Here it is friends!  These were all the field trips I could think of.  I searched the web high and low and couldn’t find a simple list with links so I decided I needed my own.  I hope this will be really helpful to all homeschoolers.  If you don’t live in Washington state you are sure to come up with ideas from this list but also check out my simple list posted HERE.  If you would like a listing of all the Washington state museums visit HERE.

Albertsons Healthy Eater Tour
Amtrak Schools on Trains Downtown Seattle to Portland, Oregon
Argosy Cruise Ballard Locks Seattle
Berry Picking
Birch Bay Waterslides Birch Bay
Boehms Chocolate Issaquah July-September
Boeing Factory Tour Everett
Center for Wooden Boats Seattle
Cold Stone Ice Creamery
Corn Maze
Cougar Mountain Zoo Issaquah
Creation Station Lynnwood
Dawn’s Candy and Cake Kirkland
Dig It! Fossils Everett
Duroboat Boat Builder Snohomish
Eastside Audubon Kirkland
Edmonds Marine Sanctuaries Edmonds
Experience Music Project Seattle Downtown Seattle
Flying Heritage Collection Mukilteo
Fortune Cookie/Noodle Factory ID Seattle
Franz Bakery Seattle south Seattle
Funny Farm, The Monroe
Future of Flight Mukilteo
Group Movie
Great Harvest Bread Company Everett
Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
Jetty Island Everett
Jungle Playland Mt. Vernon
Jump Planet Bothell
Kids N’ Clay Lynnwood
Letterboxing
Microsoft Visitor Center Redmond
Mt.Rainier Scenic Railroad
Museums
Northwest Treasures
Northwest Trek Eatonville
Outback Kangaroo Farm Arlington
Paramount and Moore Theatre Tours Seattle
Petco
Pioneer Farm Eatonville
Pump It Up
Pumpkin Patch
Qwest Field Downtown Seattle
Radio Station
Remlinger Farms Carnation
Reptile Zoo Monroe
Ride the Ducks of Seattle Seattle
River Valley Ranch Fall City
Safeco Field Seattle
Scratch Patch Seattle
Seattle Aquarium Seattle Waterfront
Seattle Bug Safari Seattle
Seattle PI Newspaper Bothell plant
Sky High Sports- The Trampoline Place- Bellevue
Skyschool at the Space Needle Downtown Seattle
Snoqualmie Falls Snoqualmie
Snoqualmie Train Museum Snoqualmie
Soundbridge Seattle Symphony Music Discovery Center Downtown Seattle
StreamKeepers Academy Everett
Theo Chocolate Seattle
Washington State Ferry **
Wild Waves Federal Way (Homeschool Day in June)
Willows Rainbow Run Putting Course Woodinville
Wolf Camp Snohomish
Woodland Park Zoo Seattle

SEASONAL
Pumpkin Patch
Corn Maze
Berry Picking

For a general listing of field trips go here

**SCHOOL GROUPS – Passengers traveling in authorized school groups for institution-sponsored activities will be charged a flat rate of $1 per walk-on group or per vehicle of students and/or advisors and staff. All school groups require a letter of authorization. Vehicles and drivers will be charged the fare applicable to vehicle size. The special school rate is $2 on routes where one-point toll systems are in effect. Due to space limitations, authorized school groups will not be permitted to use one of the passenger-only routes without prior WSF approval.

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A list of field trip ideas.  Most are obvious but some, not so much.  It’s just nice to have a list!  If you live in Washington state and would like a complete list of local field trips, click HERE.

• Zoo
• Aquarium
• Fire Station
• Police Station
• Community Pool
• Ice Arena
• Local Bakery
• Museums
• Factories ~ Ice Cream, Candy, Milk, Bread, Bottling…
• Train Station
• University Campus
• Professional Ball Fields
• Local Gardens
• Farms, Dairies
• State Capitol, Mayors Office
• Veterinary Clinic
• Pet Shop
• Performing Arts Theaters – Plays, Music Performances
• State Historical Society
• National Parks
• Library
• Historical Churches
• Radio Stations
• TV Stations

Look for local speakers on the following topics:

• Personal Hygiene
• Dental Hygiene
• CPR Classes
• Fire Safety
• Crime Safety
• Poison Prevention

Please feel free to add to the list.  I will be posting a list more specific to western Washington in the near future.

