Kit said it was 30 minutes of performance then hands on time for the kids to explore various instruments with some university students. They also received passes to attend one of the performances in the concert hall on campus. They LOVED it, both have already asked when they can go back to the instrument petting zoo. 🙂
Brochure here for Super Arts 2010, three classes (October and two more in the spring) lasting 2 hours for grades 2 through 5 allowing kids to explore instruments (this week), dance and art materials with students from the local universities. We just signed up our older two, let me know if you sign up!
Oh, and the classes are free. 🙂
September – 1. Scientific Method, Experiments & Senses
– sensory experiments
– disability awareness experiments: ear plugs, blind fold
– will it float?
– water, ice, dye
Vocab: solid, liquid, gas, senses
C Cub Scout Award Science requirements here.
October – MATERNITY LEAVE
November – 2. Animals
– sorting animal cards
– visit animals*: zoo, Spirit Horse, farm (nutrition scout award)
– care for pet for 2 weeks, read book and list 3 facts about & make poster to share
Vocab: habitat
C Cub Scout Award pet care requirements.
December – 3. Life Long Ago/Dinosaurs
– animal tracks, make prints in clay & plaster (for scout requirement re: wildlife conservation & geology, footprints and fossil print)
Vocab: earth, dinosaurs
January – 4. Land
– rock, sand & other mineral examination
– samples of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic & 3 types of minerals
Vocab: rock, mineral, soil
C Cub Scout Award Geology requirements here.
February – 5. Body
– food groups
– safety poster: KidPower & Frisco fire station visit*
Vocab: body, heart, energy, exercise
C Cub Scout Award for Nutrition requirements here.
Games: All Systems Go and Heart Health.
March – 6. Earth & Outer Space
– shadow tracing
– constellation cups w/flashlight: planetarium trip*
– model solar system
Vocab: shadow, star, solar system, orbit
(Additional C vocab for scout pin: planet, star, solar system, galaxy, the Milky Way, black hole, red giant, white dwarf, comet, meteor, moon, asteroid, star map, and universe)
C Cub Scout Award Astronomy requirements here.
April – 7. Forces
– forces on different objects: use simple machines (for scout award: lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw)
– magnets
Vocab: machine, magnet, attract, repel, force
May – 8. Plants
– plant seeds: diagram plants
– ways animals use plants poster
Vocab: stem, roots, flower, fruit, seed, pollen
June – 9. Water & Weather
– water plus: salt, sugar, sand, oil
– helicopter spinners
– make poster water cycle
– set up weather station for one week
Vocab: water, air, gas, weather, wind (Additional vocab for C’s scout pin: humidity, precipitation, temperature, tornado, hurricane.)
C Cub Scout Award weather award requirements.
July – 10. Caring for our Planet
– caring for our space: make poster of ways to care for our space and do service project*
– create poster of food chain
– create poster/report on endangered species
C Cub Scout Wildlife Conservation requirements.
* Field trip ideas.
All from C’s camera but with some help shooting from Mom & Dad. We bought a family pass to the zoo last November because it wasn’t much more than the cost of us attending ONCE. We were waiting for spring to go again, though we lost our spring to my bedrest. It’s so hot now that we waited for a day with rain in the forecast and headed up when Kit got home. It’s about a 30 minute drive and was nice and overcast with a breeze so it wasn’t too hot. We all had hats, bottles of ice water and lots of sunblock. It takes about an hour to walk this entire zoo (with rest stops for Mom) and we literally had the place to ourselves. It was a nice afternoon!
The zookeepers:
The wild animals:
Other animals, not as cute but the baby zebra and baby kangaroo in the pouch were fun:
DFW on a budget link from friend to explore later!
More summer specific activities in our area.
Today we dropped Moira off to play with her cousin and my sister got the rest of us in as guests into the science museum. The kids had a blast, I think the dinosaur dig and the water park area were the two biggest hits.
Archway made from used plastic bottles, good reminder to use stainless steel water bottles!
C under the Da Vinci flying man:
Kit took Christopher & Moira to the Apple store for a field trip and a laptop repair mission (which, much to my delight, was covered by my extended warranty and my laptop looks lovely and new just in time to pass it to C when Kit buys his new laptop and I inherit his.) The kids learned how to create songs in Garage Band and we’ll post what they made. They also got cute t-shirts (even Kit got one.)
Our local homeschool board has been posting a ton of new field trip ideas (astronaut center, California Pizza Kitchen, etc) and I’m happy we could take advantage of one despite me being on bedrest. We knew we needed a trip for this repair so fun for the kids while Kit took care of business.
(Side note, Kit’s ordered his new “company” iPad.)
Pictures from the coordinator:
Kit said Mo wasn’t enjoying taking turns so he took her to her own computer after this. 🙂
I subscribe to several local homeschool groups and get a daily digest of the emails sent. Today this site came through and reminded me of why I join these groups – I learn about local resources I wouldn’t have discovered on my own!
Astronaut Training Center in DFW.
This is an annual event I guess??
