Another installment of my son’s exhibits outside my office. Timely as ever we just finished this one up before the building closes for Christmas break. And as the HMS Beagle set sail with Darwin aboard on December 27, (1831), it’s worth sharing now.
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Sesame Street
Just a few days before his next birthday and he chose to swap out Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with everyone’s friends from Sesame Street. To get to this street, you’ll need to find Bizzell Memorial Library and head to the third floor across from the PS call numbers. He chose this topic earlier in the year before it was announced that Sesame Street was losing funding, so it now has an added importance.
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Berenstain Bears
This is another of those larger exhibits my son helps out on. I want to do a much longer post about the Berenstain Bears and their evolution across the decades, but this one was a bit of a test for something I want to do every year as a kind of a summer reading program.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Continuing on with the car theme, even if our Count Car is out of commission following some fuel pump failures and fouled plugs.
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Way Out Wacky Races
What a summer of Wacky Races. We watched all the original series and all of the 2019 Boomerang Series as well. We also ventured across Arkansas ourselves to pick up our Count Car. I also still need to put together a post on Motor Movie Madness about all the racing films that came along in the vein of The Great Race.
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Garfield
Now we are down to school break and semester rotations. Wrapping up the Smurfs anniversary Garfield gets the exhibit treatment. Mostly from watching the old cartoon and reading the books we have.
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Smurfs at 65
Beakman and Ms. Frizzle was constant company for almost a year. But when school was out he wanted to change things up. We had been reading some old smurfs books and watching the old and new cartoons so he picked the Smurfs.
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Beakman’s World & The Magic School Bus
Just a month after turning four he had plans for his first exhibit. Beakman’s World and The Magic School Bus.
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