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From: "Alet Boshoff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Talita Fourie" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Early Childhood Development programs at Museums]
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:31:27 +0200
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Hi Emily, I'm Alet Boshoff, Coordinator Youth Market development from the
Northern Flagship Institution in Pretoria, South Africa.
Yes , we do run ECD programmes in some of our museums, which we believe have
the correct mix for this age group.
ECD learners love programmes with
* lots of interactive play;
* live animals;
* natural science, not even with live insects, but are still more interestd
in live things;
* musical insruments which they themselves can play ;
* dancing to music;
*singing simple songs, clapping their hand  to the rhythm;
*Skipping to a rhythm;
*listening to stories, but above all watching Puppet Theatre.

One needs  however to be careful:
* young ones can be qiute destructive and break thing easily,as they tend to
climb ,sit, lie on everything possible;
* and keep in mind that the various age groups do differ in their likes and
behaviour eg 2 yrs olds  will      differ from 3 yrs olds;
*5 -- 6 yrs old are more steady in behaviour.

It is a wonderful market to tapp into, very rewarding!
Presentators of these prgrammes need however to understand them very well. I
found it necessary to  let all my educational officers  be specially trained
in working with ECD learners.
Lots of sucess to you, may you enjoy it!
Kind regards, Alet Boshoff



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From: "Talita Fourie" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [Fwd: Early Childhood Development programs at Museums]


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>
> "Holtrop, Emily (MHM)" wrote:
>
> > Hello Museum listers!
> >
> > I am writing to find out what other museums and cultural institutions
are
> > currently doing in the way of early childhood programming (4 and 5 year
> > olds). It has been brought to our attention that this is a hot group to
> > market programs to and we are looking to jump on that band wagon. If you
> > have any suggestions on what has worked and what hasn't worked for you,
> > please share! Also if you have a website that I can look at that tells
of
> > your programs, I would love to see it! Thanks so much!
> >
> > All the best
> > Emily Holtrop
> > Historical Museum of Southern Florida
> >
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