Bruce Tuckman introduced and identified the five stages of a team development. These steps are the forming stage, storming the stage, norming stage, performing stage, and adjourning stage in that chronological order. Furthermore, these steps usually apply universally to all teams/groups regardless of the team members’ demographics, purpose, location, goals, and cultures. In the forming stage, the team is just starting to come together and is characterized by anxiety and uncertainty. In storming, the group is characterized by considerable opposition and conflict. In the norming stage, the group's activities become a unified component. In the performing stage, there is usually high productivity, and the members are supportive, competent, supportive, and loyal. In the adjourning stage, the group needs to have fulfilled its goals; the group is to be closed on a positive note, but members usually feel uncertain and insecure about the future. The adjourning phase is characteristic...
The Hungry Caterpillar is one of my favorite books for children because it has a variety of characteristics. It teaches counting, it's colorful, teaches children what happens if you eat to much, and lastly it teaches children about the transformation of how a Caterpillar turns into Butterfly.
Eric Carle books are some of my favorites as well. I use them often with my infant group. Actually for their last years Christmas gift, I gave copies of this book and made them a Caterpillar poster that had Velcro dots on it and then I made Velcro pieces that had all the foods from the book on them, so as the parent read the book to the child, the child could "feed" the caterpillar (and as they aged they could use it for math by counting, grouping, working on sequential order, etc...) I love when books can be used for more than just literacy.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. I chose this book also, I love Eric Carl collection of books. You can do a lot of activities out of his books. He has some other good ones such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear ect.
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ReplyDeleteI love the book Brown Bear also and my children love to hear it over and over and do the dance with it too
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