Field Trip Fun!

Peanut is not in formal Preschool this year, but we are going to ECFE for a "Preschool Plus" class once a week and doing a lot of learning on our own at home.  He is so inquisitive and I love to help facilitate his learning.  A couple of days a week we work on our "Preschool Box" that includes activities such as writing his name, a drawing journal, time, money, and phonics, as well as various lessons on preschool age geography and science topics.  Here he is using his counting bears to work on some addition.

 

But the beauty of our little "homeschool" is the freedom to learn at our own pace, led by our interests, when we're in the mood, and the opportunity to play hooky for a field trip anytime we please. Smile.
Here are a two of our recent trips.  The first is a museum called "The Works".  We went with some friends from our Preschool Plus class and had a fabulous time!
 Sister is not just "along for the ride" any longer.  She is an active participant and it's so fun to watch.

 Learning about color

 This place had such a great variety of learning toys and activities.  I would love to have some of these at our house!  But then I would like the museum staff to come over at night to clean them up...

 The first thing Peanut did when he got to this table was pour out the container of silver balls.  On purpose.  They went everywhere.  I'm not sure why he did, but he was happy to help clean them up and then when our friend joined us the first thing he said to her was, "Don't spill those balls everywhere."  It was quite funny actually.

 One of the coolest exhibits was the huge two story contraption here.  It looked like it was made out of tinker toys and had about a billion moving parts.  Small plastic balls traveled up an elevator and through various tubes and spinners.  Very cool.  We watched it for a long time.

 The week before we headed down to the Science Museum for their special Preschool Day.  Peanut got in half price and Sister was free.  I love learning and a good deal! 

This was such a great model and it was much easier to explain here than trying to do so as I am holding our giant globe and trying not to trip over the cord of the lamp as I "orbit" in the living room, ha ha

 These fossils were really neat and we had fun speculating about the types of animals they might have been from.

 The play about the water cycle was informative and hilarious!  We caught a second show later on in the day about migration.  Just as good. 

 Our lunch selfie

 They did a good job sharing the dinosaurs... although Peanut controls who gets which dinosaur, car, person, toy of the moment, for now... smile.

 The museum has a riverboat attached right to it.  So fun for us to get to be in the captains seat!

 Look how little he looks in this exhibit! I learned as much as he did for sure.

 He really enjoyed these magnets and I thought they were kind of pretty and shiny.

 This was probably my favorite activity.  We made "airplanes" out of paper and pipe cleaners and flew them in this wind tunnel.  One of ours went so high it flew out of the top of the tube! 

 Besides these little Mommy and me field trips, Peanut has gone on a school field trip with his class. They took a tour of our local grocery store.  He got to take Daddy and that made it extra special. 

 

 

 Here is his class.  Best said they had a great time and they agreed that seeing the box-smasher was the highlight of the trip.

  Have a great week friends and family!