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| From left to right - Me, Amber's friend, Amber, Kevin, Mason, and Duncan in front all aboard the Santa Maria |
We had such a festive week here with multiple field trips during our overnight trip to Columbus! Monday and Tuesday were normal school days but on Wednesday morning we headed out to Columbus for an overnight educational mini-vacation focused on field trips. We had such a wonderful time!
Our first destination was the
reproduction of the Santa Maria. I have to admit that I am a HUGE living history buff so, of course, I absolutely
loved every minute of our tour. The children were not nearly as excited about touring the Santa Maria - they were looking forward to getting to the science center. Our tour guide was excellent, though, and all of the children ended up enjoying the tour very much.
Our tour guide was great at getting the children involved during the tour. For example, he recruited my boys for a hands-on demonstration of the ship's capstan. The tour group was extremely small so the children got to engage in every hands-on opportunity during the tour. Touring the ship helped to bring Columbus' journey to life for all of us.
After our boat tour, we headed over to
COSI for a fun-filled day of hands-on science fun! My boys always enjoy the
Gadgets Cafe where they get to take apart something electronic. This time, they got to take apart a computer.
One of the highlights of our day at COSI was watching the
Rat Basketball show. We've seen this show many times but watching the rats put the little ball in the basket never ceases to entertain us!
We spent the next day at Education Day at the
Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg. The boys purchased fantastic jester hats and wore them all day.
Not to be undone, the girls got feathers in their hair.
We attended a joust...
visited interesting shops...
played games (yes, Duncan made it all the way to the top!)...
visited some more interesting shops...
and enjoyed funnel cake! All in all, we had a fun-filled and festive day at the Renaissance Faire!
To bring this week in review to a close, I will end with five random statements that relate to our school year thus far:
- Amber finished Watership Down and since she was crying just as hard as I was when I reached the end of the novel, I know she treasured the book. We've been talking about the book at odd moments and, as always, I'm amazed by her literary insights.
- Our break from swim meets is fast coming to an end. Next week-end we have swim meets both Saturday and Sunday. All three of our children will be getting up on the blocks and racing next week-end!
- Mason finished making his volcano for science. It turned out to be a much bigger volcano than I anticipated. I'll be posting more about his project after he makes his volcano explode next week.
- Duncan designed his own insect for his science class this week. Duncan's meat-eating, cave-dwelling insect has multicolored legs and features eyes that are not equal in size. Very creative!
- Amber and I are very behind on my scheduled educational video watching for her history course. We'll be watching several episodes of 500 Nations this week-end, hopefully.
That was our Week in Review! Tomorrow, we'll be spending the day at Dave & Buster's with Mason, Duncan, and two of Mason's friends to start celebrating Mason's birthday! Pretty soon I'll have TWO teenagers in my house!
To read about what other bloggers have been doing this week, visit the
Weekly Wrap-Up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
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