Pilar Ramos – författare

The children go on a trip to the mountains with their two monitors Colin and Cathy. While they are outdoors they learn how to identify the different shapes and sizes of the things ther see around them. The paths are long and they bend, the sun is a big circle in the sky, their tents look like small triangles when they observe them from the mountain top and even the clouds have different shapes. Maybe you have seen animal shapes and different objects flying in the sky too.

A big box arrives at David and Sarah''s home and the children soon learn that it contains Sarah''s new bed. While Mummy and Daddy are assembling the bed, the children discover a new, fun way of making their own toys and learn the importance of reusing and recycling to help protect the natural environment.

Helen likes learning new things all the time and Daddy''s friend Peter shows her that you don''t always need a laboratory to learn. All you have to do is observe the things around you and watch how they change and transform. By observing and deducing, Helen learns what happens to water when freeze it, what happens to ice when heat it and where the juice we drink comes from.

Emma wakes up early in the morning and finds that all fer friends are busy helping to prepare the street party. She hepls Daddy, Andy and Julie to make the kites and plays all the games with her friends. This way, she soon learns that comparing can be fun. To win the "Musical Chairs" game she has to run faster than all the other children and that her kite can fly higher than the rooftops and as high as her friend''s kite.

Pets are special friends. Jamie has lots of fun playing with his little dog Bobby but he knows that he has to be responsible and keep him clean, well fed and healthy. Jamie''s uncle is a vet and he tells Jamie how important it is to love and take good care of all animals, not only the domestic animals that live near people but the wild animals that live in freedom too.

Carly is drawing a picture of her doll Suzy in her red and white striped dress when she discovers that her red pencil is not in her pencil box. When she finds it, she realizes the importance of taking good care of personal belongings by keeping them clean and tidy in a safe place for when she wants to use them again.

On the way to the park, Paul wants to help Lisa but he is far too small to carry her heavy bag. In the park, they play a game, Lisa lets him touch and guess what she has in her bag. Paul dicovers that everything we use and see, not only has a name, but is different in size, shape and texture too. Lisa''s bag is big and heavy, the skipping rope is long and flexible, the branches on the trees are long and rough, they all have their own special characteristics.

It is Saturday, Carl, Danny and Anna are going to town with Mummy. They are taking a broken watch to the watchmaker, they want to look at some books in the bookshop and they want to buy some new shoes. Carl is happy because he knows that the following day, Sunday, he will be able to wear his new shoes and that on his day in town, he has learnt a lot about how we measure time in weeks, months, years and long or shorter periods of time.