Introduction

Schools are being asked to cut the budget all over. Our school has elected to remove most field trips in order to focus money on teachers, and other school needs. Some schools don't take field trips for insurance reasons, budget cuts, transportation or location, etc. There are schools who still do the fabulous field trip. I happen to love field trips and am sad to see them go. So, I want to explore how to do these sorts of things on our own as a family, or with friends. I thought that in the process of me doing this, there may be other families out there, especially from our school, who would like to join the process and make some field trip fun. So, here is a blog for that. It will take a while to fill this in, but I plan to have field trips in Colorado listed for every grade level using Core Knowledge curriculum sequencing, in combination with our additional curriculum for our school. I hope that other parents will pitch in on the comments with more ideas too. Most of the ideas will be in the Pikes Peak region around Colorado Springs. But, you will find Denver and other front range areas included. I will likely add some others as well, in case you are traveling, you could make it tie in. Maybe. Have fun!