What my kids learned "outside the box" on our Amistad trip:
1) How to choose the best rocks for skipping
2) Why it is possible to skip a rock (did you know they actually built a "rock skipping machine" to determine that the best angle for skipping is 20 degrees?.... me either)
3) God even created deer to have a routine
4) My 11 year old got to cut with a radial saw and weld for the first time
5) How to enclose a porch
6) How to drive..... we love golf-carts ;)
7) How fossils form and that there are SO MANY to be found when the lake is low!
8) What a real, live, icky centipede looks like....shudder...
9) Cacti are better to stay away from and are best if NOT stepped on!
10) That being a homeschooled kid is awesome.... well, I'm not sure if they get it yet, but I SURE DO!
As a side note, thanks to my brother, we are HUGE fans of Smarter Everyday on youtube!!! Here is a video he just released about skipping stones. You will just love this family guy who teaches physics in such a way that young and old get something out of everything he talks about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvgGU8p8wE&feature=em-subs_digest
