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We are planning to start homeschooling on the road soon! I am so beyond excited to start RVing Full-Time with our kids next year. I just love traveling and there are so many great reasons to travel and explore the world around us.
And it’s easy to become bitten by the travel-bug. We live in a world where we can literally just pack up and travel at any point in time that we want. Our lives allow us to live without restraints and so many more people are starting to recognize this and make it their reality.
My husband and I used to spend hours on YouTube watching videos of families RVing full-time and dreaming with the possibility of one day doing the same. We both love traveling and have lived in many countries but since the kids were born, we had to slow down and do the “proper” thing: work, work, work to pay bills.
We knew we wanted to change that! So we did.
In January this year, we decided to turn our someday into today and bought our very first RV. In only a week, we gave notice on our rental townhouse and about a month later we moved full-time into it! Sounds crazy, but working as a blogger allows me to be location independent and why not live our daydream now?
Think about you and your families current situation. If you have a job that allows you to work from anywhere, and you are wanting to show your children the wonders of the world, why not think about traveling full-time as a family?
The options of where you could go, and what you could see are endless! Have you always had a want to see the Grand Canyon? Plan it and hit the road. What about taking a trip to Colorado to see the snow-capped mountains? All doable, 100%. Keep in mind that when traveling full-time as a family, your children and their education are a priority as well.
Homeschooling on the road is a great way to make certain that your children continue their education while getting to explore the wonders of the world at the same time. How awesome does that sound?! The great news? With everything available today as resources to be able to use, homeschooling on the road is absolutely possible!
Tips for Homeschooling on the Road when Traveling Full-Time as a Family
• Find a program that you want to use when homeschooling on the road before you begin traveling full-time.
There are a TON of resources out there for effective and efficient home-schooling programs. And the best part? So many of them are absolutely free! Remember, when teaching your children, no two learn the same way.
Take the time to truly understand how your children learn, and then find programs and resources out there that accent their learning ability. If they like to be more hands-on in their learning, find a few great workbooks and kits that you can introduce to them so that they can learn by seeing and feeling. Again, the resources available for homeschooling parents are in abundance.
If you are completely new to homeschooling read this post on where to start!
• Utilize technology to continue their homeschooling education.
Who knew how many thousands of resources there really were online for homeschool students? With one simple search, you’ll have more than enough programs and templates to look into to then decide what program is best for you and your children.
The best part? Homeschooling allows you to change course if you need to. If you have your child begin with one program and it doesn’t seem to be a good fit, changing is something that you have control of and can do.
The beauty of homeschooling is that you are helping your child explore and discover themselves by accenting their strengths and their own personal likes and dislikes.
• Set a schedule that works for you and your family.
A typical homeschool day doesn’t truly look anything like a regular public or private school day. There are no “set” school hours per se or changing from one classroom to the other. Your homeschool classroom can be wherever you want it to be.
Remember, your on the road full-time so finding fun places that have school along the way is part of the fun! Feel like spending the day learning at the local library? Sounds like the perfect classroom setting. What about creating an environment where you get to explore the great outdoors learning all about nature? A homeschool lesson made in science heaven!
Wherever, and whenever you want to learn, is entirely up to you. Your school day can start at 6 am, 8 am, 10 am or noon. There are no school bells ringing to say you children are late or to shuffle them down the hallway from room to room. As the homeschool educator, you decide the schedule and then stick to that schedule with your children.
• Get excited about homeschooling on the road!
Think about how many kids sit behind a desk and just learn and read information from a textbook day in and day out, without ever truly getting to experience any of it? You and your family can experience it all!
If you are starting on a homeschooling topic on animals and their habitats, round-up your crew and find the nearest zoo or state park to go explore. See how many animals you can see and discover and spend the day learning while actually being right in the middle of the lesson as well. Talk about a great way to bring those lessons to life!
Homeschooling on the road is a once in a lifetime experience. If you have the chance and the ability to let your children learn about the world, while actually being able to explore it at the same time, seriously consider giving it a try. The knowledge just waiting to be explored is out there, so grab it by the horns and add anything and everything that you want to your homeschooling experience!