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7 Wonders Museum- Silverlake, Mount St. Helens
A. Phimister Proctor Museum – Poulsbo
Adam East Museum and Art Center – Moses Lake
African-American Museum of Washington – Tacoma
American Hop Museum – Toppenish
American Museum of Radio – Bellingham
Anderson Island Historical Society – Anderson Island
Asotin Museum – Asotin
Bainbridge Island Museum – Bainbridge Island
Bellevue Art Museum – Bellevue
Bellevue Historical Society – Bellevue
Bellingham Railway Museum – Bellingham
Bigelow House Museum – Olympia
Black Diamond Museum – Black Diamond
Blackman’s Museum – Snohomish
Bothell Historical Museum – Bothell
Bremerton Historical Ships – Bremerton
Bremerton Naval Museum – Bremerton
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture – Seattle
Camp 6 Logging Museum – Tacoma
Carr’s One of A Kind in the World Museum – Spokane
Center For Wooden Boats - Seattle
Center on Contemporary Arts – Seattle
Cashmere Museum – Cashmere
Chewelah City Museum – Chewelah
Children’s Discovery Museum – Wenatchee
Children’s Museum of Seattle – Seattle
Children’s Museum of Spokane – Spokane
Children’s Museum of Tacoma – Tacoma
Clark County Historical Museum – Vancouver
Clymer Museum and Gallery – Ellensburg
Coast Artillery Museum – Port Townsend
Coast Guard Museum of The Northwest – Seattle
Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center – Stevenson
Columbia River Exhibition – Richland
Concrete Heritage Museum – Concrete
Cowlitz County Museum – Kelso
Dayton Historical Depot Society – Dayton
Dr. Frank R. Burroughs’ Home and Depot Muse – Ritzville
Dupont Historical Museum – Du Pont
East Benton County Historical Museum – Kennewick
Edmonds County Historical Society – Edmonds
Experience Music Project (EMP) – Seattle
Forks Timber Museum – Forks
Fort Lewis Military Museum – Fort Lewis
Fort Nisqually Historic Site – Tacoma
Fort Walla Walla Museum – Walla Walla
Fox Island Historical Society – Fox Island
Franklin County Historical Museum – Pasco
Frye Art Museum – Seattle
Gorge Heritage Museum – Bingen
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport – Aberdeen
Hands On Children’s Museum – Olympia
Henry Art Gallery – Seattle
Hydroplane and Race Boat Museum – Seattle
Imagine Children’s Museum – Everett
Island County Historic Society – Coupeville
Issaquah Historical Society – Issaquah
Jefferson County Historical Society – Port Townsend
Job Carr Cabin Museum – Tacoma
Kirkland Arts Center – Kirkland
Kirkman House Museum – Walla Walla
Kitsap County Historical Society Museum – Bremerton
Kittitas County Museum – Ellensburg
Klickitat County Historical Museum and Presby House – Goldendale
Lady Washington, Tall Ship – Aberdeen
Lake Chelan Historical Society – Chelan
Lake Stevens Historical Museum – Lake Stevens
Lewis County Historical Museum – Chehalis
Lincoln County Historical Museum – Davenport
Living Museum of Letterpress – Seattle
Log House Museum – Seattle
Lopez Island Historical Museum – Lopez Island
Makah Cultural and Research Center – Neah Bay
Marsh’s Free Museum – Long Beach
Maryhill Museum of Art – Goldendale
Marymoor Museum – Redmond
McChord Air Museum – Mc Chord Afb
McCleary Historical Society – Mc Cleary
Meeker Mansion – Puyallup
Mindport Exhibits – Bellingham
MOG : Museum of Glass – Tacoma
Museum of History and Industry – Seattle
Museum of Northwest Art – La Conner
Museum Stevens County – Colville
Naval Undersea Museum – Keyport
Nordic Heritage Museum – Seattle
North Spokane Farm Museum – Spokane
Northern Pacific Railway Museum – Toppenish
NorthWest Carriage Museum – Raymond
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture – Spokane,
Northwest Seaport – Seattle
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park – Eatonville
Norwesco Telephone Pioneer Museum – Marysville
Odyssey Contemporary Maritime Museum – Seattle
Okanogan County Historical Museum – Okanogan
Olympic Flight Museum – Olympia
Orcas Island Historical Museum – Eastsound
Pacific County Historical Society – South Bend
Pacific Science Center – Seattle
Pearson Air Museum – Vancouver
Pend Oreille County Historical – Newport
Pig War Museum – Friday Harbor
Pioneer Farm Museum – Eatonville
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium – Tacoma
Polson Museum – Hoquiam
Port Angeles Fine Art Center – Port Angeles
Port Townsend Marine Science Center – Port Townsend
Puget Sound Maritime Society – Seattle
Quilcene Historical Museum – Quilcene
Rainshadow Natural Science Foundation – Sequim
Renton History Museum – Renton
Ritzville Railroad-Depot Museum – Ritzville
River Life Interpretive Center – Skamokawa
Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art – Bellevue
Rothschild House, the – Port Townsend
San Juan Historical Museum – Friday Harbor
Sea and Shore Museum – Port Gamble
Seattle Aquarium – Seattle
Seattle Art Museum – Seattle
Seattle Museum of The Mysteries – Seattle
Sedro Woolley Museum – Sedro Woolley
Sequim Museum and Arts Center – Sequim
Shafer Museum Ghost Town – Winthrop
Shanaman Sports Museum – Tacoma
Shoreline Historical Museum – Seattle
Skagit County Historical Museum – LA Conner
SLAM / Soap Lake Art Museum – Soap Lake
Slater Museum of Natural History – Tacoma
Snohomish County Museum and Historical Associati – Everett
Snoqualmie Valley Historical – North Bend
Spanaway Historical Society – Spanaway
Spokane Valley Heritage Museum – Spokane Valley
Steilacoom Historical Museum – Steilacoom
Steilacoom Tribal Museum – Steilacoom
Stonerose Interpretive Center – Republic
Sumner Ryan House Museum – Sumner
Sunnyside Museum – Sunnyside
Suquamish Museum – Poulsbo
Tacoma Art Museum – Tacoma
Tacoma Historical Society – Tacoma
Tenino Depot Museum – Tenino
The Harold E. Lemay Museum – Tacoma
The Museum of Flight – Seattle
Thorp Mill Town Historical Society – Thorp
Three Rivers Children’s Museum – Richland
Toppenish Museum – Toppenish
Veterans Memorial Museum – Centralia
Wahkiakum County Museum – Cathlamet
Washington State Historical Society – Tacoma
Washington State History Museum – Tacoma
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center – Wenatchee
Westport Maritime Museum – Westport
Whale Museum, the – Friday Harbor
Whatcom Museum of History and Art – Bellingham
White River Valley Museum – Auburn
Whitman Historical Society – Colfax
Wing Luke Asian Museum – Seattle
Woodland Park Zoological Gardens – Seattle
Working Waterfront Museum – Tacoma
World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame – Long Beach
Yakima Electric Railway Museum – Yakima
Yakima Valley Museum – Yakima

