Travel journal

[theelfqueen]

We are leaving on a 3 week overseas trip this week. I've had this in our plans all along and adjusted things in such a way that the only schooling I'm requiring from the kids (6th and 10th grade) is 3 weeks of field trips and travel journals. I've been drawing up guidelines for their journals and have discussed with them... but if you have ideas, prompts, or recommendations, or experience... I'd love to hear them...

 

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[theelfqueen]

This is what I have so far:

Expectations for Travel Journal:

At least one page of WRITING per day – supplements include keeping ephemera (ticket stubs, receipts, etc) and drawings, these are great additions but don’t replace writing!

 

Writing must be legible (neat) and reasonably grammatical (this is a journal, not an essay, but it still needs to make sense!)

 

Writing could be in the form of a descriptive paragraph, a bullet pointed list, a schedule with times, a letter to yourself, a letter to someone else, poems, top 10 list, 10 worst list, etc.

 

Writings topics could include:

• the events of the day
• the locations we visited
• roses and thorns
• history or interesting facts about places we went
• descriptions of people, places, things
• things you wish you could bring home and things you miss from home
• things you bought
• things you saw
• things you found or lost
• meals (menu, unfamiliar foods, setting of restaurant, etc.)
• how the visit/location met up with your expectations
• animal and plants you saw
• weather
• things you wish we could have done
• interactions with locals
• major news items
• your thoughts and feelings
• notes on language differences
• recommendations you would make to someone else on this trip
• first impressions of a place
• things that have surprised you
• what you learned
• what you hope to never forget

 

 

[RenaInTexas]

We did this on our trip last summer, though my kids are only 7 and 9. 

 

The one thing that we changed during the trip was that we started to take our journals with us. At the beginning, we left them in our room and journal-ed at night. It was much better to take them with us because we could jot stuff down on the fly, could journal as we rode between destinations, and were often too bushed to do it at night anyway. Plus, with my young ones, their memory wasn't long enough to try to make it up the next day.

 

Also make little journal entries of photos that you take because once you get back to the room or when you organize them later, you'll be asking....'now what was that again' or 'why did I take a picture of that'. I noted the photo number on my camera roll in my journal.