Field Trip Fridays - Fun, Educational Homeschool Field Trips

Did you know that membership with HSLDA includes . . .

⭐ Personalized legal advice related to homeschooling
⭐ A full year of The Home School Court Report magazine
⭐ Timely news about homeschooling across the country
⭐ Attorney-designed forms for submitting paperwork
⭐ Templates and how-tos for high school transcripts
⭐ Member savings from over 30 national companies
⭐ 15% off HSLDA Online Academy's live courses for grades 7–12

They even offer grants to qualifying families for money to use on homeschool supplies!

Now is the perfect time to join. And here's how you can get a discount on your membership fee:

1) go to this link: https://hslda.org/join and click Start your membership
2) during registration, use discount group code 306809 under Add group affiliation

Same us, new website! 👀🤩🥳

Are you registered for our 2026/2027 Field Trip year? You're going to want to be!

Please check out our website, and select ' Become a Member' to join us for $45 - which covers your whole family for a full year.

Website: www.fieldtripfridays.org

We can't wait for you to field trip with us! 😎🤠

We are a proud Texas Children in Nature partner! 🍃🩵

One of our favorite times of the year is back! Who is going to Texas Homeschool Expo tomorrow (Friday) or Saturday? 😍

Location: Hurst Convention Center
Cost: $5 per adult, free for children + free parking
When: Friday, June 5 & Saturday June 6

Buy tickets here: https://jleventpro.ticketspice.com/2026-texas-homeschool-expo-dfw

Today we pause to honor the men and women who gave everything so that we could live, raise our families, and educate our children freely.

The freedom to homeschool, to choose how and where our children learn, is one we don't take for granted. It exists because of the sacrifices made by those we remember today.

From our Field Trip Fridays family to yours, happy Memorial Day. Hug your people a little tighter today. ❤️

Was your family in public school before switching to homeschooling? What caused the shift for you?

The interesting part is that schools keep this an “enrollment crisis” instead of asking why so many families are leaving in the first place.

Texas public schools just saw their first major non-pandemic enrollment decline in nearly 40 years — and the numbers are honestly pretty shocking.

According to new Texas education data:

• Texas public schools lost over 76,000 students in a single year
• Enrollment dropped from about 5.54 million students to 5.47 million
• Experts are projecting another 100,000 student decline by 2030
• One demographer warned Texas could lose 120,000 more students NEXT year alone
• Large urban districts have lost nearly 170,000 students over the past decade
• Some districts are already closing campuses because of shrinking enrollment and funding losses

And what’s interesting is this is happening while Texas itself is still growing in population.

A lot of families are simply choosing different options now — homeschooling, hybrid programs, private schools, charter schools, online education, co-ops, flexible learning models, etc.

Whether people agree with that shift or not, it’s very obvious that parents are rethinking education in a way they weren’t 10 years ago.

And honestly… I don’t think this is just a temporary trend. I think it’s a massive cultural shift happening in real time.

Thank you to FC Dallas for welcoming us for a session of STEAM FC, where we learned the real-world application of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) through the lens of soccer!

And it was nice to be accompanied by other homeschool friends, The Homeschool Network and Fellowship Homeschool!

We look forward to another FC Dallas session in our 2026/2027 Field Trip year.

Last week, our families spent the day at a The Allen Americans Professional Hockey Club School Day game -- and the Allen Americans went above and beyond to make it a real learning experience.

The Allen Americans provided educational booklets connecting the game to real learning, included lunch, and then after the final buzzer, players Trevor LeDonne, Hank Crone, and Chase Maxwell came back out on the ice to give our group a private skating lesson.

For some of our families, this was a first. A first professional sporting event. A first time on the ice. Some of our families are seasoned hockey fans, who received a brand new experience.

This is what experiential learning looks like when a community shows up for kids. We are so grateful to Julia and the entire Allen Americans organization for making it possible, and we cannot wait to bring our families back this Fall semester.