This morning we attended the Symphony’s KinderKonzert performance, “Cloudy with a Chance of Music,” at Kauffman Center. It was a wonderful performance! The songs selected were an exciting and emotive introduction to classical music, so the kids were engaged throughout…
We had a great time celebrating Valentine’s Day today! The kids were kept busy decorating their bags or boxes they brought, creating cards and drawings at the craft table, playing Bingo, Valentine’s Pictionary, and bean bag toss, plus the traditional…
On Tuesday we attended a performance of “Starring Abe Lincoln” at Theatre for Young America. This performance was a warm, funny and interesting history of Abe Lincoln’s life, and was both entertaining and informative. We learned about how Lincoln enjoyed…
Last Thursday, we went to Ernie Miller for the Inspector Insector class. Naturalist Molly came into the room dressed as a detective, and immediately grabbed the kids attention. She introduced the kids to their “case” and gave us a list of…
For this month’s meeting, we celebrated the Heart of Lego! For the mini build, we used Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day, Chinese New Year, Presidents’ Day, and National Inventors Day for inspiration. We then had a 2D/3D challenge build where the…
The kids had an awesome workshop at Nelson-Atkins yesterday! They turned an LED light, a coin-shaped battery, tape, cardboard and decorative paper into wearable circuitry fashion. Then, they turned that fashion into amazing light art! They started with a collection…
