How Do We Speak With Children? Podcast
Our podcast, The Center, has a new episode! In this episode, we ask: how do we speak with children? We sit down with Greentrike's Learning Experiences Director Alyssa Tongue, and find out about the science, the practice, and the reality of speaking and sitting with children. Transcription below: SHAUN (narrating): [...]
COVID-19 Update for Play to Learn
Update: Please visit our page designated for up-to-date information for COVID-19 closure and program changes. Our highest priority is the safety of our visitors and friends who participate in our programs, and visit our spaces. This includes staying healthy after visiting our museum or one of our programs. With recent [...]
Healthy Practices
We want all visitors and guests of our programs to be safe, and healthy after they play at Children's Museum of Tacoma, at our Play to Learn classes, or any of our programs. To insure this, we ask that all guests, adults and children alike, wash their hands before entering [...]
The Center : a podcast by Greentrike
We are excited to announce and share our first four episodes of The Center - a podcast produced by The Muse: A Children's Center staff and students. The children, and our host Shaun, discuss what it means to be a friend, and how to pretend, and even share some spooky [...]
Census 2020 – Everyone Counts!
Responding to the 2020 Census is an easy, safe, and important way to provide resources for children and their communities. Everyone living in the United States is asked to complete a simple questionnaire every ten years that asks for basic information about the people who live or sleep in their [...]
Why Do We Sing? Podcast
This week on The Center, our podcast on preschool, we ask "Why Do We Sing?" We sit down with music therapist Jocelyn Manzanarez and look at the benefits of singing to children, the importance of play, and how to get over stage fright. Transcription below: (Recording from a classroom) CHILD [...]
Welcome, Greentrike
If you attended the Power of Play Lunch on September 19, you have heard our announcement, but in case you missed it, we would love to introduce you to Greentrike, the Children's Museum of Tacoma's new parent organization. What is Greentrike? The work of the Children’s Museum of Tacoma has [...]
Fall Programs Return!
All fall programs returned September 23! Come play with us at Wee Ones Weekly, every Monday for members, and Friday for everyone, and Play to Learn, at over 20 locations every week across Pierce County!
Children’s Museum of JBLM Opening Date Announced
Greentrike is excited to announce the opening date for Children's Museum of JBLM, August 1, 2020. The Children's Museum of JBLM will be the first children's museum on a military installation. This new location will continue to build upon relationships established through our Play to Learn programming on JBLM, and [...]