Though it’s not quite the holiday season yet, I’ve spent much of this morning reading Christmas scenes from various children’s books. For Candlelight (the museum’s biggest event of the year), I decided to create a pre-visit lesson plan for teachers visiting in December. And what better way to talk about how holidays have changed in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Great Brain’
Christmas Classics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy-Tacy, Christmas, Great Brain, lesson plan, Little House, Little Women, Roller Skates on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Beyond the frontier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy, Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes me very, very happy. And generally speaking, I’m amazed to see how creative teachers are in connecting their textbooks [...]
Everybody poops. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Great Brain, Heaven to Betsy, John D. Fitzgerald, Maud Hart Lovelace on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For anyone who spends any time with children, there are certain questions and subjects that come up over and over again. Subjects like bathrooms and poop. At a museum like ours, this comes up fairly frequently. We have outhouses, including one two-seater (glamour!). We also have donkeys–you can always tell when they poop in front [...]
