Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Craft Lesson 3

Minn and Jake

by Janet Wong

Hobbies

Resource Materials:
Wong, Janet S. Minn and Jake. Illus. Genevieve Cote. New York, NY: Frances Foster Books, 2003.

Discussion:
Hobbies are always an important part of your life growing up and when you are an adult. Some help develop the person that you become and help with friendships. By having friends with the same hobbies it helps children with vocational skills and social ability, since they are doing something that they truly love doing. On the other hand you need to have friends that have interests that are different from your own. This will help one become a diverse and well-rounded individual.

How to teach it:
One way to teach hobbies to children is first ask the class what they consider their hobby, and then help the classroom break into pairs with different hobbies. By having them work with somebody with a different hobby they will be able to learn something new from somebody that they may not have talked to or would have worked with on a project. After they have worked on the project, each pair would give a presentation on what hobbies they taught one another.

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