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Please plan to join us for Share Day, even if your class is not offering activities, and bring your friends and family to share in the fun.

Share Day Schedule Spring 2012

 Picnic and Play: Bring your lunch and let’s picnic and play in the field behind the Lutz! Bad weather would move us into the museum to lunch in the Multi-Purpose Room instead.

Display Set-up: During this time we will be setting up class displays in the Multi-Purpose Room.  We will also have tables available for display of any individual projects or special interests that children would like to share with the group. Feel free to bring things in and set them up during this time. We will have index cards and markers available for labeling.

Through Your Eyes Photography Display: Join us as we share with you some of the pictures our budding photographers have taken this session. Photos will be up on the big screen.

Show and Tell: During this time we will invite children and teachers to tell us about what they have on display. Classes may have items on display, and space will be available for children to bring projects/interests from home to share as well (see Display Set-up above). Everyone is welcome to bring in something to display, even if they choose not to get up and talk about it.

 World Coin Detectives Activity: Join us for a “design your own coin” activity.  Take a look at coins and bank notes from around the world, learn from our experts about what features can be found on these treasures from far off places, then make your own original coin design to take home!  While you’re designing, check our world map to see all the countries we have visited through our research. Then start checking your change–you never know what adventures are hidden there!  We will also have our coin research materials available and our detectives are ready and willing to help you if you have a coin you would like to know more about.  See you there!

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Be safe and stay warm!

Please plan to join us for Share Day, even if your class is not offering activities, and bring your friends and families to share the fun.  Remember that in addition to class displays, all children are invited to bring in a project from home to display and we will have time for them to explain what their project is about if they so choose.

All activities will take place at the Lutz Children’s Museum.  There will be no official monitors on duty this day, so please be responsible for your own children.  Especially remember that all children need to have an adult with them when outside the building for any reason.  Since all of our activities are taking place in the Multi-Purpose Room, and many people will be bringing in display items, it is okay to use the back door to come and go, with one exception:  Please do not use the back door from after 12:30 pm. Acrobatics will be doing a make-up class in the Multi-Purpose room at this time.  The rest of the museum will be open until 1:30pm, and you are welcome to take advantage of that space for conversations and children needing to play.

Share Day Schedule Winter 2011

Display Set-up: During this time we will be setting up class displays in the Multi-Purpose Room.  We will also have tables available for display of any individual projects children have completed at home that they would like to share with the group.

Sol Lewitt Modular Structure Activity: This is an opportunity for people to try making paper blocks. These look really cool all stacked up into a single sculpture. Come check it out and get in on the fun.

Keva Challenge: Hex Bug Habitats: Drop by and see what all the “buzz” is about.  This session one of our favorite Keva challenges was building Hexbug habitats.  Join our MHC builders and try your hand at this fun and surprising Keva activity. Bring your own Hexbug if you’d like, but if you do, please make sure it has your name on it (masking tape works well).  We’ll have our class pests (er…pets) to share around too.

Show and Tell, Displays: Everyone is welcome bring something to share during this time.  Classes may have items on display, and space will be available for children to bring projects from home to display as well (see Display Set-up above).  We will also invite children to tell us about what they have on display, if they choose to.

Acrobatics: Acrobatics will be holding their final class during this time.

If you have questions, or would like to know how to get items to them if you are not currently attending classes at the museum, please post these as a comment below so that Jim or Jody can answer them directly.

We will keep you all updated on the changing needs of our friends as time goes on and the process of replacing or rebuilding their home begins.

Addendum: Sammy’s birthday is 3/13 (he’s turning 5) and Jody is taking up a collection to help buy BD presents and throw him a party.  In addition to the basket for donations, we’ll also have an envelope on Monday for anyone who wants to contribute cash, either for the party or just for the family in general. They would also be very happy if someone had an old Nintendo DS they were no longer using.  Both Sarah and Luke lost theirs to the fire, and the family is hoping to get Sammy one for his birthday.

All the best,

Laurel

Enjoy your vacation everyone! We’ll try to bring you back some nice Florida sunshine!

I missed seeing you all next week, and I’ll miss you again this week.  But on my way out of town, here is your weekly update:

1.     Parking/Shuttle to Country Club: This past Monday someone wound up walking back and forth to the country club because there was no parking at the Lutz and they were unable to find a ride back and forth when they needed one. We have, therefore, discovered that the walk over to the country club is not a very safe one.  In order to make sure no one has to do this again, Michelle has offered to shuttle people back and forth as needed.  If you find that there is no parking, just pull up in front of the building, bring your children on in and ask Michelle to follow you over to the country club and give you a lift back.  When you need to leave, she can give you a lift back over to pick up your car.  In order to ensure that she doesn’t lose her own parking spot while serving as the MHC shuttle, we will be placing our big orange cones in her parking space to reserve it for her while she’s not there.  Please do not move these cones!

This will only work if all parents in the museum are willing to step in and either help each other’s children get to class, or keep an eye on a few extra children for the time it takes to run over to the country club and back.  I have every confidence that you can all handle this and that winter will be over soon! J

2.     Children Flying Solo: I know that it is frequently the case that the children are finished eating before the grown-ups, but please be sure that they do not re-enter the museum without an adult after lunch.  This past Monday, there were quite a few children on their own in Main Street for a period of time toward the end of lunch.  There should be at least one grown-up in each room if children are present, and two is much better than one.  Nothing was broken and no one was hurt, but if those things happen we run the risk of losing our privileges at the museum.

3.     Supporting Older Children: Along those lines, please continue to support older children as they spend time in the museum.  The museum is definitely a place for parents to connect, but it is important to always be aware of the energy of the children and whether they need support.  Continuing to encourage children to bring activities from home to share is a great way to help them channel some of this energy.  We have chess boards (which I heard got some nice use), but kids should also feel free to bring in cards, board games, crafts to share, etc…whatever they would like to do with their friends.  We can find them a space to do it in!

4. Vacation Week – Monday, 2/21: Please remember that Monday, 2/21 is a vacation week for MHC.  The Lutz is open to the public that day.

5. Facebook: Don’t forget you can find us on Facebook.  Anyone who has attended classes in the past year or so can join the Monday Homeschool Classes facebook group.  Hope to see you there.

Have a great Monday and I look forward to seeing you all in person in a couple of weeks!

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