Creative Children Like the Animals of the World (Paperback)

Environmental education book for elementary school students offering a unique innovative learning model. This book is packed with full page colorful paintings, drawings, poems, and stories—but it isn’t finished yet! Now it’s the reader’s turn to fill in his or her own imaginative ideas and create a personal, one-of-a-kind book that reflects each child’s own unique personality! Students learn social emotional lessons inspired by the animals in the stories. They connect to mother nature with all their hearts, building an anchor of resilience and hope. Together with environmental literacy, linguistic literacy consolidates due to the rich language and rhyming inspired by Dr. Seuss.

Nature stories and poems + the social-emotional skills they promote:
My Uncle Angel – What is nature? Openness. Imagination.
Cute and Cuter – Butterfly life cycle. Cooperative behavior. Being brothers and sisters is more than being friends. We sometimes take it for granted.
What Did You Think? I’m a Zebra Finch! – Emotion and behavior regulation. Purpose. Self-esteem. Constructive behavior.
Honey: The Bee Who Wanted to Fly – The bee must learn all the tasks of the hive before fulfilling its purpose as a forager. Behavior regulation. Optimism.
The Glow of a Morning Stroll – Meeting an ant that prepares for winter. Planning, self-efficacy and self-directedness.
An Eye at the Tip of a Feather – Showing our true beautiful colors like the peacock confidently displays his tail feathers.
The Chubby Cub and the Child of Courage – Native American story about care, leadership, and values.
In the Shade of an Old Tree – Emotion and behavior regulation. Perspective taking. Cooperation instead of competition.

Environment enrichment and prompts:
Sensational Senses – Discovering the senses. Cognitive flexibility.
Why Do Trees Need Birds? – collaboration. Win-win situations.
Coloring the Parrots in Red and Green? – Playful experience with colors. Complementing colors.
What Stories Do Colors Tell? Do people make things harder on themselves in order to convey social messages?
A Rainbow of Colors – The spectrum of colors visible to humans. Ultraviolet and infrared. Building up motivation to learn science. Cognitive flexibility.
A Rainbow of More than Seven Colors? The primary colors in art and the primary colors of light.
How does the butterfly see the rainbow? Openness. Curiosity. Imagination.
Symmetry: It’s Not Only a Matter of Beauty –Do people prefer symmetrical faces? Would it affect how they perceive the person?
Nature’s Wise Fair Share – Mother nature likes her creatures diverse. There’s room for everybody.

Book mentors:
Dr. Moshe Rishpon - Founder of The Clore Garden of Science & The Science Oriented Youth Department in The Weizmann Institute. This unit is a pioneer program in science education and a leader of that field worldwide.
Dorit Wolenitz - Chair of ICOM NATHIST- the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History of the International Council of Museums.

Michelle Korenfeld – author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean's excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books - writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers believing in children and youth's strengths. Her stories glorify nature constructing care, confidence and achievement.