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How do you sleep? 》Reading
The secret of sleeping
● Poplar
Sleep is an indispensable physiological need of human beings, and for adults, having a good sleep can have a healthy body and mind, and children are the same. However, some children often refuse to sleep when it is time to fall asleep, which affects the normal daily routine. How to get children to go to bed on time is a headache for many parents. So if you shift your child's interest to animals and understand how animals sleep, will it give children another understanding of sleep? How do you sleep? " is such a popular science picture book related to "sleep", by depicting the different sleep characteristics of sixteen animals, it reveals the secrets of their sleep for us.
The animals depicted in picture books sleep in a variety of ways, and some animals look funny when they sleep: for example, a hedgehog will curl up into a thorn ball to sleep; When a turtle sleeps, it deliberately sticks its head or feet out of its shell; Snakes coil their bodies during hibernation to keep their body temperature constant; When elephants sleep, they stick their noses into their mouths to prevent insects such as mosquitoes and flies from flying into their bodies; The little squirrel will cover its big furry tail as a quilt and sleep beautifully.
In addition, some animals can maintain a difficult sleeping position when sleeping: for example, flamingos are used to standing on one foot and burying their heads in their wings to sleep; Bats will "hang the golden hook upside down" when sleeping, and when in danger, just loosen their paws and take off easily; Giraffes can bend their necks and use their bodies as pillows when sleeping; Owls have the ability to sleep with one eye turned a blind eye.
There are also animals that sleep in strange postures: for example, horses sleep standing up; The little goldfish sleep with their eyes open; The warship bird can actually fly and sleep at the same time, flying for two months without landing on the ground; Sea otters are afraid of being swept away by the waves and often sleep hand in hand with their companions; Koalas and sloths are sleeping kings, and they can sleep twenty hours a day holding a tree.
As the exploration deepens, the author's perspective on animals also changes. At the end of the picture book, through the cute kitten, the story is cleverly pulled from the relatively unfamiliar animal world back to the warm and familiar human family. In fact, not only do animals have strange sleeping positions, but the way humans sleep is not fixed. How do you sleep? The combination of animals and popular science knowledge that children are interested in, so that children can understand the sleeping characteristics of small animals, but also enable them to understand that the world is full of many possibilities, stimulate their curiosity and thirst for knowledge in nature, so as to explore the broader unknown world.
In the text narrative of the picture book, the author adopts the form of a second-person dialogue, which reads with both the beauty of prose poetry and the curiosity of being in the natural world and talking to animals. When parents read with their children, they can let their children take on the first-person perspective, guide them to observe, discover, or switch roles, actively carry out questions and answers, and explore with children why animals sleep in this way and trigger their thinking. In the process of reading, you can also appropriately retain suspense, when mentioning a certain animal, let the child imagine for himself what kind of sleeping habits it will have. This kind of interesting parent-child reading not only shows children a different animal world, but also a valuable experience for parents themselves.
After seeing the animals sleeping, how do our children sleep? Parent-child reading is nearing its end, let's gently accompany our children and enter a sweet dreamland, believing that tomorrow morning when we wake up, it will be another day full of vitality and enthusiasm for the world.
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