My Last BADM Floor Report

Now, we have a secret heart in the museum!!

Where?

It’s somewhere in the Look Out Cove!

Last week, one of the museum stuff, Glen, who is taking care of our exhibition, made this shape for all our children and guests. So, not only the “Alphabet Hunting,” but also we have a potential to play “Shape Hunting” in the museum!!

Thank you Glen,

And, thank you for everybody.

I’ll be in Hong Kong two years and maybe come back !!

MABO

BADM Floor Report: The Best Story Ever

In Look Out Cove, there were 6 children.
They were looking for treasures in the Pirate Boat.

I was helping them to find treasures: rocks, Chinese pots, pennies, and so on.
While I was talking with them, I learned that today was a birthday for one of them.

I left the Pirate Boat to check other people and exhibit.

Then, one of the girl came to me, and she asked if I could help finding more pennies.

She explained that they decided to buy a secret gift for the birthday girl with those pennies they found in the treasure boat.

She told me that I must keep it secret.



I thought how wonderful and considerable those children were!!!



So, I said, "Here, take some of mine. I 'found' those too."
(You know, I did not find. Those were change from my pocket...)

Then, this girl said, "Oh, no. You keep it because you found it."

Oh, my...

I felt so deeply.

So, I happily helped them finding more treasures.

Kamishibai in Bay Area Discovery Museum

ミュージアムにて、紙芝居に関する２つのイベントを毎月行うことになりました！

 

1. 第三週の水曜日、11:30-12:00、紙芝居と日本の歌などをおりまぜ たストーリータイム。

2. 第三週の土曜日、3:30-4:30、紙芝居アート。

※ただし、９月はミュージアムの改修工事期間に当たるため、１０月から始まります！

 

ストーリータイムは、地元の日本人のお母さんグループ（Marin Kamishibai Club）がボランティアとして、紙芝居アートはChicoに在住のChieko Pageさんが、これまたボランティアで協力してくださる事になります。

 

この他、ミュージアム独自の紙芝居を作り、地元のプリスクールを訪問する際に使うというプロジェクトも進行中です♪

 

自分は今後ミュージアムを離れ、香港に引越しをします。 このミュージアムは、もともと数人のお母さんたちが子供たちの為にと始めたもの。  皆さんのミュージアムです。 今後とも、アイデアやリサイクル材料、紙芝居の購入資金の提供などなど、ぜひぜひ、お力をお貸し下さい！！

 

素敵なミュージアムが育っていくことを願います。

MABO

Book: The Hurried Child, Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

Written by David Elkind (1981)

pp. 3-4 “In his classic work Emile, Rousseau wrote, ‘Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.’”

 

p.9 “the pressure to grow up fast”

p.9 “The pressure to engage in organized, competitive sports at camp and at home is one of the most obvious pressures on contemporary children to grow up fast.”

 

 

 In this video, Piaget says, “Our real problem is -- what is the goal of education? Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?”

BADM: Rich on TV!!

Rich, the executive director of Bay Area Discovery Museum, took an interview!!!

http://blip.tv/file/3904860

To support children’s creativity, museum staffs are always thinking of those five words: Explore, Discover, Immerse, Connect, and Imagine.

And, you know, without joy it’s nothing!!

Alphabet Hunting @ BADM

Inspired by two books, Arlene Alda’s “ABC” & Stephen Johnson’s “Alphabet City”, and the alphabet project at Monterey Peninsula College Child Development Center.

On Aug 7, we had a great time to explore and discover alphabets letters!!

 

 

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(Backward “R”)

 

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(Backward “Z”)

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Alphabet Hunting@BADM

Inspired by two books, Arlene Alda’s “ABC” & Stephen Johnson’s “Alphabet City”, and the alphabet project at Monterey Peninsula College Child Development Center.

The pictures below are some of the clues to “HUNT” hidden alphabets on BADM. This program, "Alphabet Hunting," will be on Saturday Aug 7, 3:00-5:00. We will gather in front of the TOT SPOT and try to hunt alphabets as much as we can!!

 

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