I am cooked! We didn’t end up making it to Home Depot yesterday… Lala had a dance performance and we didn’t get up and moving early enough to make it to Home Depot beforehand… Maybe next month… Instead, we headed out for Lala’s performance. Lala had never performed publicly before, so we weren’t sure how it would go… She did fantastic! Got right up there and did the dance with her class. We were so proud. I’m not sure I can explain why I got teary-eyed watching my four year old mimic her teacher’s movements in a scratchy Princess Elsa dress… But anyways…
I hadn’t looked into the event the kids were performing at… It was a family fair to support early childhood education with all sorts of ‘kid-related’ vendors. We found information on music classes, child care resources, tutoring, children’s dentistry, a literature-based charter school, and… so much more! It was fascinating! At one booth, they had sidewalk chalk… Lala drew a boat – a white boat for a ‘Frozen’ princess…
I was so fascinated, I didn’t think about the fact that it was over 80 degrees and we were outside for a couple of hours around noon… We had the kids in the shade or the stroller most of the time, but I didn’t bring a hat or anything… Thus, the ‘baste me and turn me over’ condition of my neck and shoulders… Ugh! I always seem to burn my shoulders once at the beginning of every summer… The kids are fine, mom… not so much…
We were getting ready to head home to prep for dinner with Abuela, but that got rescheduled at the last minute… so… we made a quick change and dashed over to our local university. We had seen a flyer about all the museums on campus being open for visitors all day. We had wanted to go, but hadn’t been able to make it fit in… With the schedule change, we dashed over… The museums were open later than we first thought, so we managed to visit 3 different locations.
On our way across campus, we walked around the pond and checked on the resident swan couple, currently brooding…
Our first stop was the College of Engineering’s K-12 Teaching Lab. They had so many fascinating things to look at and ‘play with!’
Simple machines made with K’Nex…
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The kids loved it! Tbear kept turning the intensity all the way up and then startling when the machine started trying to rattle itself off the table.
They had so many cool things on display, including a robot, suspension bridge model, and snap circuits! They do field trips to schools and summer camps for older kids. I got the contact information for the coordinator of the program. I am excited to see if we can set up a tour or lessons for our homeschool group. I also really need to get some snap circuits! And… they had these retractible power outlet set-ups in the ceiling… I totally need one in my kitchen!
We then stopped by the university’s press and got to see a hand-operated printing press in action. How do you explain printing to a child with a wireless Wi-Fi printer at home? What a contrast! The presses are works of art themselves, as are the printed pages.
Our final stop was the Museum of Natural History. All I can say is… Wow! Both their public and research collections were open. We were able to see plants, bugs, and vertebrate specimens. There were several snakes, many lizards, including a giant red tegu, and a swallowtail caterpillar.
It was amazing! We got to take home a milkweed – to attract Monarch Butterflies – and a globe mallow – a drought resistant native plant that will put on beautiful salmon colored flowers. Yay! More plants for our garden.
We would have loved to have seen more of the museums, but we closed the place down… Many of the other sites are open to the public during regular hours. We will have to check them out sometime soon! And will hope that the university hosts this event again in the future! I am looking forward to setting up some homeschool group field trips too! We learned so much and had a wonderful time!
We had an amazing day, living and learning. We hope you did too!