The Head Start team visits each classroom before their Museum field trip and reads a book we created that describes the many fun things the children will do at the Museum. There is a moment in the book where Nori, the Museum dragon, bellows. This is a big word for 3- to 5-year-olds, so we always ask if they know what it means; we take the opportunity to teach literacy when we can. We describe it as speaking with a loud, deep voice and ask them to say the word with us that way. “Belllllowwwwwwwwww!” we say in unison.
A week after we visited Carter Head Start Center, it was time for the children to come play in the Museum, some for the very first time. I was in Play Power with my group when a 4-year-old girl climbed onto the platform under the dome and said “Hellooooo! I just bellowed, like in the book!” I was so happy to see that something we taught them had stuck like that!
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