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Here are some ebooks, guides, and gears for homeschooling on the road when RVing full-time as a family:
A Beginner’s Guide to Living in an RV: Everything I Wish I Knew Before Full-Time RVing Across America
Women’s Campers Have S’More Fun Tshirt – Camping RVing Tenting XL Baby BlueRV Living: An Essential Guide to Full-time Rving and Motorhome LivingCamp Casual CC-004W Mug (Wanderlust White),1 Per PackWomens Queen Of The Camper T-shirt – Funny Camping RV Shirt Large Dark HeatherComplete Guide to Full-Time RVing: Life on the Open RoadKids The 330 Rule for RVers – RVing T-Shirt – RV Lifestyle Shirt 8 Baby BlueRVing with Kids 12 Months a Year The How-to Book of Family RVingLiving Aboard Your RV, 4th EditionRV Journal: RVing & Camping Journal (Summer Journal With Prompts) 1RV: RV Living With Kids: Guide For Beginners On How To Prepare Your Van For Debt Free Living And Make It Entertaining For Your Children: (rv travel books, … true, rv camping secrets, rv camping tips,)How to Hit the Road: Making Your Family’s Full-Time RV Dreams a RealityTraveling With Kid And Pets, Tips For RV HolidayingKids RVing across the nation. Enjoying God’s creation shirt 6 BlackKids Funny Fulltime RVing Shirt: Where I Live? It’s Complicated 12 OliveRoadschooling: The Ultimate Guide to Education Through TravelRV Travel on a Budget: A Mother and Son’s Guide to Roadschooling the USAMy Roadschooling Field Book: A journal of learning & discovery (Map)Homeschool Legally While You Travel in the USA: A compilation of responses from all 50 states.Schooling Through Travel: How the World Became Our Children’s Classroom (Family Gap Years)My Roadschooling Field Book: A journal of learning & discovery (Map) by Larah Ritchie (2015-08-27)I Teach Math in a Minivan: Homeschool Roadschool Life TeeBigTrip: Our Year of Living and Learning on the RoadRV
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I so wish we could homeschool on the road. But my husband has a job where he can’t do it. My ex would probably pitch a fit and I would have to be back here for scouts and for my oldest two to go to their father’s house. One day maybe my younger can homeschool on the road!!
Homeschooling while RVing? Are you kidding me–that’s SO COOL. I’m so tempted right now to try it, but I seriously do not know how will my husband react. Anyways, thanks for the tips!
Yes!! We are loving life in our RV and can’t wait to explore as many awesome places as we can with the kids for the next one or two years. 😀
That’s wonderful! My homeschooled kids have left the nest, but we followed my husband’s work through 9 countries. It was fantastic! I totally agree with incorporating technology. It was hard hauling around all of the books, but each child did take a few classes online. AlphaOmega was just starting their digital curriculum then. I loved teaching them so much that I became a teacher when we returned to the US. My husband and I plan to full-time RV in the near future. I can’t wait!
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Hi, Melanie!!How exciting!!! We lived in 4 countries and we’re now eager to explorer North America for a year or two rving fulltime with our 3 kids. There are so many wonderful things to see and so much to learn. 😀
I am a single father of two wonderful children and I want to start traveling in an RV full time with them and discover America.
There are so much to see and experience in this Beautiful Country and so little time…I’m 44 and my children are very young Kindergarten aged and I just want to travel with them before my time is up and I get too old to be able to do anything with them.
If you don’t mind me asking, What homeschooling program did you use to homeschool your children while traveling on the road?
I’m so excited and so happy that I found you online.
Thank you so much.
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Allen, that is fantastic! There are so many options for curriculum out there! We used Sonlight Curriculum and ABCMouse with all 3 kids for kindergarten. But honestly, at this age and stage, you don’t even need a curriculum. It’s all about learning and discovering things through play. And they will learn so much traveling!
A good quality rv, camper or a motor home is nice for this. You can good parts for hitch towing to carry them around on your destination for teaching.
Absolutely!! We can’t wait to explore the USA and Canada in these next two years with our kids.
I gonna try Homeschooling while RVing!! There’s actually a lot of upsides, so yes, I’ll try. Thanks for all the tips!