{"id":918,"date":"2009-04-19T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=918"},"modified":"2009-11-27T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T00:53:14","slug":"click-goes-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Click Goes the Camera!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Children practice their camera work with this snappy activity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">a regular or digital camera<br \/>\noak tag paper<br \/>\nglue sticks<br \/>\nnotepad and pen<br \/>\nsmall labels<br \/>\nseveral books that highlight such photographers as William Wegman, Ansel Adams, and Ann Geddes, or books of Tana Hoban&#8217;s and Ann Morris&#8217;s works<br \/>\nvariety of appropriate photographs from magazines like National Geographic, Smithsonian, or travel magazines<br \/>\nchart paper and marker<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Developing Skills:<\/strong><br \/>\nvisual perception<br \/>\naesthetic development<br \/>\nfine-motor<br \/>\ncreative thinking<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Write the question \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why do people like to take photographs?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the top of a sheet of paper.<\/strong> Encourage your child to think about why people take photographs. When does he use a camera at school? When does he take photographs at home? Record his responses.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Introduce your child to photographs from various books and magazines.<\/strong> Encourage him to describe what he sees in each photograph. Explain that someone who uses a camera is called a photographer. Explain that he will have an opportunity to be a photographer<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Discuss how photographers take pictures of different things, such as people, animals, nature, or objects.<\/strong> Give your child the option to take photographs inside or outside. Find out what your child may already know about using a camera. Provide him with any necessary additional information. Plan time to accompany your child on his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153photo shoot.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Precut oak tag paper for the mounting of photographs.<\/strong> Measure the oak tag so there will be at least a two-inch boarder around the photographs. Give your child his photographs and glue sticks. Assist him in mounting his photographs and writing names below them.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Create an exhibit of your child&#8217;s work.<\/strong> Invite other members of your family to the exhibit&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opening.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Children practice their camera work with this snappy activity \u00c2\u00a0 a regular or digital camera oak tag paper glue sticks notepad and pen small labels several books that highlight such photographers as William Wegman, Ansel Adams, and Ann Geddes, or books of Tana Hoban&#8217;s and Ann Morris&#8217;s works variety of appropriate photographs from magazines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,22,16,38,9],"tags":[281,87,320,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}