One of the benefits to homeschooling is that it’s portable. We went on vacation the past week and I was able to bring school work with us (we tagged along with my husband while he traveled for work and when he was working we did school work). Before we left for our trip, we did our science and history at home and brought math, spelling, reading and language arts with us.

History: In MFW Adventures, we learned about the Dutch settlement in New York. We made our own butter-yum! We also started using a history pockets curriculum I found on the Revolutionary War: History Pockets: The American Revolution. I love it! It meets my son’s interest and academic ability right where he is. And my little one enjoyed coloring in pictures of soldiers.

Science: We did an experiment on yeast and watched it blow up a balloon. We also baked homemade bread.

Field Trips: While traveling, we visited an old gold mine in north Georgia. We went underground and learned how they mined for gold in the 1800′s. We saw the tools they used and learned how hard the miner’s worked. We then tried panning for gold ourselves-we even got a few specks to take home. The kids also panned for gems which they really enjoyed (it was a lot less work). This tour of the mind was a great follow up to our unit study on geology we did over the summer.

We also visited an old plantation while in Georgia. The kids got to see how people lived in the late seventeen hundreds to late eighteen hundreds. They saw an old school house, slave cabins, barns, doctor’s house, and of course the big plantation house.

We also did our nature walks while out of town. We did some hiking and spotted quite a bit of wild life. Actually, I think I was more excited about the wildlife we found than my kids were. (“Mom, this is boring standing here taking a picture of a butterfly!”)