3 Kids And A Caravan
To celebrate the fact that our caravan is almost ready to be picked up, I started our new family “travel” blog yesterday.
I’d always planned to set up a blog that the kids could write on during our big trip. The classrooms at school all have internet access and interactive whiteboards and I thought a blog would be a perfect way for them to keep in touch with their peers while we’re away.
As we’ll be away for an entire school term, the kids schooling is a factor we’ve considered as part of our trip. Our first choice will be to keep them enrolled in their current school and work closely with their teachers to cover the essential curriculum and make use of the natural teaching opportunities the trip provides. I have plenty of ideas on things we can do as part of the trip and the blog is one of them.
We have the support of the school Principal and Deputy Principal in theory but will need to get the final okay from the Education Department next year. I can’t see them saying no. Most educational professionals support family travel as a valuable educational experience. In my mind it makes the most sense to be able to work with their teachers to cover the basics in literacy and numeracy that they’ll miss while we’re gone. If for some reason we’re knocked back, we’ll be going anyway. 
So, back to the blog. My thinking with the blog is that it combines communication with literacy and information technology skills. We’ll also be doing some digital photography, including editing photographs and uploading them to the blog. I also have some thoughts on some basic small business and financial skills if we can find a sponsor for the blog.
The blog, 3 Kids And A Caravan, will also become our record of our big trip. I still intend to blog the trip here on this blog but this blog is MINE whereas the family blog will be for everyone to post their thoughts and experiences on.
While it’s main intention is the big trip, I thought it would be fun to start from right now, tracking the kids reactions to getting the caravan and our first trip away in it.
Singstar Princess wrote her first blog post last night. It was so cute and she was very excited. She chose the pen name “Shell-Bell” for the blog.
I’ve also got a great picture that Trailer Boy has drawn of the car and caravan which I’m hoping to load a copy of onto the blog. He’ll be known as TJ on the blog.
I’m hoping you’ll have time to go and take a peak and perhaps subscribe via a feedreader or via email (both options are up). There’ll be a few posts go up over the next month or so but things may then be a little sporadic until we go away in the caravan again.
