I have been thinking about this -- we are still a ways away from official homeschooling (boys are 23 months and 3 1/2 years old), but those of you who homeschool, do you try to incorporate "homeschool" stuff into your DL trips -- or those of you who live in the area - do you plan homeschool DL trips? As I know some places you have to have a certain number of hours each year of homeschooling...I would love to hear ideas on lessons that you could do for this...

Here are some of the ideas that I had (however good or bad they might be)...

Have a lesson in animation - visit the animation building, and then have an art project to create your own new animated character

At DCA, you could incorporate the history behind Paradise Pier and the old amusment parks - as well as history and geography of California

Lessons in money/finances - have them help plan the trip - with budgets and such - finding good deals on travel/tickets, etc. Also in the park, they might have a goal of getting gifts for x number of friends with x number of dollars - budgeting and figuring out how much they can spend on each friend.

This may be more difficult (and obviously for older kids) - have some physics lessons with the rides -- maybe try to find out how long some of the tracks (by inquiring at city hall) are for various rides and have them time them to figure out how fast the rides go - or if you can find out how fast it goes and the length of the ride, then you can calculate in feet how long the tracks are

Disney Gallery - art appreciation

General Sociology - observing how people interact and react in certain situations -- discuss with kids what it means and have them write about it

I would love to hear other peoples' creative ideas for this...

Boy, a whole new reason to homeschool....and move to SoCal!!!!!!!!!

yeah, no kidding -- actually dh and i would LOVE to move to so cal -- and honestly our ONLY reason is DL!! We love it so much!

dh is in the air force, so we'd have to get transferred there - Los Angeles AFB would be my first choice - live in Long Beach (1/2 way between DL and the base), or Edwards AFB - about 2 1/2 hours from DL

of course here, we're near family -- not that we see them much

Well we homeschool and are moving to CA. Hmm, I like this idea of incorporating trips to DL into our HS'ing. Learning can happen anywhere so why not at DL too?! :D

I have been thinking about this -- we are still a ways away from official homeschooling (boys are 23 months and 3 1/2 years old)

Don't sell yourself short! I'm sure you ARE officially homeschooling already! :)

Don't sell yourself short! I'm sure you ARE officially homeschooling already! :)

This is so true!

We homeschool, and on our last trip to Disneyland, we did a little bit of California history at DCA, but not much more. Oh, wait...we talked about how all the plants in Tomorrowland are edible. That's science, right? We didn't really plan to school on our trip. But I feel like I'm always teaching my son.

The best thing about homeschooling and Disneyland...you can go in the off-season!

Great math options all over the park:
• prices of food word problems
• Use cars to figure multiplication: i.e. you can get 1-3 people on a Mr. Toad vehicle -- what is the most and least amount that would be in 10 cars?

English:
•Grab a brocheure and ask the kids to identify nouns, verbs and adjectives

Directions/Map Reading
•Use the map and ask which is farther North: X or X