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Cramberry could be useful in many ways.  It is a virtual flashcard program that you can use to test yourself.  Create sets of online flashcards with questions on the front and your answers on the back and then test yourself.  This would work great for scripture memorization, vocabulary, math facts or virtually anything you want to study and memorize.  You can mark the cards that you answered correctly and incorrectly so that  it will re-show your incorrect cards until you have them right.

-”Study Less, Remember More”

Intelligent scheduling

Cramberry builds a studying schedule for you based on your progress on each card, letting you study more quickly and efficiently.”

Take your cards with you

Study away from your computer by printing each set as either cut-out flash cards or a list of terms, or use our iPhone app.

Thousands of pre-made cards

Choose from thousands of sets made by other Cramberry users and share your own flash cards with the world.

Clean & simple interface

Cramberry is carefully designed to be simple, elegant, and easy to use, letting you focus on studying.

Cramberry

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These were the resources my kids used for their science fair project on popcorn.  We recommend this project.  It was very fun!

Cool Science Projects

Easy Science Fair Projects

Experiment Resources

Science Buddies

How Stuff Works TLC Channel – Great video on the processing of popcorn kernels.

Science Experiments You Can Eat

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Presidents’ Day, originally known as Washington’s Birthday, falls on the third Monday of February.  As the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday,  February 22. By the mid-1980s, with a push from advertisers, the term “Presidents’ Day” began its public appearance.  This day has since expanded the focus of the holiday to honor another President born in February, Abraham Lincoln, and often other Presidents of the United States. Although Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, was never a Federal holiday, approximately a dozen state governments have officially renamed their Washington’s Birthday observances as “President’s Day”, “Washington and Lincoln Day”, or other such designations.

There are many websites to read about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  President Washington is almost universally admired.  President Lincoln is viewed from several different perspectives which I won’t go into in this post, but may be worth further study.  Below are two sites that interest me and that I will be using on Monday with the kids.

Read about George Washington here.

Read about Abraham Lincoln here.

Now for some activities to help celebrate the day.  Dress up like the Presidents of the past with this fun “Powdered Wig“.  This looks so easy and fun.  We don’t do a lot of crafts in our home but this one has to be done.  I just need to run over to the paint store to get the paper painters hats. I think it will be fun for all of us to put on our wigs and read about these two popular Presidents.

