Another no school day saw a group of kids virtually travelling all over the world as they came out to the Souris Valley Museum on Friday to participate in the Amazing Adventure program.
To start off the day participants were offered to paint and colour their dream destinations. The places they wanted to be at varied from their own bed to Alice’s Wonderland, from Las Vegas to Hawaii, from Paris to Mexico, from Rapunzel’s tower to New York, and from Disneyland to Regina.
It was the museum's second no school day program this year. They also learned all about travel, and how people travelled in the past and might be travelling in the future.
Through crafts and games, they also learned about different continents of the world and different cultures. On top of general knowledge kids had a chance to learn how to use a map and a compass. To reinforce the new skill they had to map the museum.
Mark Veneziano, Souris Valley Museum’s executive director, said that the program was almost full with most of the kids staying for the entire day.
“It’s always fun to have these no school days programs here,” said Veneziano. “The no school day workshops are structured in a way that parents have a choice to send their children to the museum for the mornings, or the afternoon, or for the full days (depending on what parents are interested in). It’s $10 for a half a day, $20 for a full day for all the no school day programs throughout the whole year.”
The museum provides the lunchtime supervision for those parents who bring their kids for the full day.
There will be two more no school day programs offered in November. The next one will take place on Nov. 22 and will teach all about paper. And on Nov. 25 the museum will teach children about emojis and symbols.
“With that one, we’ll be learning about modern-day emojis, and I’m sure children could teach us more than we could teach them. But on the symbol side of things, we’ll be learning about how people communicated before writing, through cave painting, pictures. That we could teach the kids about,” said Veneziano.
The program will return in 2020. On Jan. 31 they will have a day called Can you Build It, where kids will be learning about Canadian ventures and inventions.
To get more information or to register people can go to sourisvalleymuseum.com.
