Publisher's Synopsis
Connecting Children to the Wonder of Nature
There's a whole world outdoors waiting to embrace young children-with their curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm-and to impart its treasures. Experiencing Nature With Young Children invites you to explore this world with children from birth to age 8 in ways that will:
- Awaken their enjoyment and appreciation of nature
- Nurture their emotional development
- Enhance their cognitive growth
- Spark their creativity
- Help them discover how we all-people, animals, plants-are connected
- Engage families and communities in preserving nature
Along the way, children will learn to love nature and its inhabitants. And in learning to love, they will learn to care-helping to ensure that our natural environment will be well looked-after by the next generation. Part ballad to nature, part irresistible invitation to teachers, this book will awaken and renew your own joy in nature-and move you to experience it with young children.
