EXCEL Activities
Our group often meets outside of co-op classes for field trips, parties, park days, and similar outings. Any of our members are free to coordinate these activities. Many venues offer group rates which allow us to save money while spending time with friends. Please join the "Homeschoolers EXCEL" group on Facebook if you are interested, as we use it to coordinate our events. EXCEL activities are open to all!
For 2010-11 DCT (Dallas Children's Theater) plays, contact Elizabeth Holman to sign up. The tickets are $7.50 for everyone 3 and older.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Signup | Event | Description |
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| 9.8.2011 @ 10:30 am | Contact Teri Davis to register! | Amon Carter Museum "Picturing America" tour | The Amon Carter's team of professional Gallery Teachers has developed
grade-appropriate, inquiry-based tours of the museum's collection tied to
Picturing America themes. Tours related to Picturing America include
Leadership in Art and Picturing History Through Art. Tours last ninety minutes and may include
writing and/or sketching activities. As always, our tour is FREE!
We will be looking at African-American Artists and their works. They will have
programming for Kindergarten(ish) and up (if you think your 4 year old can follow with the group
and be ok with a gallery teacher and a group of kids, they are welcome). The adults do not join
with the kids. Last year, the adults had their own separate program which was really wonderful!
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| 10.8.2011 @ 11:30 am | Contact our field trip coordinator (on the Yahoo group or Facebook) to register! |
InSync Exotics | We will tour the wildlife rescue and education center. The leopard, lion, and
serval are the three African cats we will meet. At 1:00, Roots & Shoots will provide enrichment. We can watch the cats get
their new toys! $4 child, $5 adult.
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| 10.13.2011 @ 9:00 am | Contact our field trip coordinator (on the Yahoo group or Facebook) to register! | Dallas Zoo | Stay as long as you want! $5 kids and adults, plus $3 for tour. We will have a
monorail safari tour at 10:00, which is a
20-minute, one-mile, narrated tour that travels through six African habitats--forest, river, woodland,
desert, mountain and bush--where animals roam freely. Ride through the Ituri forest, home to the rare okapi.
Climb to the mountain habitat where you might observe the big horned Nubian ibex challenging each other by
colliding head-on, horn to horn. Penetrate the jungle of the river habitat, go through a waterfall
and observe many species of birds. Get eye-to-eye with chimpanzees sitting in trees in the
Kimberly-Clark Chimpanzee Forest as you pass by. The monorail is $3.00 per person for ages 3 and up; free for ages 2 and under.
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| 11.3.2011 @ 10:00 am | Contact our field trip coordinator (on the Yahoo group or Facebook) to register! | Dallas Museum of Art African Headwear: Beyond Fashion | An exhibition of approximately fifty
objects from the Museum's collection of African art, internationally acclaimed as one
of the top five of its kind in the United States, explores the way in which headwear
signifies status in traditional African societies. Often made of unusual materials, such
as the skin from a pangolin (spiny anteater), ostrich shell, wood and copper, various
types of nutshells, lion mane, and human hair, African headwear can also include glass beads,
plastic buttons, and ostrich feathers used in unfamiliar ways. **more info to come on price**
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