Trish Corlew

Packing List for Niagara Falls

Are you ready to head to Niagara Falls?! It can be hard to pack to go somewhere you’ve never been before, so I’m sharing this list and a few tips to keep in mind as you pack and prepare to leave. Of course you’ll need whatever you would normally take when you go on a trip with your family, but there are some additional things you may not have...

Why Travel Is Vital for Your Homeschooling Family

I come across a lot of travel influencers who make living on the road permanently seem like a fun, perfect, and even easy-to-obtain lifestyle. Among these are families traveling year-round, mom, dad, and kids all living like nomads, embracing the cultures of the world wholeheartedly while seeing the exotic sites of Europe, Eastern Asia, or South America. In all the...

Homeschool Road Trip Registration – New Mexico

Once you have registered and paid your registration fee, you will be added to a private Facebook group that is only for those adults who will travel to New Mexico with us. (We do this for each of our HEART trips.) This allows those who will be attending to start getting to know each other. It also give us a place to share important information with those who will...

#SummerWOW with Your Family

I remember summer days when we were little girls. (Because I’m a twin, I always think of my childhood in terms of “we.”) We grew up in the South, so summers meant working in the garden. But they also meant eating watermelon (that we grew ourselves) and homemade (hand-churned!) ice cream. The grown-ups drank iced tea and cooled off in the shade after a long hot day of...

Teen Travel Writing Scholarship

We are so excited to announce the 12th annual Teen Travel Writing Scholarship! It is a perfect marriage with the new division of Hip Homeschool Moms called Homeschool Road Trips! We are thrilled to be one of the sponsors for this writing scholarship and want to encourage your teens to enter! If you have a teen who loves to travel and enjoys writing about it, you need...

Homeschool Enrichment Adventure Road Trip to Niagara Falls

We have absolutely loved bringing our community together on a whole new level for the last two years. We call these trips our Homeschool Enrichment Adventure Road Trips ♥ (HEART) ♥ and today, we are announcing our next Homeschool Enrichment Adventure Road Trip to Niagara Falls! Why Travel with Us? Relax.  We take care of all the details! All you have to do is arrive...

Educational Travel and an Exciting Partnership!

If you’re looking for ways to include educational travel in your homeschool and for ways to give your children the opportunity to practice their writing skills, keep reading! Hip Homeschool Moms & Homeschool Road Trips Hip Homeschool Moms is entering our third year of providing educational travel opportunities for homeschooling families. And we not only...

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Space Camp – Homeschool Enrichment Adventure Road Trip

We are so excited to bring our community together on a whole new level with our second annual Homeschool Enrichment Adventure Road Trip ♥ (H.E.A.R.T.) ♥ with Hip Homeschool Moms!  Our first trip was to Fort Caswell, NC, where we studied science, history, pirates, and more! And now it is time to announce our Second Annual HEART Road Trip to Space Camp!!!  Space Camp...

5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Homeschool Field Trips

Few things will break up homeschooling monotony like fun field trips!  And nothing drives home the learning like a visit to a museum, nature preserve, petting zoo, historic site, live performance, or attraction that relates to a subject you’ve been studying.  Often a single field trip will yield the same depth of learning as weeks’ worth of book study.   Here...