This is a PLAY-filled nature guide, with open-ended activities and a fun alliteration twist, encouraging kids and families to explore and connect to the great outdoors daily throughout the summer season. Each of the 90+ pages provides a new adventure prompt for play and seek in nature and a place to capture the memories of these magical moments by drawing, writing, and creatively expressing yourself in this book. A matching daily blog by the author provides support and inspiration for your seasonal outings including stories about the super special and very curious Capkins who add charm and creativity to every opportunity taken to walk in wonder. This book is designed specifically for the months of June, July, and August with other books available to cover all the seasons. Visiting a field or forest, a meadow or mountain, a brook or your own backyard with this book you are provided the opportunity to get curious, embrace the simple gift of spending time outdoors, and to foster a daily habit of play and connection with your own true nature.
This is a PLAY-filled nature guide, with open-ended activities and a fun alliteration twist, encouraging kids and families to explore and connect to the great outdoors daily throughout the spring season. Each of the 90+ pages provides a new adventure prompt for play and seek in nature and a place to capture the memories of these magical moments by drawing, writing, and creatively expressing yourself in this book. A matching daily blog by the author provides support and inspiration for your seasonal outings including stories about the super special and very curious Capkins who add charm and creativity to every opportunity taken to walk in wonder. This book is designed specifically for the months of March, April, and May with other books available to cover all the seasons. Visiting a field or forest, a meadow or mountain, a brook or your own backyard with this book you are provided the opportunity to get curious, embrace the simple gift of spending time outdoors, and to foster a daily habit of play and connection with your own true nature.
This is a PLAY-filled nature guide, with open-ended activities and a fun alliteration twist, encouraging kids and families to explore and connect to the great outdoors daily throughout the fall season. Each of the 90+ pages provides a new adventure prompt for play and seek in nature and a place to capture the memories of these magical moments by drawing, writing, and creatively expressing yourself in this book. A matching daily blog by the author provides support and inspiration for your seasonal outings including stories about the super special and very curious Capkins who add charm and creativity to every opportunity taken to walk in wonder. This book is designed specifically for the months of September, October, and November with other books available to cover all the seasons. Visiting a field or forest, a meadow or mountain, a brook or your own backyard with this book you are provided the opportunity to get curious, embrace the simple gift of spending time outdoors, and to foster a daily habit of play and connection with your own true nature.
This is a PLAY-filled nature guide, with open-ended activities and a fun alliteration twist, encouraging kids and families to explore and connect to the great outdoors daily throughout the four seasons. Each of the 120+ pages provides a new adventure prompt for play and seek in nature and a place to capture the memories of these magical moments by drawing, writing, and creatively expressing yourself in this book. A matching daily blog by the author provides support and inspiration for your seasonal outings including stories about the super special and very curious Capkins who add charm and creativity to every opportunity to walk in wonder. This book is designed specifically as a sampler for all four seasons with other books available specific to each season: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Visiting a field or forest, meadow or mountain, babbling brook or your own backyard with this book you are provided the opportunity to get curious, embrace the simple gift of spending time outdoors, and to foster a daily habit of play and connection with your own true nature.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI CHILDREN OF MY TRAIL SCHOOL ONE summer day nearly twenty years ago a number of boys and girls appeared at my Rocky Mountain cabin. They wanted me to go with them to the old beaver colony. A boy and a girl started making the request, but before they could finish every child was asking me to go. "It is more than two miles," I told them, "and we must walk." This but added to their desire to go at once. Stepping softly and without saying a word, we slipped through the woods and peeped from behind the last trees into a grassy opening by the beaver pond, hoping for a glimpse of a coyote or a deer. Then we examined the stumps of aspens recently cut by the beavers. We walked across the dam. We made a little raft of logs and went out to the island house in the pond. Then we built tiny beaver houses and also dugouts in the bank. We played we were beavers. On the way home we turned aside from the trail to investigate a delightful bit of forested wilderness between two brooks. We were explorers in a new country. The grove was dense and full of iss underbrush. It was voted to send out a likely boy and girl to discover how many hundred miles it was through the forest. While waiting we decided to examine one of the brooks, which someone called the Amazon River. We found a delta which one boy insisted was the delta at the mouth of the Mississippi. No one objected and we had discussions concerning deltas, large and small. But the vast wilderness between our two brooks--which contained really about one acre--was reported by our two scouts as altogether too large for us ever to explore. Someone then proposed we should cross the brook on a fallen log to see who the strange people were in the wilderness on the other side. The last boy of the party...
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Provides ideas for exploring nature to learn the answers to such questions as when a chrysalis will open, why a wolf howls, or how the tide goes out, and gives advice about equipment and safety.
Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.
