What is the coolest field trip you've taken recently?

Question

I homeschool my three kids. We just finished a unit on Russia. We chose it because Grandma is from there. While looking at some photos of Russian buildings, one of my kids asked what the inside of an onion dome looks like. Today, we located and visited a Russian Orthodox church in our city. We took Grandma with us. The kids were astounded by the incredible artistry of the building and were able to see up into the dome. They were VERY impressed. The priest was impressed by how much they knew about his native country. Grandma sat for a while and then started crying. She told my kids and the priest about a similar church, when she was a child. The army made the village stand there while they destroyed it. They lashed ropes around the huge iron cross upon the onion dome, and pulled it down. It was so heavy it sank almost 18 inches into the soil. My kids stared wide eyed during the story. As we left, they all stood and stared at the cross on top of the onion dome.

Answer 1

a fun and educational fild trip is the exploritoriom san francisco

Answer 2

What an amazing experience!  It's great to be able to teach your kids so much about their heritage (and make it special for grandma too!)  I was homeschooled but I can't say I ever took a field trip that cool.  But since they were so interested in the building itself, maybe you would like to get into a little more architecture and art from all over the world.

Our homeschool group once took a field trip to a sewage treatment plant!  Our family didn't go, but I thought that was a really uncommon place that a lot of kids would probably still wonder about.  It's definitely not as beautiful as a Russian Orthodox church, but it is definitely unique!

Answer 3

awww, there is nothing wrong with learning about your local grocery....it is where our sustenance of life comes from, kids should be connected to their food source....i am a homeschooling mom that is connected with three other moms...we all teach our kids independently, and we all teach together...i have the kids on thursdays for two hours and teach health and community....most of my classes are field trips...we discovered all of the local businesses of our walking locality, including the grocery, doggie day care, and consignment shop with home made goods....to foraging trips for medicinal herbs and edible plants and herbs to aromatic plants and flowers....we make things with what we collect and connect to it...but i catch you....homeschooling leaves large windows of opportunity to actually LEARN by experiencing

Answer 4

The reason your field trip was so great is because it was relevant.  Not only were your children impressed with the historical aspect, the religious aspect but also how it was all relevant to their personal life.  

That is what homeschooling is all about.   Even if a child would take the very same field trip with his school it wouldn't be the same.  They would be in a crowd of bored, chattering children, and probably would come home and tell you that they just saw a big weird building.  Your children had the added benefit of sharing the experience with two other generations; an experience that only enhanced the impact of what they learned from their studies.   (Never mind that they learned to understand Grandma better)

We haven't had many field trips at all for the last few years.

We went into an abandoned mine, through a hydro electric dam, visited Drumheller and the Creation Science Museum, the Ukrainian Village out side of Edmonton.  We also went to a little turn of the century Icelandic butter factory and school.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience with us.