Christian Home-Educators of the Bluegrass
"Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge." -Proverbs 23:12

Thank you for volunteering to be on the Field Trip Committee. We are looking forward to another fun and exciting year of Field Trips. Here are some guidelines to help you get started.

1. Pray about your idea(s). We are a member driven organization and we try not to dictate to our committee. We love for our committee members to call us and share their creative ideas with us. Occasionally someone on the board may request a Field Trip and these Field Trips will be assigned to a committee member to set up. If you are having trouble coming up with an idea, look at what you are studying in History and Science sometimes you can spring board off a topic in one of these areas.
   
   
2. Once you have your idea, call the Field Trip Committee Chair, also known as the Master Calendar Keeper. This year the Field Trip Committee Co-Chairs are Kim Brown, 219-9805 and Angie Drysdale. The Field Trip Committee Chair will then assign you a date or two in which you may schedule your Field Trip. Please DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. The Field Trip Committee Chair knows all of the dates for events, such as Bees, Testing, etc, and we try to work together to avoid too much being scheduled during one week.
   
   
3. Things to ask when scheduling the Field Trip:
• Name of the event or place we are going
• Date
• Beginning and Ending Times - Check-in time is set at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning time
• Cost- many businesses will give us one free adult ticket per 10 children. At the beginning of CHB, it was agreed that no one individual would ever receive a free ticket. We are a member driven organization and everyone is required to work; therefore, we never have free tickets for workers. We take the free tickets and roll them into the cost of all of the adult tickets and then lower the price of the adult ticket, sometimes this is only $.25; however, we feel this is fairer to everyone. If we make money on a Field Trip, which we sometimes do on Theatre, that money stays in the Field Trip budget to offset another Field Trip or to be used for a group, end of the year party. Field Trips must pay for themselves, which means that at the end of the year our goal is to break even.
• Ages - are strollers/backpacks allowed? Our host always dictates this.
• Description, as much detail as possible, as to what we will be doing
  
  
4. Once you have all of this information you are ready to either have your Field Trip posted on the website or post it yourself using this on-line form. Call the Field Trip Committee Co-Chair that you have been working with, they will instruct you further.
   
   
5. It is the responsibility of the individual Field Trip coordinators to collect all monies and reservations for your Field Trip. Once it is all collected you are responsible for turning the money over to the Treasurer. If someone has e-mailed you reservations and you have not received their money please call them and tell them you have not received their money and confirm that they will be attending. They may need to give you a check at the door, if the postal service has failed us. We do not ever want to pay for someone who has changed their minds or plans.
   
   
6. Our goal is to have enough individuals on our committee every year to require our committee members to only set-up one or two field trips per year.