Dayton Art Institute

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September 24, 2018 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

The Dayton Art Institute is a great beginner art museum for people of all ages.

It’s small and doesn’t take long to go through. There are some important examples of art for every era.

For military families, DAI is FREE all summer long. Students and kids are always FREE.

My teen daughter and I visited to check it out.

We were a little silly.

Some of our favorites:

Visit DAI:

REGULAR HOURS
MONDAY	Closed
TUESDAY	Closed
WEDNESDAY	11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
THURSDAY	11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
FRIDAY	11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
SATURDAY	11 a.m. – 5 p.m
SUNDAY	Noon – 5 p.m.

Leo Bistro is now open!

MUSEUM ADMISSION
Suggested general admission to the museum’s collection galleries:

Adults: $8
Seniors, Groups & Active Military: $5
Members, Students, & Youth: FREE

NOTE: Special exhibitions, programs and events may carry an additional admission charge.

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Städel Museum

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June 9, 2016 By Jennifer 1 Comment

We love art museums! Most of our travels center around visiting art.

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt offers 700 years of art under a single roof.

What to see:

Old Masters

van Eyck, Vermeer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rembrandt, Botticelli

Modern

Monet, Degas, Kirchner, Picasso

Contemporary

Francis Bacon, Warhol

Prints and Drawings

Durer, Pollack, Ernst, Cezanne, Delacroix, Raphael, Rembrandt

We were excited to see the Impressionist art after studying them!

This statue of Esmeralda and the Goat by Antonio Rosetti is lovely.

We saw some fun contemporary art:

We still don’t know what to think of this one:

Don’t miss the fun outdoors exhibit with mirrors and let the kids run around.

Admission

14 € for adults

24 € for families

Admission is free for children under the age of 12.

Free wifi!

Hours

Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Thu, Fri 10 am – 9 pm
closed Mondays

Prints and Drawings

Wed 2 – 5 pm
Thu 2 – 7 pm
Fri 2 – 5 pm

The Städel Museum is about 1.5 hours from Ramstein and 2 hours from Spangdahlem.

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Speyer Technik Museum

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February 16, 2016 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

We visited Technik Museum Speyer and admission next door to the Museum Wilhelmsbau is included!

We loved seeing cars, planes, space vehicles, and the train!

There are places throughout the museum where you can insert a coin and the machines actually move. It was very educational.

Alex on train Antler Chair

Alex loved the big tires!

Big Tire

There’s a gorgeous antique carousel too!

Carousel

Outside are airplanes to explore and slides!

Katie sliding

Tori sliding

We stopped at the cafe and got ice cream and drinks.

Katie w Ice cream

The kids loved this fun sculpture in the courtyard.

Climbing Statue

We loved all the costumes and music machines next door at the Wilhelmsbau Museum.

Orchestrions

Admission:

9-5 every day!

Children under 5 years: Free
Children 6 to 14 years old: € 12
Adults: € 14

It’s about an hour from Ramstein and 2 hours from Spangdahlem.

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Natural History Museum Field Trip

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October 2, 2012 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

We went to the new Natural History Museum of Utah to explore.

It’s a HUGE place with so many exhibits and collections.

Alex really liked all the skeletons of animals.

Katie loved seeing the bugs. Especially since these weren’t alive.

Sweeping for fossils.

This was a huge gravel pit outside on a patio where the kids could sweep and uncover an entire dinosaur skeleton.

Giant sloth…Sid?!

Alex loved looking through the magnifying glass to see the brine shrimp, er, sea monkeys.

Way to knock out some of our Tapestry of Grace projects at the field trip!

weaving, plied cordage, twining.

A model of layers of an archeological dig of a hut.

It was a playground!

Just a cute pic of my babies.

Watching wind erosion inside a tunnel.

Alex was obsessed with these fact wheels. He just wanted to spin them.

How cool is this? They offered notebooking pages in their science lab for museum attendees to write about their experiences.

Tori drew roly polies and said she likes them. Katie drew beetles and said they were pretty. I love it!

Alex was so exhausted that he fell asleep right as we were pulling into the PF Chang’s parking lot. He did wake up for the rice and noodles though!

Visit the Natural History Museum of Utah:

Daily, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Adult $13.00

Senior 65 and over $11.00

Young Adult 13 – 24 $11.00

Child 3 – 12 $9.00

Child 2 and under FREE

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Clark Planetarium and IMAX Field Trip

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August 18, 2012 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

When I heard we could go see an IMAX about Pangaea for FREE, I was excited.

