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Great day at the Natural History Museum
Apr. 8th, 2010 09:59 pmThis morning, we decided to head down to the Natural History Museum -- our fourth major outing in the last week (we've also been to the zoo, the American History Museum, and the College Park Aviation Museum). I'm amazed at how much easier it is to take the kids to a museum by myself than it was even a couple of months ago. Karl still lacks patience, but it's a lot better than it was. Erika even managed to sketch in the Mammals exhibit while he played on the iPod for 15 minutes.
We tried to see the new exhibit on human prehistory, but the electricity was out in that part of the museum, so we've decided to go back tomorrow (!) to see it. We did get to watch a tarantula being fed in the insect zoo, and the kids got to hold a giant cricket and pet an Australian Stick Insect, which Erika thought was especially cool. Karl's particular wish was to see the Mammoths, so we visited the Ice Age exhibit, which I'm not sure I'd ever seen before. The giant ground sloths were quite impressive, and Erika loved the saber-toothed cats.
Later in the afternoon, Erika had me read to her from the encyclopedia on saber-toothed cats, foxes, arctic foxes, and wolves -- obviously, that encyclopedia is getting a lot of use here. She then went on to draw foxes based on the pictures in the encyclopedia. She's been focusing a lot on drawing realistic back legs on her animals lately, and I'm pretty impressed with how it's been going.
We even managed to get another reading lesson in; it was number 76 in the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. She read the sentences in the lesson more quickly and easily than usual, too. Yay!
We tried to see the new exhibit on human prehistory, but the electricity was out in that part of the museum, so we've decided to go back tomorrow (!) to see it. We did get to watch a tarantula being fed in the insect zoo, and the kids got to hold a giant cricket and pet an Australian Stick Insect, which Erika thought was especially cool. Karl's particular wish was to see the Mammoths, so we visited the Ice Age exhibit, which I'm not sure I'd ever seen before. The giant ground sloths were quite impressive, and Erika loved the saber-toothed cats.
Later in the afternoon, Erika had me read to her from the encyclopedia on saber-toothed cats, foxes, arctic foxes, and wolves -- obviously, that encyclopedia is getting a lot of use here. She then went on to draw foxes based on the pictures in the encyclopedia. She's been focusing a lot on drawing realistic back legs on her animals lately, and I'm pretty impressed with how it's been going.
We even managed to get another reading lesson in; it was number 76 in the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. She read the sentences in the lesson more quickly and easily than usual, too. Yay!
