Apples and Peaches

We had a fun day today at Teach Academy on our first field trip with the homeschool group we joined! What a blessing to have a great network of homeschooling families for friendship, fellowship and support! It has really been a joy for us starting out in this new journey in our lives.

So let's talk field trips!!!

 I'm trying to take the kids somewhere to do something every week. Trying to "live outside the box!" Love this great big world we live in and learn in.

Today we went to an apple orchard! The weather was beautiful and the kids had so much fun! 

The kids and apples

Ellison got an apple and immediately started to eat it! She is 14 months today and has had cut up apples before, but never a whole apple! She knew what to do though! 

The oldest two have been to the orchard before on class field trips and we of course had a blast, but today we were not on a time schedule. After the tour, we didn't have to rush back to "beat the bell." 

It was SO nice to stay and enjoy the great weather and be on our own time schedule.

When we got home:

Sticking with the fruit theme! We talked about Georgia, (Tomorrow we eat peaches! Apples won today!) our state of the week. We got out our big map and learned how to use a map. 

We talked about a scary concept for them: life before GPS, Siri, and mapquest, lol! 

Then, we used map skills to look up cities that started with their first initials and YES! THANK YOU GEORGIA for not disappointing a 3 year old! TWO TOWNS STARTED WITH "Z"!!