What does a police officer do?
Forest rangers work to preserve parks and they also protect people from the dangers within the park. To be a ranger, you need to know a lot about animals and plants. Forest rangers must observe and learn as much as they can about nature.
Earth day! Celebrate Earth Day with these tips for helping our environment.
Tools:
What is one of the most useful things to observe nature? Forest rangers use a lot of special tools to see things that are far away…yes! Binoculars! Let’s craft!
Show your child what binoculars are, they are very fun to play with! You can observe things from outside, or you can see the outside world from your home through a window. We can also do a ranger book, where we stick flowers or leaves that we collect from our walks outside every day into a book!
Sensory activities:
NATURE WALK & COUNT – GROSS MOTOR AND MATH ACTIVITY: Take math outside with this great and totally flexible nature math activity. For younger children, this can be a simple nature scavenger hunt, and for older students, you can count the items on the sheet as you walk around your school playground, local park, or forest. Taking math outside your classroom helps engage children as well as showing your students that math isn’t something only done at school, it’s something we use everywhere. (“No Time for Flash cards“).
PLEASE use your binoculars to see things that far away and use a magnifying glass to look carefully to the things you have close to you. You can collect leaves, flowers, … and preserve them to make a beautiful craft or to add to create a nature notebook about the things you find in your walks.
Transportation:
Connecting the learning with real life: What can we do protect the nature?
Why it’s time to stop giving your kids plastic straws
They’re bendy, fun to play with and may even get your kids to drink more water, but an estimated 57 million straws are thrown away every day in Canada—and something needs to change. (https://www.todaysparent.com/family/family-life/plastic-straws/)
Straws are very handy and useful. Apparently an object that every child need to use. But the reality is that they are very bad for the environment. When I arrived to China last year I was surprise about how much plastic we use in this country (if I compared with Spain where I from). One of the things that shocked me the most was yogurt. So In Spain we use spoons to eat the yogurt but in China they drink it and each yogurt has a straw. Can you imagine how many straws we are throwing away? That is exactly what we worked last year at school. We collected the straws that we were using every day to know how many we were using every week. So we were practising counting too! You can do that at home to. To make the children understand we paint turtles and I prepare a turtle hunt, but something happened… when the children found the turtles that were hidden, they were in pain! they had a straw in their nose! The same straws we were using every day to drink our yogurt and that is how they made the connection. So I invite you to do the same at home and change the straw for a spoon.
CISS Kindergarten 