Publisher's Synopsis
Interesting facts about domestication enrich in this great fun educational STEAM book, stimulating reading proficiency together with imagination and care for endangered species. Raising Creative Thinkers Series: Dogs and cats offers heartwarming poems to captivate the children's curiosity. The interactive coloring pages and writing prompts ignite kids to practice literacy. The students are excited to write, since this book invites them to add in their own ideas. Having connected with pets and their relatives in the wild, the kids choose an animal they wish to set free. Engaging coloring pages lead them through the process of creative problem solving to see how they can help this animal. They start by practicing divergent thinking - coming up with multiple solutions and developing them. Then convergent thinking - choosing a solution and making it work.Help kids learn to read and write with this stimulating book. They will be eager to complete it making it their own, setting their path to brilliance. Inspire children to reach higher and shine with creativity, connecting with their strengths and becoming motivated students.Michelle's 5 E's strategy helps foster kids' creative thinking. Explore - Learning without noticing by stories and poems. Experience - Coloring and drawing freely, "playing" with the inspiring information. Examine - Checking the ideas the kids drew on. Elevate - Recommending how to take the kids' ideas to the next level. Express - Invite the children to present their creative work. Finally, ask them to debrief and write about the whole experience - enhancing literacy skills together with amplifying creative confidence. Drawing and coloring is a language kids are familiar with since they have been toddlers. Interweaving drawing and coloring into learning reading and writing makes language more user-friendly for them. What's more children are fascinated by dogs and cats. That is what makes this book irresistible for them. If a child doesn't like to color and draw, check if someone has remarked offensively about a drawing the kid once made, and encourage...The kids discover about how the cavemen domesticated pet wolfs. Today's cats are also descendants to exotic wildlife. Our pets' relatives in the wild are today endangered species. On top of instilling environmental values, this book enhances creative problem-solving skills in a fun educational way. It's a great blend of cat book and dog book for kids.Michelle Korenfeld is an Amazon author, lifelong creativity practitioner, 21st century learning curriculum developer, facilitator, painter and poet. Michelle is driven to nurture curiosity in children's hearts and minds. She is the director of Raising Creative Thinkers, whose blog helps teachers, educators, parents and grandparents step up 21st century learning. People come to her workshops in order to raise creative thinkers and find out they have raised themselves as such. Using the 5 E's as a success routine, people find creative problem solving accessible and simple. Michelle's STEAM resources are based on 20 years of experience integrating art and literature with nature, science and environment. Raising Creative Thinkers' books and strategy are based on a humanistic and caring approach. They are designed to foster 21st century skills like imagination, flexibility, communication. collaboration, and innovation. Michelle Korenfeld's STEAM education books are based on her workshops at the Creative Problem-Solving Institute, by the Creative Education Foundation, in the university at Buffalo New York. Her materials are based on her teaching at the Dr. Erica Landau Institute for the Advancement of Youth to Excellence and Creativity in Tel Aviv. The scientific facts are based on conversations with Dr. Moshe Rishpon, who established the Clore Garden of Science and The Science Oriented Youth Department in The Weizmann Institute, a worldwide science education leader.
