Horizons Unlimited

06/04/2026

⚡THROWBACK THURSDAY⚡

🏠🚸Our homeschool day was an absolute blast filled with learning, creativity, and hands-on fun for the whole family! 🎉

🐾Visitors explored our Living Room through exciting animal-focused stations including a 'make your own s**t' bar, creating animal prints, and a nature scavenger hunt that had everyone on the move. 🌿🔍

⚙️STEM challenges brought out the engineers in our young learners as they built catapults, tackled the classic egg drop, and designed marble run rollercoasters that kept the excitement rolling! 🎢

🦎Sweet meet-and-greet moments with our incredible animal ambassadors were a highlight for guests of all ages, and our Collab Lab rounded out the day with imaginative creative play stations that let curiosity run wild.

✨ We absolutely loved welcoming our homeschool community and can't wait to do it all again!

06/01/2026

🌞📚 Summer is HERE and so is Summer Reading! 📚🌞

🐾Even our animal ambassadors are hitting the books this season! If they can find time to read between naps 😴 and snack time 🫐, so can you! 😄

This summer, we challenge YOU to dive into a great book — and your local Rowan Public Library is the PERFECT place to start! Libraries across the area are hosting FREE summer reading events, programs, and activities for kids of all ages. From story times to reading challenges, there's something for everyone!

👉 Visit your local to sign up for their Summer Reading Program and discover all the fun events happening near you!
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📖 And don't forget — stop by on Tuesday afternoons for : a STEM Storytime, featuring our animal ambassadors and their favorite books! 🔬🐾 It's a wild, wonderful way to explore science and reading together!

📚 Happy reading, friends — and remember, every page is a new adventure!

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06/01/2026

05/28/2026

🎶🎸Are you a fan of Pink Floyd or The Wall? This is your last chance to purchase tickets for tonight's laser shows.

🎟 Grab your tickets at https://bit.ly/HU26SpLaserShows!

05/26/2026

🍎Forces and motion came alive as 5th graders from around the district tackled an amazing lineup of STEM challenges!

🚢⚡ They engineered and launched their own ships to measure speed and test the impact of added weight, virtually rode a rollercoaster with our VR goggles before designing and building their very own, and put their creativity to the test with Rube Goldberg-like machines. 🎢🔧

🌕🪐 Students also explored how gravity behaves differently on Earth, other planets, and moons — and some even used our Dash robots to dive into energy transfer through a wetlands ecosystem, interacting as different consumers in the food web! 🤖🌿

These days were packed with curiosity, collaboration, and some seriously impressive young engineers! 💡✨

China Grove Elementary School Morgan Elementary School C. T. Overton Elementary School Summit Virtual Academy Knollwood Elementary School

05/22/2026

⚡FLASHBACK FRIDAY⚡

Today we recall the joy of hosting cherished visitors from and their young friends, who spent the day meeting our animal ambassadors, sharing a lovely lunch, and gazing at the stars together during a special planetarium star talk! 🌠

🐾🍽️ Moments like these remind us that curiosity and wonder have no age limit! ❤️✨

05/21/2026

🎶🎸Last call to purchase tickets for tonight's show of Queen & Elton John, featuring 'We Will Rock You', 'Rocketman', and more! 🚀

🎫Grab tickets while you still can!
https://bit.ly/HU26SpLaserShows

05/18/2026

🌿📚Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, May 19th at 4:30pm for our STEM Storytime - Once Upon a Discovery!

🍱🥟This week features the books Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando (all about why and how he created instant ramen noodles) by Andrea Wang and Home in a Lunchbox (a wordless picture book) by Cherry Mo!

🍜🥠After reading the books, design your own lunchbox and fill it with mini-food, modeled with air dry clay.

05/16/2026

📚✨ STEM Book Saturday ✨📚

🌋 This week's pick is Kaboom! A Volcano Erupts by Jessica Kulekjian, illustrated by Zoe Si! In this award-winning nonfiction picture book, a sleepy volcano wakes up and tells its own eruption story — from the first rumbles deep underground all the way to a giant KABOOM! 🔥

A funny little red bird pops up on every page to drop science facts about tectonic plates, magma chambers, ash clouds, and more. The colorful cutaway illustrations make it easy to see exactly what's happening inside the volcano — it's earth science brought to life!

🔬 Perfect for grades 3–5, this book covers some seriously cool STEM concepts — geology, volcanology, the volcanic cycle, rock and mineral formation, and even erosion. It's a great conversation starter and read-aloud for curious kids who love learning about the natural world! 🌍

🧪 After reading, make it hands-on! Build a baking soda volcano at home or in the classroom — mix baking soda and vinegar, add a few drops of red food coloring, and watch the "lava" flow! 🎉 It's a simple way to connect the chemistry of acids and bases to the real science in the book.

Happy reading, and happy experimenting!