Reduced admission at children's museum this Thursday morning

I hope a lot of you can make it to the play date on Thursday (see post just below this one).  I just talked to Jim at the Children's Museum, and he said that anyone who is part of our group should say as much when they come in;  the museum will take a dollar off the admission fee for each child ($4 instead of $5) and waive the fee for the adults.

Play date at the children's museum Thurs., Dec. 22

Rebecca had the idea of having a holiday play date at the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum.  We put our heads together and came up with this coming Thursday, 12/22, as a good day-- school will be out, and if we go in the morning it shouldn't be too wild.  I checked with Mr. Jim, and he said he has no other groups scheduled.  Erin and I plan to be there when they open at 10 am-- hope you can join us.

Update:  More information about the children's museum, including hours, directions and admissions can be found on their website.  Click the following link for their FREE Membership Application for Families of Need.  At this time, we don't have any special deal/break on admissions for our group.  I will call next week to see what I can arrange. 

Coming up

I just posted about the upcoming Sensory film.  That same weekend, on Sunday January 8, we'll have our next meeting.  Sorry for the delay in setting a date-- we were out of town all of last week, and well, you know, life's little details...  I hope you can make this meeting so I can bring your thoughts, ideas and concerns with me to the Autism Summit to be held January 20.

Also coming up is another Young Athletes night, this Monday 12/12 at 6:30 pm in the Sandy Knoll gymnasium.  Fun for kids ages 3-8.

Sensory friendly film at library 1/7/2012

We'll be showing another sensory friendly film at Peter White Public Library on Saturday, January 7 at 1:30 p.m. in the Community Room.  I chose Mary Poppins, hoping that an older film might have a more consistent sound levels--in the the last film the sound effects and music were much louder than the dialog, making it hard to find a good volume level for our audience.  This classic movie, staring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, won five Oscars and features lots of great songs and dance numbers.  It runs a bit long at 139 minutes so I would go ahead and encourage walking around, if needed.  I think I'll take a poll at the beginning to see if the audience would like an intermission half-way through.