For every Valley family

Free days.
Field trips.
Things to do this week.

Phoenix Homeschool Weekly is a free email every Friday morning: twelve to fifteen things to do with your kids across the Valley, each one checked against the venue's own page that day, each with a link you can tap.

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Free, every Friday12 to 15 picks, never 40Every link checked that morning14 Valley cities

Who makes it

It started as a list for my wife.

I'm Justin. Brittany and I homeschool in the Valley, and every week she was piecing together what was free, what had a homeschool rate, and what was actually worth loading up the van for. So I built her a Friday list. It got useful enough that we opened it up, and you do not have to homeschool to use it: most of it works on a Saturday too.

More about Justin

1
No link, no mention
Every item has a button that goes to the real registration or info page. If there is no page to send you to, it does not make the list.
2
Checked that morning
Price, date, time and address come from the venue's own page, read that Friday. If it cannot be verified, it is left out. No guesses, no "call first."
3
Fifteen things, not forty
Twelve to fifteen picks with the full detail on each. A shorter list you can actually plan from beats a long one you skim and close.
4
Honest about fit
If something skews young, needs a group of ten, or is bad value at the gate price, it says so before you drive across the Valley.

What lands in your inbox

Same order every week.

So you always know where to look, and the urgent stuff is never buried.

First
Deadlines. Do these first.
Registrations that close, homeschool weeks that end Friday, group bookings that need two weeks of notice. Sorted by how soon you lose the chance.
Dated
Happening this week and next
Ranger nights, bird walks, free museum evenings, library STEM. Each one with when, cost, the street address, ages and how to sign up.
Standing
Free any week you want it
Culture Pass, wetlands permits, nature centers. These rotate so you are not reading the same three forever.
Paid
Hands-on and worth paying for
Foundry tours, mine tours, working farms and the best homeschool rates in the state, with the family of four math done for you.
Last
If you only do three things
The short version for a full week. Three moves, in order, and you have not missed anything that mattered.
Always
ESA dates and the ten-person rule
Funding windows and receipt deadlines before they sneak up, plus which trips need a group of ten and where to find one.

Where it covers

The whole Valley, and a little past it.

East Valley to West Valley, plus anything up to ninety minutes out if it earns the drive. It also tracks the Arizona things that are easy to miss: ESA funding windows and receipt deadlines, and homeschool law news from the state's own pages.

Phoenix
Mesa
Chandler
Gilbert
Scottsdale
Tempe
Glendale
Peoria
Goodyear
Surprise
Avondale
Litchfield Park
Queen Creek
Apache Junction

The archive

Look back at past weeks.

Every issue is kept here once it is a week old. The standing deals and free-any-week spots stay useful long after the dated events pass. This week's list goes to subscribers first.

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