Beginning with the preschool years, the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum offers educational programs to support the learning opportunities for the area.
The second session of “Healthy Kids from A to Z” will begin on February 8th and continue to April 4th. This program is open to three, four, and five year olds. The program will be offered in eight week sessions with each session introducing a letter of the alphabet and activities and crafts to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Mothers will have an opportunity to socialize each week and also attend programs for maintaining a healthy family. Children may play in the museum after each class. These classes are sponsored by the Hunt Regional Healthcare and the Texas A&M – Commerce Recreational Center.
A program (Monster Math) to support the teaching of math in third grade will be offered each October. Measurement will be the subject of four lessons. Measurement was selected because of the difficulty statewide in understanding this concept. The lessons are being written by a math professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Weird Science will be offered on February 7, 2012.. Weird Science, a program for fifth graders, was offered in February of 2010 and 2011. The science program supported the teaching of fourteen of the elements of the Essential Knowledges and Skills on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills taken by every student in the State. Almost 1,000 students participated in the program.