On Wednesday nights at 6:00 p.m. the children’s room at Blackstone Branch is transformed into a creative, fun laboratory of experiments, board games and Lego cities. Wednesday evening children have the choice of completing a Discovery challenge, playing a board game, getting interactive online or building a new structure with wooden blocks and Legos. Parents work and play with their children as they learn together the fundamentals of Zoo-opoly, the differences between predator and prey or new vocabulary with a friendly game of Scrabble. The creative juices burst out of children like a geyser and form new insights for all of us to learn from. Take for example the simple yet powerful poem of 6 year old Pharaoh:
I am Pharaoh.
I am energy.
I am strength.
I am power.
I am love…love.
I am the universe.
I am a leader.
I am Pharoah.
- Children young and old enjoying a good game of Zoo-opoly!
