Join us on the museum floor where we’ll make crafts and perform experiments that help us learn about our Wilma the Whale exhibit. We’ll have special stories with each activity that will help us visualize what we’re learning about.
For details on this week’s program check out our updated calendar of events.
A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Blue whales make terrible pets…. Just ask in “Billy Twitter and his Blue Whale Problem” at 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.
When a big blue whale comes to live near their reef, there is a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry in “Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale” by Marcus Pfister at 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.
Explore underwater worlds this Friday when we do Sea Life Drawings for Discovery Artists!
For Discovery STEM Scientists we’ll be doing the Skittles rainbow science activity at 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m., and in the Makerspace we’ll be learning about surface tension on pennies at 2:30 p.m.
Little Mae’s curiosity, intelligence, and determination, matched with her parents’ encouraging words, paved the way for her incredible success at NASA as the first African American woman to travel in space in “Mae Among The Stars” by Roda Ahmed.
When Mom has to go out of town, Stanley decides to blast off to outer space. But who’s this small martian returning in his place who doesn’t follow earthling rules in “The Boy Who Went to Mars” at 11 a.m. & 3:30 p.m.
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she’s not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can’t resist a nibble in “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” by Grace Lin.
