Midway through the year, we were asked to be part of another group. This is a new field trip group. As a group we take a field trip every other week. Each parent takes turns making the field trip arrangements. So far the group has taken field trips to a local grocery store, a local pet store, the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, Skyline Caverns, the Warren Heritage Society museum, and Blandy Farm State Arboretum.
I've been happy with this group too. The boys favorite trip so far has been Skyline Caverns. Our guide was a lot of fun. He joked with the kids and showed them tons of really neat stuff. They were all pretty enthralled by the anthracites, which have only been found in Skyline Caverns and one other cave in Germany. We have trips planned to the Bug Box and Herr's Snack Factory in the near future.
Having different people do the planning for each trip not only means less work for each individual parent, it also means that each parent brings new ideas for field trips. (I find that I get stuck in a mental rut--what is the nearest museum--when I am planning trips.) We also get group or educational rates for admission to most of our trips.
Some of the parents are a little more serious about this group than others. It is often difficult to give an exact number of attendees because many parents don't RSVP or even worse just don't show up the day of the field trip! But, the boys enjoy the field trips. I feel the trips help the boys to see that the stuff we learn about at home applies to places outside of our house and our family. This is also a new group, so I think it will evolve and stabilize.
I'll provide some links to the field trip locations below and I hope to provide more information about each of our trips in the future.
Giant Foods, Petco Pet Stores, A. C. Moore Craft Stores - www.fieldtripfactory.com
Blandy Farm State Arboretum - www.virginia.edu/blandy
Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum - www.discoverymuseum.net
Skyline Caverns - www.skylinecaverns.com
Warren Heritage Society - www.warrenheritagesociety.org
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