Last week we attended a field trip hosted by one of the families in our homeschool group to an indoor play area (more like a play warehouse!) which had probably like twenty little themed areas, where kids could dress up, climb, dig, shop..... you name it. It was kind of crowded because there were other groups there as well, but the kids had fun anyway, and were very cooperative for the rest of the day after hours of being totally in charge at this place! I didn't get all my pictures on here cause my phone is uploading the pictures weirdly today.. but you get the idea!
Thanks to my husband's company, we have a family membership at a rock climbing gym nearby, so we have a tenative goal of going once a week a least. For the most part we just hang out in the bouldering area, which doesn't require us to use ropes and everything, and we take turns creating challenges for each other. Although this activity seems to be purely related to homeschooling via the physical education aspect, I'm also beginning to see that it might help them related mathmatical and scientific concepts as well... First, they have to judge distances and patterns in determining what paths they are going to take and they certainly understand more about gravity and friction when the jump from the wall to the crash mat, and ask why their fingers feel hot after climbing. Eventually I'm planning on discussing with them, how in nature cracks and crevices form in different kinds of rock so that people can climb with out artificial holds like in the gym.
Here are some pictures: :)
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