Home School

Home School Day will provide exclusive activities, for grades Pre-K through 5th to enhance your home school curriculum, including:

• Join our skillful Discovery Guides and embark on a math mission with more than 120 possibilities! Test math strategies and problem solving skills.
• Experiment with a variety of translucent and opaque materials to create a photo negative without using a camera! Reveal a unique design after exposing it to UV light and voila – you’ve got a picture!
• Put your students’ money I.Q. to the ultimate test! Participate in a thrilling quiz show about currency, saving, spending and budgeting.
• Need to keep intruders at bay? Step inside our Inventors’ Workshop and engineer a burglar alarm while learning about electricity and circuits.
• Did you know you can paint with mud? Many people of Gullah heritage in West African would mix pigments with mud to design a beautiful mud cloth. Experience this timeless tradition making a geometric designed mud cloth using customary techniques in our Tales from the Land of Gullah exhibit.
• Journey to the Yalálag: A Mountain Village in México exhibit and enjoy a taste of Mexican history. Make tortillas while you learn that corn is a staple of many meals in Mexico. Mix-up a warm cup of hot chocolate while learning that cacao was so valuable that it was often treated as currency.

Cost:  Activities are included with the cost of general admission: $5 per person. The burglar alarm activity has an additional cost of $4 per alarm.

RSVP:  Lydia Dungus, ldungus@cmhouston.org or 713.535.7238. Please indicate the number of children in your party and their ages.

Lunches must be pre-ordered at least three business days in advance, and a 50% deposit is required at that time. Lunches are $5 plus tax each and include a hot dog, chips, drink and a bag of cookies. For lunch orders, please contact Lydia Dungas at 713.535.7238.

For more information:
Contact Karen Milnar at 713.535.7280