There are many reasons I LOVE homeschooling!
Just one of the MANY reasons I love to homeschool include all of the fun trips we get to take, and call it a field trip day.
Don’t you wish that your child’s school would send them to do more hands on learning, instead of stuck in a boring classroom behind a desk all day?
Me too! That is how real learning is supposed to be!
Students, especially kids, were never designed to learn at a desk for 8 hours a day!
Schools should DEFINATLY be taking way more field trips throughout the school year! The downside is, lack of school funding prevents schools from doing their best for your kid. (Just another reason why I hate public schools!).
Favorite Yearly Field trip
Nearly every single year, the kids and I will take a field trip to a local farm. And we have been to a bunch!
While we lived in South Carolina, they have an annual strawberry festival each year. We got to go explore, ride a hay ride, pet some animals, and of course, pick some strawberries!
If your kids are fruit fanatics like mine, then strawberry picking is a MUST!
Half of the fun is eating as you go!
Pig racing
How it works
For many fruit picking farms, you can either pay by the pound, or pay by the bin. This year, we chose to get one huge bin to fill with strawberries, for one set price for the bin.
If you are interested in going to pick-it-yourself farms, I would suggest going in the beginning of the fruit season. The upside is there are better fruits to pick from. The down side is that there tend to be more crowds. (We usually go later to avoid the crowds).
If you go towards the end of the fruit season, there are less crowds, which means no lines for fun activities like hay rides. Unfortunately, it also means that the best fruit is probably already picked, and you might be left with less desirable fruit.
I prefer going mid season, not too crowded, but still enough good fruit to pick. But, to be honest, we really just go whenever we can find the time. When schedules are too busy, I’m not planning my field trips around a season.
School Day
Most importantly, this counts as a school day for us! This kids actually learn a ton, create family bonding, and form beautiful memories.
Some states require a certain amount of school days within a school year, and lucky for us, this day counts too. And no stuffy learning stuck behind a desk!
