Raising Creative Thinkers Series: Butterflies, Bees and ants: Igniting Curiosity in Children's Hearts and Minds

Discover the world of tiny creatures to ignite a butterfly effect, inspiriting children about science without them even noticing. Motivate kids to learn science respecting the living world to cast light on nature’s secrets toward human advancement.Think small to be inspired greatly with this delightful synergy of art, literature and science. There's a lot to learn from insects: community organization, responsibility for siblings, and creative ways to communicate. Reading this fun educational STEAM book for kids, the children become mature brothers and sisters with Cute and Cuter, two caterpillars that argue all day and all night. They are inspired with the butterfly life cycle. The kids discover all the tasks of the hive with Honey, who is eager to become a forager bee wandering the fields. They enjoy an ant poem. They make friends with being a child - there's time to grow and there's time to glow. Share interesting facts about the rainbow with the kids. What color of the spectrum is visible to the bee, but not to us people? Enlighten the children about the primary colors of light. Are red, green and blue the primary colors? Where did yellow go? Invite students to imagine and draw the rainbow as the butterfly sees it, and to set on a journey with an ant friend preparing for winter. Together you’ll fall in love with the magic little souls can light up.The young readers become coauthors and co-illustrators in Raising Creative Thinkers Series: Butterflies, Bees and Ants, celebrating their creativity. Inspired by the poems, paintings and interesting facts about nature, they write and draw their own ideas. They create one-of-a-kind books, reflecting their child genius. They bond with the animal world, while expressing their inner voice. 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. Michelle offers the 5 E's strategy: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate and Express. Using the 5 E's as a success routine, people find creative problem solving accessible and simple.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. This unit is a pioneer program in science education and a leader of the field worldwide. Raising Creative Thinkers’ tools are based on Michelle’s 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 believes much of children's anxiety derives from stifled creativity, and hopes her books help direct toward fulfillment of individual creative potentials. Michelle's original tools are based on her life research and on raising her daughters, who were students at Dr. Erica Landau’s Institute. Already teenagers, they still teach her creative thinking lessons every day, making life fun and exciting.

Michelle Korenfeld is a lifelong creativity educator, workshop facilitator, poet, author, and painter. On her blog Raising Creative Thinkers she offers parents, grandparents, teachers and educators help with making education more creative. Visit her blog to learn more about the 5 E's: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate and Express. Michelle's original books are based on her life research and raising her own two daughters. They are already teenagers, but still teach her creative thinking lessons every day. Michelle believes much of children's aggression derives from stifled creativity. Use this book to bond with the children and to inspire their creative minds and souls.