And the Clark Planetarium is always free. This doesn’t get any better!

All we had to do was make clay dinosaurs since the IMAX is Claymation. Easy peasy!

The nifty electricity ball

Working on their scavenger hunts from the planetarium’s website.

A really cool projector-illuminated Earth…

We saw meteors, moon rocks, and Mars rocks.

Katie is irritated with me here that I interrupted her “scavenging.”

Display of different kinds of space rocks

Alex was fascinated by the pendulum that showed the movement of Earth

The movie was great.

We had popcorn, slushies, candy, and it was 3D!

Alex did really well sitting still and watching it and keeping his glasses on.

The film was snarky and fun and Claymation!

It gave us some opportunities to have conversation about Creationism and evolution and dinosaurs.

We had just learned about Pangaea in our Apologia Exploring Creation with Land Animals book!

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Hill AFB Aerospace Museum

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July 19, 2012 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Our trip to the Aviation Museum

We visited the Hill Aerospace Museum.

Always chokes me up to see that POW/MIA flag…

BIG airplane

Even the wheels are big! The kids measure up.

Holding up the nose

Cuties

Alex loved having boy cousins around!

Fun being able to climb all over helicopters!

Uncle was nice to lift up the kids so they could see inside an airplane.

Lights! Buttons!

Showing the different areas of the Ogden armory

reminiscent of M.A.S.H.

Katie being goofy

Me and my Bubba

Katie and cousin silhouette

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Children’s Museum with the Cousins

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July 17, 2012 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Our kids’ museum has a literacy theme. We love the Treehouse Museum.

We started with the castle room this time and worked our way down.

Not the Chosen One…

Dressup Castle

Queen and her jester

Royal Cousins

Cool light table

Marimba! pretty cool music

Awesome view microscope. Alex loved these and could do it all by himself!

Baby doctors Tori and Katie

More dress up…

Crafts stations…don’tcha know that boy went for the scissors!

Climbing the treehouse

Kate loves cows

Firefighters…

an Air Force horse statue. These are all over town decorated with regional attractions. I love it.

Visit the Treehouse Museum

Hours:

Monday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (September – May)
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (June – August and MLK Jr. Day, President’s Day, Labor Day & Christmas Break)

Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Friday 
10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Sunday  Closed

Closed January 1, Memorial Day, July 4, July 24, Thanksgiving & Christmas Day

Tickets:

Children age 1-12: $7
Adults and Children 13+: $5
Babies under age 1: Free

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Ogden Union Station

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February 27, 2012 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

I found and downloaded the cutest sentence pages from Pinterest! I adapted them to be more Montessori by drawing the grammar symbols beside the words and on the worksheets.
We have officially completed the You Can Read sight word program! I don’t know if I really did it justice since the girls didn’t like some of the activities. They did really like the sentences and word searches and different fonts. I think they learned a lot though and we can review now. I found this neato site to study word families!

The girls are kinda tired of the Letter of the Week work too. I think we’ll transition a little early into 1st grade work so we don’t get bogged down in minutiae. This month we’ve been moving into Year 1 with Ambleside Online and The Well Trained Mind curriculum.

I like Pinterest for finding fun and free teaching ideas. I’ve discovered some really fun 1st grade blogs I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to come across.
Learning about deserts and Australia the next couple weeks. Found this beautiful book at the library!

Working on Presidents’ Day printables…

well, Tori looks happy about it. Katie has been rather disagreeable lately…

Tori working on her word families pages. She begged to do it while I was making dinner!

Working on Draw Write Now. This week was a turkey. Tori wants to go hunt one for dinner next Thanksgiving! Should this concern me?

Katie loves our new Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden USA Map Puzzle. I am amazed how many states and capitals she knows! She loves playing the Stack the States app, which I think is too challenging for her, but it must be working!

A visit to the Odgen Union Station Train Museum, just for the fun of it!

I love the photo op of the train car. It looks real!

The Caboose!

We loved the model trains too. They started at the push of a button.

Visit Union Station

Open Monday – Saturday 10:00am–5:00pm
Closed July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day

Adults $5 | Senior $4 | Student $4 | Child $3
Family Day Pass $15

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