November

Month at the Museum

As the weather cools down, we look for things to do around the home. Inside a real museum, you can look, but you can't touch. Here, you can click 'til your heart's content.

Vocabulary for younger kids: Next to, above, below, on top of, old, new, museum, fossil, antique, jazz

Vocabulary for older kids: Adjacent, gallery, artifact, modern, ancient, antiquities, gallery, exhibit

Articulation: Explore your favorite type of museum below (art, music, science, antiquities, or natural history) and go on a scavenger hunt for words that start or end with your target sound. It's good practice to learn how to pronounce it.

Concepts: Above/Below, Left/Right, Before/After,

Categories: Art, Music, Science, Antiquities, Natural History,

Following directions: Can you give your child directions to a location on a museum floor using the map of Boston's museum?

Museums to Explore Online

Boston's Children Museum - 3 Floors Virtual Tour

Boston Children's Museum offers a virtual tour and online maps of the museum in 12 different languages. Maps are great resources for building directional skills.

Direct your kids to fun exhibits like Explore-a-Saurus and the Japanese House. Be sure to check out 100 Ways to Play. These are great concept and language building activities!

More resources for learning: https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/learning-resources

National Museum of Natural History

Take a self-guided, room-by-room tour of permanent, current, and past exhibits. Make sure to send kids to the second floor Bone Hall so they can take a look at all different kinds of skeletons.

Birthplace of Music: A Virtual Fieldtrip

Boise State put together this fully interactive virtual field trip with text, photos, audio, and video. The four featured music locations are: Vienna, Austria; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; and Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia.

Louvre Museum in Paris

Everyone wants to go to Paris! But you don’t need a passport to see at least some of the exhibits at the world’s most famous art museum, Louvre Museum. Check out Louvre Museum's current virtual tours:

Egyptian antiquities
Galerie d’Apollon
The Remains of Louvre's Moat! — what we think will be the biggest hit with kids!

There is also this site: https://www.youvisit.com/tour/louvremuseum

More Activities

Adjectives

Below are different things found in different kinds of museums. Can your child guess the word that might describe....

A Song

Music that makes you want to dance (happy, upbeat, joyful, fun)
Music that makes you want to cry (heartbreaking, sad music, blue)
*Dance slowly to show the concept "slow"* (slow music, downtempo)
*Dance quickly to show the concept "fast"* (fast music, uptempo)

A Painting

When something looks real, it's called.... (realistic, lifelike, vivid)
What's another word for "lovely"? (beautiful, pretty)
A painting with lots of colors (colorful, rich, vibrant)

A Sculpture

Made of..... (clay, stone, wood, metal, ivory, plastic, paper)
Feels.... (smooth, rough, bumpy, cold, silky)
Looks... (realistic, beautiful, graceful, pretty)
Size (tiny, small, enormous, life sized)

Dinosaur Bones

Color (white, grey, brown, ecru, yellow, black)
Feel (smooth, hard, flush)
Look (shiny, burnished, long, polished)

Vocabulary

Below are five types of museums from the links above. Within each category (Art, Music...) are smaller categories. Some things are on more than one list. What else could be on more than one list?

Art

Sculpture
Painting
Wood Carving
Pottery/Ceramics
Animation
Music
Mosaic
Manuscript
Performance
Photography
Performance
Dance

Music

Ancient
Modern
Eastern
Western
Jazz
Mariachi
Classical
Country
Hip Hop
Rock n Roll
Folk
Rhythm and blues
Baroque
Pop
Bluegrass

Antiquities

Artifacts
Monuments
Sculptures
Manuscripts (new word?)
Ruins
Pottery/Ceramics

Science

Archaeology
Astronomy
Physics
Geology
Chemistry
Biology
Anthropology
Botany (can you find out what this word means?)

Natural History

Geology
Plant life (botany)
Animal life
Ancient plant and animal life
Fossils
Biology
Anthropology

In which kind(s) of museum(s) would you find...

Dinosaur bones?
Mummies?
Paintings?
Old telephones?
Roman pottery?
Plants?
Record players?
Exhibits here you can play?
Experiments?

Name a....

famous rapper
famous band
famous composer (look it up!)
type of music
type of musical instrument
stringed instrument

Which dinosaurs are...

predators?
herbivores?
small?
large?
winged?
two legged?

Guess Who!

Visit this link: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory.html

I have spikes along my back.
I have a long neck.
My name means "double beam."

Rhythm with Ella Fitzgerald

A Tisket A Tasket - Great song for spring. It references colors for the younger kids, and for the older kids, there's an allegory for them to explore.

A jazzy rendition of Old MacDonald Had a Farm - This song has great percussion. It's also kind of fun to see adult jazz musicians play this classic children's song.

Double Meaning Word!

The word "jam" has two meanings. Do you know what they are? Can you guess the two meanings from the sentences below?

I spread jam on my toast.
He came to jam with the band.
We made jam out of strawberries.
I'm to jam out with my guitar.

Clap to It!

How many syllables are in each word? Clap to each syllable.

Example: "Dinosaur"

di.no.saur = 3 syllables

Example: "Museum"

mu.se.um = 3 syllables

Thank you, Michele Rodriguez M.A. CCC-SLP and Carina Pichardo, for the material.

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