For optional SMS Alerts, please provide a mobile phone number. Sign Up. OLD Be in the know! Join us for our weekly storytelling adventure, Tales for Tots, held each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at am. Mondays - Museum of Ancient Life 11amam Please purchase a am or 11am ticket for this program. Wednesdays - Farm Country 11amam Please purchase a am or 11am ticket for this program. Fridays - Butterfly Biosphere 11amam Please purchase a am or 11am ticket for this program.
Family groups will be encouraged to space 6 ft. Little to no props will be used and will be thoroughly sanitized after each program. December 20 I Wish to Be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe A c harming tale of an overgrown pine who has always been passed by for Christmas, and his woodland friends who come together to help him achieve his dream of being a very special kind of Christmas tree.
Washington The story of Li'l Rabbit captures the true meaning of Kwanzaa—coming together to help others! He discovers that on this day, and this day only, stores everywhere are giving away a very special treat with any purchase.
Some are for girls. But this tea party is for a very special guest. And it is important to follow some rules January 24 If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most In this delightful book, a small boy imagines a world where dinosaurs perform public services. But when the stockings are hung on the chimney, and the cookies are left out for Santa, how can little dinosaurs go to sleep?
January 5 Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.
January 12 S nowmen at Night by C aralyn Buehner Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered. January 19 T he Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith Join us for a load of laughs with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky- tonky , winky wonky donkey! January 26 Beautiful by Stacy McAnulty Much more than how one looks on the outside, true beauty is found in conquering challenges, showing kindness, and spreading contagious laughter.
Beautiful girls are empowered and smart and strong! January 7 Bring Me A Rock! Higgins It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It completely revitalized Thanksgiving Point. Memberships grew from about 7, households to more than 20, households.
Thanksgiving Point has continued to grow. In January of , Thanksgiving Point opened its fifth venue, the Butterfly Biosphere, an insectarium and butterfly conservatory.
Visitation to Thanksgiving Point is now more than two million guests per year. Thanksgiving Point now faces new challenges. Proud of our former 85 percent earned revenue figure, that number is now difficult to sustain based solely on current operation levels. With that interim support in place at this writing it will end July 1 , we are looking for ways to significantly cut back on the original.
Now more than ever, it is critical that Thanksgiving Point diversify its sources of revenue, including securing more ongoing public support to make up for the upcoming budget shortfalls.
While Thanksgiving Point has experienced significant growth in the past twenty-five years, major challenges and obstacles accompanying that trajectory emerged. Shortly before the opening of the Museum of Natural Curiosity, several changes occurred that helped the organization grow sustainably.
At that time, the senior management team was composed of seven individuals who filled the following roles:. This management structure had evolved organically. Although the entire organization was overseen by the CEO, each venue had its own director and staff. This led to competition among the venues: rather than all five venues acting like parts of one cohesive organization, each venue operated as a silo, resulting in inconsistencies in guest experience and messaging.
While we admired their enthusiasm, the results were adversely affecting the organization as a whole, and not contributing to the development of a stable foundation that could support growth. Consistent with the management structure to date, the opening of the Museum of Natural Curiosity would have required the creation of a new senior management position—director of the museum—bringing the senior management team to eight people. Not only would this have been difficult financially, requiring Thanksgiving Point to pay another senior-level employee, but also it would further complicate the existing silo problems.
A senior management reorganization was deemed necessary to streamline operations, eliminate disconnects, and direct a consistent approach across all venues. Working collaboratively, the senior management team made drastic changes to eliminate silos and set up the organization for more sustainable future growth.
The former director of the Ashton Gardens became the new director of facilities for the entire property, and the former director of the Museum of Ancient Life and Farm Country became the new director of guest experience for all the venues. Do schools need to provide any supplies? Does the program really apply to our curriculum? How many staff do you send? Enough to teach your individual classrooms! Be in the Know! For optional SMS Alerts, please provide a mobile phone number.
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