If the wig isn’t easy enough, you can fall back on these wonderful coloring pages.  I am thankful that I downloaded these last year from the White House Kid’s website.  The Obama administration has since removed them from the site.  You are free to use and pass them on as long as they are used for personal use and not for profit.

Download a full coloring book of all 41 Presidents:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Download a George Washington coloring page only

Download a Abraham Lincoln coloring page only

Happy Presidents’ Day!!

Original posting February 13th, 2009

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Here are some ideas to plan a fun day for celebrating the holiday of the heart.

Do something totally different this year; a unit study of the human heart:
Purchase a beef heart at your local butcher.  You can discuss the chambers of the heart, and the blood vessels.  Compare this heart to a human heart diagram or model.  Talk about the differences and likenesses.

Linkage:

Diagram of the Human Heart

Heart Diagram for Labeling

Study of the Human Heart

History of Valentines Day Videos

Valentine Puppet Craft

I Love You in Many Languages

Printable Valentine Stationary

Printable Puzzles and Activities

The following is one of my favorite posts from February 2009

The fruit of the Spirit is love.  This is the first quality of the Spirit divinely inspired by God. You will find two kinds of love in scripture.  Philos love which is a friendly love or the love one has toward a friend or companion.   Agape love which is a caring love, the first quality of the Spirit.  Agape is a divine capacity to love.  Only God is capable of perfect Agape but we should strive to love as He loves us.  Agape is patient, kind, does not envy, does not boast, and it is not proud.  1Corinthians 13:4-8

Agape seeks the highest and best for another.  It is not self seeking, thus the ability to be slow to anger.  Psalm 145:8.  Agape keeps no record of wrongs and does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  Praise God for His Agape upon us!

If you want to learn more about Agape love and other qualities of the Spirit, I recommend taking Beth Moore’s study Living Beyond Yourself, Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit.

Happy almost Valentines Day!

Here are some bible verses in the romantic King James version to help you celebrate this holiday of love:

Fill your heart with Gods word

Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Psalm 119:11

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.  Proverbs 3:5-6

For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.  1 Samuel 16:7

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness.  Romans 10:10

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.  Mark 12:30

Search me, oh God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts.  Psalm 139:23

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Psalm 37:4

Verses that speak of God’s Love

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 3:16

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.  Jeremiah 31:3

God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:8

Behold, what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.  1 John 3:1

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  1 John 4:10

We love Him, because He first loved us.  1 John 4:19

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PLEDGE TO THE CHRISTIAN FLAG

I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag and to the Savior for whose Kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe.

PLEDGE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

PLEDGE TO THE BIBLE

I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word, I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path and will hide its words in my heart that I might not sin against God.

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Church of the Good Shepherd and Gung Fu for Christ
present our Camp for

K-8th Graders 10am-2:30pm Monday-Friday

Camp 1: March 29- April 2 and/or
Camp 2: April 5-9

Our fun will include Bible teaching from Pastor Tim, Gung Fu training from Sifu Steve, archery, pugil stick fighting, airsoft target shooting, star/knife throwing, nunchuck training, games, crafts, and much more!

*All safety equipment provided.

Your tuition will include a Gung Fu t-shirt, training equipment, and snacks.

$80 for your first child, 2nd child 10% off, and each additional family members are 1/2 price.

Please call Lisa @425-512-6225 or the Church of the Good Shepherd @ 425-774-4474 to pre-register with a $15 non-refundable deposit.

Church of the Good Shepherd is located at 2609 Larch Way, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Gung Fu for Christ is really fun and energetic.  I highly recommend this camp and the weekly classes as well.  Your kids will absolutely love it!  If you are interested in signing up for homeschool martial arts classes with Gung Fu for Christ you are welcome to enroll now as well.  This is a great way to get your kids moving and in shape while learning self defense.  You can find more information and pricing at their blog or at their website GungFuforChrist.com.

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Offer valid only at Grand Mound, WA location 1/4/10 – 3/10/10 on a per night basis. Offer valid Monday – Wednesday, there is an upcharge for Thursday thru Sunday reservations. Offer based on four guests in a Family Suite. Offer must be mentioned at time of reservation. This offer is based upon availability and 2010 standard rates. Limited to the first 50 rooms sold per arrival date. May not be valid during holiday or blackout periods. Not valid with any other discount or promotional offer. Offer expires 3/10/10.

To Book Your 10 or More Rooms, Please Contact: Nikki Vaccaro at 360.347.0992 or nvaccaro@greatwolf.com

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