Nature, Science, Poetry and Imagination -- A Week of Fun

Mikro enjoyed Beczak Environmental Education Center's Hunt for Hatchlings program, featuring an egg hunt, egg painting, and learning all about different kinds of animals who lay eggs.





He's also enjoying his new series of science classes about space. This week was about the life cycle of a star and different types of galaxies.



We also had a great time at a composting workshop with our homeschool group, at the community garden where the group has a plot. And Mikro and I got to hang out with friends afterwards.



This weekend we celebrated Mikro's birthday. I can't believe my baby is 7!

On Saturday, we went to the opening of the Children's Room at Poets House, and attended a wonderful reading by Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston, from their anthology The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science and Imagination. They wrote a poem about the Hudson River and its source at Lake Tear of the Clouds with the children who attended the reading. Mikro had great fun, and especially enjoyed the poem about fossils (naturally!) and getting his book signed.









In the Children's Room, he played with an old Royal typewriter, and wrote a poem with one of the volunteers. He also got a little wild and crazy in the reading nook with the huge pillows and stuffed animals, as did the other little boys present. The staff at Poet's House is amazingly tolerant of little boy exuberance... We stayed for the ribbon cutting ceremony (all the kids who wanted to got to take a snip), then ate lunch in Rockefeller Park, where we enjoyed Tom Otterness' The Real World sculpture garden and watched pigeons, before heading uptown to see How to Train Your Dragon, which Mikro loved.