trippin’

field trippin’ that is.  it’s one of my kids’ favorite parts about homeschooling.  that and all the playdates co-op meetings.

so last week, we had the awesome opportunity to meet up with some families from church at the cabrillo marine aquarium and best of all, to see auntie esther again!  remember auntie esther?  she’s on the list of my kids’ all-time favorite people.  top ten, definitely.  🙂

auntie esther was all ready for us with a lesson that included a story about fish babies and lots of hands-on activites…

like looking through microscopes (mikey’s favorite).

and pretending to be fish (mikey’s favorite again).

and looking for fish hiding in the seaweed (mikey’s favorite yet again).

and then a mini field trip within the field trip– a walking tour over to the salt marsh.

walking and discussing life with her favorite big-girl friends (allie’s favorite).

finding her own girl-crew to hold hands with (lauren’s favorite).

onto the docks to do some more learning about native fish and birds.

and then we got to visit the touch pool! (mikey’s favorite, yes again.  alright, so saying the whole entire trip was mikey’s favorite would be an accurate assessment.)

what can i say, the boys are all about hands-on learning.

probably safe to say the girls rather enjoyed it, too.

allie-girl was even brave enough to touch this sea star.  but with only one finger instead of the prescribed two.