Tag: field trips
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Field Trip: Zoo Atlanta
Yesterday we took a field trip to Zoo Atlanta. I hadn’t been since I was about Kathryn’s age! Ken was able to come with us, too — so in addition to really great company, we also had a great camera man in tow. [Love you, Honey!] I’m seldom in pictures (especially on my blog), so…
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Field Trip: Georgia Aquarium
We’ve been studying marine animals in our biology study, Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day, so when friends offered us discount coupons to the Georgia Aquarium, we enthusiastically accepted! They are doing the same biology study in their own homeschool, so we invited them to come along, too! Another fun aspect of the day: the…
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Nutcracker Field Trip: Week before Christmas break
ONE more week til our Christmas break, and we are all glad! One of the moms in our homeschool group is from South Africa, and this is the time of year they are finishing up for the year — we decided we should adopt the South African way of doing things! {grin} Next week is…
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Field Trip: Honeybees!
Yesterday we had an indoor field trip/nature study about honeybees. A local beekeeper named Brian, who does presentations at many area schools, came to our church for our homeschool group. He did a great job! We have studied bees before, but Kathryn and I both learned so much! In Roman times, honey was worth it’s…
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Field Trip: Atlanta Botanical Gardens
I had grand plans at the beginning of the school year that we would do a field trip each month. Ha! That didn’t happen, but there’s always next year, and this was a busier year than I expected when I made those plans. Anyway, yesterday we did field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I…