Curious George Exhibit at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Both my kids are fan of Curious George (and me too!). His curiousness resembles so close to that of little kids! Recently I heard a quote on KLOK 1170, "A mistake is just another way of doing something...". It goes so well with Curious George and kids. We always want our kids to do things in a certain way forgetting that they have a brain which is not polluted by the constraints. They can have ideas and thoughts that we might rule out as incorrect or mistake. So much for the philosophy...

I had read about the limited time Margaret and H.A.Rey's drawing exhibits in the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. In order to get most out of our visit we chose sunday when they had preschool gallery and drop-in-art-making. To cover the museum appropriately, we did a divide and conquer strategy, I took the little one for preschool and story telling activities, meanwhile N took the older one around the museum to see the Jewish exhibits.



My little one first enjoyed the story telling time listening to 4-5 stories.


Then we visited the curious George exhibit, as no pictures were allowed I don't have any to post here. However we did take pictures with the mascot. Below is "I" at the entrance to the exhibit:

The exhibit was very informative, I read aloud the words on each of the displays to my little one as we passed by each of the them and tried to name the Curious George book in which it appeared.

Finally in the drop-in-art-making the kids spent 30-45 minutes making light puppets. I would surely want to visit the museum again to see the other exhibits that I did not cover.

A Night at Children's Natural History Museum

An evening event with "fossil" theme was organized by the Math Science Nucleus at the Children's Natural History Museum in Fremont today. Being a weekday with kids homework and tests, I was not sure if we should attend it. It had been my wish for a while to take my kids to this museum. So 30 minutes prior to the event start which was @ 7:00 p.m. I and A finally decided to go.

We reached there when the "The boy paleontologists" Phil Gordon and William Charles were narrating about their childhood associations with fossils and paleontology. Most of the exhibits including the astounding collection of Ice age fossils found in the Irvington district (aka Irvingtonian fossil), in the museum now, were possible due to the work of Wesley Gordan, Sr. They showed a fossil of mammoth foot part, it took Wes Gordon almost 412 hours to remove the rock deposit from that fossil!


The kids then got to do few activities like sorting out the current day animals from those during the dinosaur period and sorting similar fossils.

















We then set off to explore the museum and were very overwhelmed with the rock collections, the fossil collections, hall of star and nature collection. They also have activities in the museum for kids, like sorting minerals, sorting gems, find matching object. It would probably take 2-3 hours to cover all the exhibits and do the activities. We did not get to complete the fossil collection as it was time to leave. However we soon do expect to go back to this museum. It is a must visit especially for the awesome mineral and rock collection!







Their other nature collection: