“Animal Alphabet” by Ale Lluch is used to teach the Alphabet both capitalized and lowercased letters, reading, spelling, pronunciation, and associating words with their meaning. It includes animals in the book to associate letters with specific animals and how these animals are pronounced. The book has thick cardboard pages which uses sliding pieces. On the top of the moving peace it displays both upper and lowercase letters of a specific letter in the alphabet. When you move the piece to the left it reveals an animal associated with that letter as well as the spelling of it. The artist used a fun technique that allows the children to be directly involved with the book by allowing them to slide the piece back and forth. They see the letters in the alphabet and then the book shows them how letters associate with the sound of animal types. For example it has the letter B, b and then the child slides the piece and it displays a picture of a bear with how the word bear is spelled. The person reading the book to the child would pronounce the B sound and then say the word bear. My daughter is 3 years old and she can recognize letters and…
The text chosen for phase 2 of the text set project is National Geographic Kids: Weather by Kristin Baird Rattini. This is a non-fiction book that allows students to explore various kinds of weather such as rain, sunshine, snow, thunder, lightning, wind and clouds. The pictures in the book are very bright and colorful. It shows children biking through the grass on a sunny day, children in the rain wearing rain gear catching raindrops in their mouths, children playing in a pool, different clouds (flat and gray, thin and wispy) and children playing in the snow. The book has a table of contents with chapters that are 2-3 pages.…
Another activity that I have carried out is the 'bird feeders' activity. When planning this I considered and allergies of the children, where to hang the feeders so they were visible to the children and wether…
The park rangers give free educational talks in the evenings, telling stories around the campfires. They have many hiking trails that lead to waterfalls,…
When I was in first grade my entire class went on a field trip to Bee City Honeybee Farm, Petting Zoo, and Nature Center. On that field trip, we learned a lot about bees, (though now that I’m older, I recall just about one thing from that entire trip) and other animals.…
* Engage children in a discussion about animals. Ask questions such as, Who has a pet animal at home? Where does your pet sleep? What sounds does it make? What other animals do you know? What do those animals do? What sounds do they make? What are the differences between pet animals and wild animals?…
In the book, “Last Child in the Woods”, talks about how children need to be aware of their surroundings on a day-to-day basis and their environments. Many children experience their skills inside and outside the classroom. In my opinion, in today’s society we are teaching young educators to avoid any direct interaction in nature. Richard Louv begins her book by stating the importance of nature inside the classroom. As a future educator, I believe that the ultimate message is delivered in schools, within families, and outside organizations who devote time outdoors. Educators should know the significant as children develop fine and gross motor skill through play and communication with…
36, Louv) defined as “the human costs of alienation from nature” affects more than just the parents of today’s generation. Because of parents being too busy to spend time with their child or let them play outside they just give them an electronic device to pay on thinking that it is a safer alternative to going outside where they could get injured or kidnapped. Unfortunately doing so is stifling the children’s creativity. Not allowing kids to be free to experience nature does a lot of harm, if people, especially children went outdoors more there would be no “Nature-deficit disorder”. Not only does not going outside squelch/REPRESS creativity, but it also causes both physical and mental damage. It is proven in that going outdoors makes people happier and healthier. Such evidence is shown in the South University study where Dr. Susanne Preston a professor at South University says, “being outside and spending time in nature is good for a person’s mental health, as it allows them to de-stress”. The less stress one has the more happy and healthy they are. If today’s youth are taught to go and play outside the same will carry on for their children and generations to come. The world could make monumental improvements if everyone, particularly children were outside more…
Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document, The Council of Chalcedon, and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this, Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The only thing the stood in the way of Attila and Rome was Pope Leo and the Papacy. Pope Leo the Great coaxed Attila not to invade Italy. This persuasion shows that in fact Pope Leo the Great’s approach to the barbarian invasions of Western Europe were generally successful ones. Pope Leo was successful in his persuasion of the Huns because Pope Leo the Great was persistent in his efforts. He was not so successful when he could not convince the Vandals to stay away from Rome, he did convince them to not completely destroy and burn the city; that is still a success.…
This play will allow students the opportunity to actively engage in learning about animal environments. Students can be assigned various characters including: zookeeper, certain animals, or the chorus. The amount of action and movement can be increased or decreased depending on the room size. The dialogue is simple yet provides a powerful message about animal habitats. This play allows variety to help reiterate the importance of a particular environment for a particular animal species. Repetition will help to solidify the necessity of animals choosing a suitable environment by using…
The strategies I would use for promoting curiosity would be promoting the work of an exotic wild life rescue. I would promote the zoo, park rangers and wild life rangers. These individuals get hands on training with such animals and understand more of their dangers that people that house them may not understand. They also go to school to understand the way they live and need for survival. They could educate the individuals that have the need to house such exotic animals. I could also promote the idea of creating a treatment program for people that want to…
The book “Dinosaurs” is directed towards kids around the age group of 4 to 8 year olds. In a cognitive viewpoint children interested in dinosaurs enjoy the screening and figures of giant creatures that roamed the Earth long ago. This book is directed to the younger children to give a first glance to what ruled the land long ago, thus giving kid’s room to use their imagination. The cognitive approach for this book is to get the child to think about The main idea of the story is to get the kids to see the size of some dinosaurs and how scientists discovered them. Besides the fact of learning, this book is more of an interesting story with pictures, keeping little kids interested. Developing a personality of some sort, through what they enjoy.…
“Dinofours” by Steve Metzger was my favorite series of books I liked to have read to me when I was little. My absolute favorite book in the series was “It’s time for school!” I would make my mom read it to me everyday when I was getting ready to go to preschool for the first time. This book is special to me because it made me excited to go to school and learn at a very young age. As a reader, this book allowed me to enjoy learning how to read. As I got older, I would find myself coming back to the books when I could read them myself. This book also inspired me to read more books to find more stories that intrigued me as much as this one did.…
encourages responsibility and development of new skills. In addition Samfira & Petroman (2011, p.153) claim that animal assisted activities have a positive impact on behaviour and education. Research studies have shown that the…
As outdoor education has evolved in the decades since the 1950s, however, so too has its definition. In Adventure education: Some semantics, Lund (2002) says that outdoor education is “an experiential method of learning with the use of all senses. It takes place primarily, but not exclusively, through exposure to the natural environment. In outdoor education, the emphasis for the subject of learning is placed on relationships concerning people and natural resources.”…