Just a Housebear: Lunchables Promotes Field Trips

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Lunchables. All opinions are 100% mine.

I feel like I went on a lot of field trips when I was a kid. I vividly remember them all. I went to the firehouse, a dairy farm, the zoo, a science museum, Multnomah Falls, and an aquarium, just to name a few. I do have a top 2 on my list of best field trips. Those were the ones that lasted the longest - swimming lessons, and outdoor school.

I went to public school, so no fancy tuition to pay for our field trips. We didn't have the nicest newest things, but what we did have was opportunity. When I was in the 4th grade, we able to travel to Landover Athletic Club once a week for a month to take swimming lessons in the pool there. By "we", I mean every 4th grader in the school. Each 4th grade class had its own assigned day, and everyone got to go as long as their parents signed the waiver. I was sad to learn that the next year, the 4th grade classes missed out on going due to funding.

Another of my fondest field trip memories was outdoor school. Outdoor school was in the 5th grade. All of the 5th graders in our school went to Camp and stayed a full 5 days! Our camp counselors were high school kids who had been to outdoor school themselves a few years before. When we got to camp, we were assigned cabins. They mixed up our classes, so I got to meet girls from other classrooms and made new friends. We looked up to our counselors and thought they were so cool and so mature, even though they were really only highschoolers. But hey - they could DRIVE.

Thankfully, outdoor school stuck around for a while. I got to watch my brother and my sister, and then my youngest brother experience it. Sadly, it is a program that has been discontinued. Again, the problem was funding.

I learned that The American Association of School Administrators reports that this school year, the amount school districts that will be eliminating field trips will increase by 56 percent. That’s more over 30,000 schools. That's why I think that Lunchables is working toward such a noble cause.

Field Trips For All is an effort of Lunchable's newly launched initiative called Project Potential. Lunchables will be rewarding 50 classrooms with an inspiring and educational field trip. How are they going to choose these deserving classes? You, of course!

Anyone 6 years of age or older can go to http://www.lunchables.com/potential/ and nominate a deserving classroom. I nominated my nephew, Ryan's classroom to go on a fun field trip! Because anyone 6 or older can vote, that means that everyone in his classroom will be able to get online and vote for their own class!

I voted for Ryan's classroom because I know that he is going to school in a time where he will not go on as many field trips as I did. I want for him to be able to experience as many fun opportunities as I did when I was his age. He is at such an impressionable age, the future is wide open for him, and he is ready to discover the world.

I first became aware of this program when I saw this commercial from Lunchables. I would love if something like this happened to my Nephew!!!