{"id":4400,"date":"2014-07-02T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:10:54","slug":"louisiana-childrens-museum-helps-kids-develop-emotional-literacy-through-play-power-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/louisiana-childrens-museum-helps-kids-develop-emotional-literacy-through-play-power-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Children&#8217;s Museum Helps Kids Develop Emotional Literacy Through &#8216;Play Power&#8217; Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/156983108&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum is more than just a place to visit. One of the Museum\u2019s traveling outreach programs is Play Power, which visits schools and NORD camps in areas of New Orleans deeply impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Play Power encourages children to enjoy learning through emphasis on free expression and laughter. The Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum believes a focus on early education instills in children the skills vital to success not just in school, but in a lifelong journey of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Ereeni Roulakis, an educator with the Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum, talks to a class inside Arthur Ashe Charter School in Gentilly. Four, five, and six years olds, enrolled in a NORD summer camp, sit before props and a small puppet theater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiss Austin and I have come from the Children\u2019s Museum,\u201d explains Roulakis. \u201cRaise your hand if you\u2019ve ever been to the Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum. Today is really exciting because instead of taking a trip to the Children\u2019s Museum, we have taken a field trip to you guys. Miss Austin and I do a program called Play Power. Where we do art and games and lessons and talk about a lot of different things in Play Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we\u2019re really focusing on resiliency,\u201d explains Roulakis\u2019s partner, Allison Austin. \u201cJust building up kids self esteem and confidence and their ability to bounce back from any kid of daily trauma or even disaster related trauma that they make experience. Letting them develop socially and emotionally in a healthy, safe space, where they feel they can be their own person and have fun and not be so worried about a test, just being a kid and having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First things first: the kids introduce themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Deanne, and what I like to do outside is play with my big brother.\u00a0 He\u2019s 24 and about to make 25 in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Amari and I like to go outside to go in the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Vance and I like to go outside and play with my dog, Honey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, they get ready to read and act out The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre there trees in the Lorax?\u201d asks Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes!\u201d Answer the children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd do trees grow big and tall and strong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need everybody to get down and pretend that you\u2019re a seed. Miss Ereeni is going to walk around and water us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roulakis begins to read, as kids act out the parts of the Once-ler, the Truffula Trees, and of course, the Lorax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay back in the days when the grass was still green, and the pool was still wet, and the clouds were still clean\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who need a little refresher, The Lorax is a children\u2019s story of environmental degradation.\u00a0Truffula Trees are chopped down by the Once-ler to make things called Thneeds. The factory churns, the air fills with smoke, and the animals, who can no longer survive in the environment, leave.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Austin points to a mostly blank piece of white paper hanging on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a mural over there,\u201d points Austion. \u201cIt\u2019s all desolate and they have to transform it to a beautiful space, inspired by the Lorax. So we\u2019re going to talk about \u2014 contrast and compare the environment after the Once-ler came to before the Once-ler. We\u2019re going to ask them which environment they\u2019d rather live in and why, and they have to transform all that barren drawing into something beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this lesson, we\u2019re trying to\u00a0 focus on trying to gain control over situations around us that we don\u2019t necessarily have control over,\u201d explains Roulakis. \u201cSo what can we do with really big issues like environmental degradation and pollution, all these issues that impact us. Trying to make them feel like they have control over a situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Engle, the Community Engagement Manager for Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum, says Play Power was started after Katrina as a place for kids to heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got started in 2006 and it\u2019s still going on because it provides a safe place for kids to learn about their feelings and about their community and about their environment, which nowadays teachers have so little time to treat those things.\u00a0 We\u2019re in a test sensitive environment, and emotions aren\u2019t on standardized tests,\u201d says Engle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. To learn more about the Louisiana Children&#8217;s Museum, click <a title=\"Louisiana Children's Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/lcm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana Children\u2019s Museum is more than just a place to visit. One of the Museum\u2019s traveling outreach programs is Play Power, which visits schools and NORD camps in areas of New Orleans deeply impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Play Power encourages children to enjoy learning through emphasis on free expression and laughter. 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