With this severe, active, ongoing hurricane season, here are some ideas to make areas of the curriculum relevant to your children. There are also suggestions for managing the consequences of a catastrophic hurricane. If you are in an area that experiences other natural phenomena, just adapt these suggestions to their needs.
1. They have children express their feelings. Young people will be able to draw pictures and dictate sentences, while older children will be able to illustrate their stories. With all participants, this pull your children Shy, timid, who can not decide to take part in a verbal discussion.
2. Make a bound book of class' experiences and keep in class library. Maybe you can rent the students''for a night to share with their families.
3. If you do not have Pen Pals, why not try to find a class in another part of the country or world that has not experienced a hurricane. Your students will then become the teachers how to explain what happened.
4. Instead of writing, your class could make a cassette or videotape. If the sending of Pen Pals, be sure to check the privacy policies at your school.
5. Use the experiences of children to be educated adjectives, adverbs, similes and onomatopoeia.
6. Answer who, what, where, when, why and how you write as the opening paragraph of a story. Foul on overhead and obtain input from class members.
7. This would be a good time to teach the specificity and the Voice Writing Trait. Compare these two stories and say that is more specific and exciting a. Yesterday, a hurricane came to my town and caused a lot of damage. I was afraid because he was strong and the water was high. b. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as a roaring lion. I felt terrified as I heard the howling wind and crashing surf, but I was petrified when the water kept rising and I had to go through my roof to be sure. When I arrived there, all I could see was water, water everywhere and the roofs of houses.
8. Have a unit on the five senses Hurricane ___. Can you smell the sweat? Feeling hot and sticky? Have each child make his own booklet.
9. Reinforce map skills as they track a hurricane. What better way to relate the latitude and longitude?! Get to know these terms for your city. Looking at the map key, older children will be able to estimate how a hurricane is far from a specific place.
10. Main causes of hurricanes. Make a list of the strongest ever recorded and include their data. This will strengthen the research capacity and graph-making.
11. Tally How many hurricanes have occurred each year since 1960. Circle the major ones. Is there a reason?
12. Teachers and parents, so, you must remember that there may be extreme anxiety during a lightning storm. If the power is still, try to stay close to a person who has lived a horrible test. Give a pat on the shoulder or a hug, along with a reassuring word. On the other hand, if the power goes out, even a flashlight at hand and play with it (follow the direction of light reflectors and have a child recite a poem, sing a song, or run an old fool). They all children holding hands to know that they are not alone. If children are old enough, take lessons in the course, without reading, much can be done orally! Do everything possible to allay the fears of children.
I hope these ideas are useful and have inspired your creative thinking.
And remember ... Reading is fundamental!
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