My kid has recently decided he’s into meteorology. First, he just walked around with scribblings of “+5, −11” and hummed a weather forecast theme. This got boring for everybody else, so we explained to him that ‘weather’ happens in some places, and people watch it for explicit purposes of deciding some matters, not for sheer cuteness. (I don’t think he believed me on that one.)
So now we make ‘forecasts’ - several for Ukraine (first the video, then the sound, for 25 cities or for north-south-center-west-east), Earth (‘Australiaaa… thirty-six degrees… kangoroo can live’), and space in general (with fictional planets, although he ordered a Solar system, too). The upcoming one is going to be for mammoths (I’m thinking Eurasia + North America).
This lets us work on reading, writing, reciting (short messages; he doesn’t like learning poetry by heart), painting and building things from cardboard, finding places on the globe. Although my husband groans about having to edit the end product (without delay).
My kid has recently decided he’s into meteorology. First, he just walked around with scribblings of “+5, −11” and hummed a weather forecast theme. This got boring for everybody else, so we explained to him that ‘weather’ happens in some places, and people watch it for explicit purposes of deciding some matters, not for sheer cuteness. (I don’t think he believed me on that one.)
So now we make ‘forecasts’ - several for Ukraine (first the video, then the sound, for 25 cities or for north-south-center-west-east), Earth (‘Australiaaa… thirty-six degrees… kangoroo can live’), and space in general (with fictional planets, although he ordered a Solar system, too). The upcoming one is going to be for mammoths (I’m thinking Eurasia + North America).
This lets us work on reading, writing, reciting (short messages; he doesn’t like learning poetry by heart), painting and building things from cardboard, finding places on the globe. Although my husband groans about having to edit the end product (without delay).