We had nothing on the horizon for today, so when my friend Jen texted and invited us to the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, we jumped at the chance for something fun and different to do! The girls were excited and ready to go--especially on this crisp fall day.
We had been one other time to the Discovery Center, and I was so impressed with all of the interactive learning activities that my girls could be a part of and even comprehend. I had just begun teaching preschool at the time, and I came away with lots of ideas that I was able to implement in our class.
On Monday mornings, there is a special activity for moms and kids. It's kind of a mix between story time at the library and circle time at the beginning of a school day. Today the theme was spiders, so we started the day by reading Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider,
singing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", getting spider rings, and making spider handprint crafts and spider snacks.
Then we went to explore. The kids jumped in a ball pit that represented red blood cells and white blood cells; they were car mechanics; they operated dump trucks and cranes and learned about levels;
they sat in farm trucks and pretended like they were in Disney parades;
they turned cogs; they sat in fire trucks,
went down twisty slides,
and were archaeologists. They learned about water supplies and farmers markets.
We even played Pocahontas. ;)
Then we went back to Jen's house and enjoyed a fun lunch with fun friends.
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