lots of cancellations as many of the parents ended up needing to work on the Saturday. But it was still wonderfully fun!
Here’s our family at the first Not Back to School picnic in 2007!
UNT Science
Summer Reading Program
After 10 days of reading (or being read to) for 20 minutes a day we turned in our logs and got our first price – a book! Mom had the final veto power so we got a mix of what I felt I didn’t mind having in the house. 🙂 And everyone gets a book, babies through grown ups.
A dragon book, the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Harry Potter (covers all seven books) and an Encyclopedia Brown:
Magic Schoolbus, Whacky Atlas, Diary of a Worm:
She was swaying back and forth with excitement, it’s fuzzed! A fairy tale compilation and a Pinkalicious easy reader for the big girls to share:
So go sign up for the summer reading program! Most years for the second set of 10 days the kids get a coupon for a local restaurant, like Coldstone or this last year it was Jason’s Deli (and we JUST last week let B use up his coupon for a solo date with Kit.) This year they have by age things like a bip, “mood cup”, pencils, etc. The third set of 10 days gets them a pass to the library waterpark night.
Science Museum
We decided today needed to be a science field trip so we packed a lunch and packed some kids and headed down to Dallas.
Is it terrible that we were so amused by our kids cowering from the dinosaurs? They move. It was pretty creepy:
As were the bugs, but the kids loved those and the snakes and turtles and fish and lizards. They dressed up as bugs and played in a spiderweb:
We also did some rock climbing, exploring a three way mirror, dug for dinosaur bones, and milked a cow that produced water!
Then we had our picnic lunch by the lake where the kids explored a sculpture bridge on the lake, B begged for a ride on the swan paddle boats, and J terrorized the pigeons by throwing bits of his sandwich at them and chasing them down to hold them. It was a great day, and thankfully the anti-carseat Miss O napped on the way going and coming back. (Waking up at the end to remind us that she HATES her carseat and we won’t be taking any trips anytime soon.)