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Doing arts and crafts is a fun way to teach children the basics of painting, drawing and creating. All five senses are utilized during craft-like activities no matter the age group. Here are just a few ideas for anyone who has the desire to work with children. The following crafts projects can be used at home or in school settings. The crafts included here are meant for pre-school age children.
1) Fun Frames
Materials needed: scissors, glue, craft foam, googly eyes, stick on Velcro, puffy paint and sunglasses
Instructions: draw small animals onto craft foam and cut the shapes out with scissors. Shapes like turtles, seahorses, and fish are good. Glue on googly eyes and use puffy paint to add decoration. Once the paint dries, use stick on Velcro to fasten the animal shapes on the sunglasses. The children can pick their own frames to wear. This craft project teaches creativity and fine motor skills. Learning to use scissors at the pre-school age takes time. Also, the children learn how to work together and respect one another in choosing their own theme for the sunglasses. Drawing is also required for this project.
2) Flower Fairies.
Another craft project that is good for age 3 and up. Children at this age will need extra help gathering materials. They will need nature objects, card stock, crayons and glue. Objects found in nature could be leaves and flowers and small twigs.
First the children can be taken on a nature walk, lasting about 20 minutes. Help them put their collectibles into a small brown bag or plastic baggie. When everyone is back inside, make sure the children have a bathroom break. Then let each child draw pictures of themselves or just figures on the card stock. Using the glue they can place the nature objects onto the figures for dresses, hair, magic wands or fairy wings. The importance of this activity is to let the children be creative and choose the way they want their picture to look. This project teaches children about nature, art and drawing. Critical thinking skills also come into play. The child decides how to place the objects onto the figure and this requires analysis.
3) Diggin' Up Treasure
Materials needed: 20 or so small rocks, wax paper, 1 teaspoon of silver and gold acrylic paint. Other acrylic collared paints are also okay. One large sandbox.
Instructions: Divide rocks. Place some rocks into a sealable container. Add one teaspoon of silver acrylic paint. Shake until the rocks are coated. Place the coated rocks on wax paper. Rinse container and repeat this process with the gold paint. Make sure each batch is completely coloured. Use as many rocks as you want and as many colours too. After the rocks have dried completely, bury them in the sandbox. Send the children with plastic shovels and sifters to hunt for the buried treasure. This project teaches children their colours, counting and creativity. Almost all kids love to pretend at anything. Pretending to be pirates looking for buried treasure could keep a group of children busy all day.
Arts and crafts help pre-school children learn basic skills like drawing, painting, counting and learning colours. Craft projects also teach children fine motor skills, science and critical thinking. Important lessons learned from doing arts and crafts are team work and getting along with peers. Teaching arts and crafts to young children is very valuable.
Jenny Talorman is an amateur writer who enjoys learning and educating people on a range of topics including; childrens toys and games, (including children's crafts) children's issues and baking. If you have any feedback on this article please feel free to get in touch.
The Benefits of Learning Japanese in Japan
There are many significant benefits of learning Japanese in Japan as opposed to learning in your own country. One major block to learning Japanese quickly in the USA or the UK for example, is a lack of others wanting to learn as you do. French and German classes are generally well attended, as are Italian and Spanish, but not generally Japanese unless you live in an area with a high enough population to get a good class together.
Another problem with learning Japanese is that it is a category III language, which means that it is difficult for people with English as their native language to learn. It differs from English in many ways, such as the verb in a sentence appearing at the very end, so that the meaning of the passage is difficult understand until it has been completed. The language can be written in three different ways, each of which has to be learned. Particles (not, to, do) follow nouns.
All of these deviations from the English language render learning Japanese difficult, which is a major reason for choosing to learn it in Japan. Not only that, but Japanese take about twice the number of words to say something as English does, so you have to speak more of it to pass the same message. If you take all of these reasons together then, more than any other, Japanese is best learned in its country of origin.
Most people learning the language are not doing so as a hobby, but for business or professional reasons. It is therefore to the benefit of their employer to enable them to learn in the best and fastest possible way by learning to speak Japanese in Tokyo, Sapporo or Kyoto. To reinforce this point, it takes a good student around 80 - 90 weeks of tuition to learn to speak and write the language to an advanced standard. The advantages of learning Japanese in Japan should now be evident.
When you learn a language in its own country you learn not just the mechanics of that language, but its passion and the little things that make it what it is. In Japan, you will also learn the culture of the country, its art, history and geography, and also about regional dialects. This is an extremely important aspect of understanding a language as opposed to just simply being able to translate it or read it.
You will learn how to speak fluent Japanese using a Japanese accent, and receive an introduction to the various dialects of this island nation. There is little point in learning how to speak Japanese for your employer, and then being unable to understand the distinctive Osaka accent. By living with Japanese people and talking them 24/7 you will gain an understanding of the language not possible in your own country.
Children learn by listening to their parents and siblings speak, and by being surrounded by Japanese speakers during your stay in Japan you will learn in a more permanent way than if you learned in college. You would not be learning massive lists of vocabulary, but by hearing the sounds day in day out and understanding their meaning so that you can easily learn them.
Visit Japanese restaurants and order your own food in Japanese. Shop in Japanese stores and order your own items, purchase and read Japanese newspapers and magazines and immerse yourself in the language and the culture of the country. You will be taught functional Japanese, and be able to live in the country yourself, independently of anyone to help you with the language.
Japanese is one of the world's major languages, right up there with Mandarin, English Spanish and French. It is becoming increasingly important for importing and exporting businesses to employ Japanese speakers, and the Japanese respect Westerners that have taken the time to learn their language - particularly if they have learned it properly. Learning Japanese in Japan is therefore the best and quickest way to learn the language, and you will learn how to speak Japanese just as the Japanese speak it. Understanding a language and the culture that gave rise to it is a very important part of learning to speak it and write it. In fact, it is a very difficult language to learn how to write, and by doing so in Japan you will give yourself a much better chance of doing it properly than if you went to some day or night class back home.
Don't sell yourself short, and don't sell your employees short, because this is one difficult language to learn under the best of circumstances, and learning Japanese in Japan will give you or your employees a marvelous opportunity to learn to speak like a resident of Japan - which, after all, is what you would be for a while.
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Are there any childrens programs that are good for learning Japanese?
We had baby first TV for a couple of days and there was a program that taught spanish and that was really working. I'm trying to learn Japanese now & haven't been doing too lousy but I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas. Thanks.
Now you're just being silly. I'm serious!!!!
there are lots of tv program in japan too.
one of my friend said
'sazaesan' japanese anime is best
stories are just ordinaly family things.
no violent word / action...
but its kinda advanced level
how about nhk kids program?
my kids watched when they were baby, too.
http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=kid
http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/
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