Today we went to the Natural History Museum for a program called Tiny Trekkers. Each month there is a class with a different theme. Today's theme was "Winter." The teacher talked about hibernation, migration, and active animals in the winter. She also shared lots of pictures of various winter animals. Grace and Lynn joined us for the class and the girls sat quietly and listened to everything that was said. After about 20 minutes, the kids were allowed to explore all the activities set up in the room.
Dawson made a winter picture with the sun shining low (like it does in the winter) and some animals down at the bottom of the pond since that's where they go in the winter.
When the picture was done, we then stamped some winter animal prints in the snow.
Next, we made a felt snowman. All of the parts of this guy were removable.
We ate lunch then headed into the planetarium for a special Sesame Street movie about stars. Both girls loved it and kept pointing to the stars in the planetarium. The main idea of the movie was that the whole world shares the same sky. We see the same moon and stars as the people in China! (and the grandparents in NY...Nana and Ba!)
After the movie, we explored a little more of the museum and got ready to go home!
And to our surprise, when we left, there was a lot of snow! These two ran right into and just wanted to play!
What a way to leave our class about WINTER!!!
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It was a fun day. We are looking forward to the next one in January. The snow as pretty, but I didn't love the treacherous drive home!
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