Teach Kids About Healthy Shoe Habits. The Elves And The Shoe Maker The Elves And The Shoe Maker Email: [email protected]This book is dedicated to the innocence in little children. This book is dedicated to all parents and teachers to understand that every song, every story, every interaction with children can have a lasting effect on their life values, so we need to be careful and rework certain traditional forms that we are using in our kindergartens, afterall it takes a village to raise a child. Vision by - Dr. Pavan Podar Very few stories are completely healthy for kids, some adaptations or changes do need to be made especially when young kids with growing minds are to be exposed to the stories. ‘The Elves And The Shoe Maker’ is one such story that requires very little changes or adaptations, as it is overall very healthy for little kids. Of course kids should be able to understand the concept of emotions and poverty before being exposed to the story, so ideal for age 5 onwards. Since there were no adaptations required we thought of linking the story to the concept of shoe and shoe safety for kids. Read this beautifully illustrated version of ‘The Elves And The Shoemaker Teach About Healthy Shoe Habits’. This version is an attempt ‘by’ children, ‘for’ the children and ‘of’ the children as part of project ‘AVISHKAR - Creativity and Change in Childhood’ at Podar Jumbo Kids Plus. Enjoy this lovely reader story book, written by the kids, illustrated by the kids to make this world a better place for you, me and the entire human race…………. Swati Popat Vats-Director. CURRICULUM AND CONTENT DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD
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Children using shoes are harmful (Prof. Manohar Raelkar)Human feet has a natural curve because of the inner bone structure has a curve.
This curve is very important for balancing the human body. More than that also the jerks
we get from bumpy roads as well as jumping from the heights, these curves helps as a
shock absorbers for the human body.
But those having less curve or no curve are called flat foot. These people can't take jerks
on their waist (like bullock carts). In their old age they get more back pains as these kind
of jerks can affect their joint pains and their muscles become weak.
School authorities, parents, educational department, and government should be made
aware about the research happening on this issue and stop harming the children. People
believe that leather shoes gives support to the curve for the feet.
Researchers who are researching on foot related problems do not believe this and they
have challenged this. Dr. William Rossi in his thesis “Why Shoes Make Normal Gait
Impossible” has said that these shoes affects the normal growth of children.
Children who have started wearing shoes before 6 yrs of age have more foot problems
and their ratio is high.
Researchers have concluded that from childhood if children wear shoes the growth of
their foot gets affected.
So it is said that children should play without foot wear or wear sandals in which their
toes are seen so the growth of their foot does not get affected and brings less harm to
their growth.
Here is something to think about
At Podar Preschools we tell parents not to make kids wear shoes (and socks), instead make them wear open sandals, and in winter open sandals with socks .
When you go to buy shoes/footwear for your child, always fit both feet and
check. As sometimes the sizes on both feet can differ.
Never check the fit when your child is sitting, let your child wear the
shoe/footwear and then stand and walk around.
While your toddler is wearing the shoes/footwear check the toes, press on the
front of the shoe and check if there is room for the toes. This is a sign of a
comfortable shoe.
Also some kids tend to curl their toes while trying on new shoes, so check to see
if child has curled toes, Rubbing your hand along your toddler's calf will help
relax leg muscles and uncurl toes.
When the shoe fits…
Tips for shoe selection-
Rework Level 3
‘Change and Creativity’
to Create
Elves AndThe Shoe Maker
Elves AndThe Shoe Maker
Notice the ‘Documentation’ in the drawings.
You will notice that all the children’s drawings have comments written by the teacher. This is called ‘documentation’; a practice adopted by us from Reggio schools where a teacher asks the child about the drawings and then writes down all points that were mentioned by the child.
There was once a shoemaker, who was very hard working and very honest, but still he could not earn enough to live.
All he had in the world was gone, what was left was just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.Then he cut his leather out, and decided to make them the next morning.
In the morning when he sat to work, he was surprised. Guess what was it? There stood the shoes, all readymade, upon the table. The shoemaker didn't know what was happening.
He looked at the shoes and there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat, that it was quite a masterpiece.
The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he was willingly to pay the shoemaker double the price. In the evening he cut out the work for two shoe pair, and went to bed early, but when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand. Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more. He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.
One evening, about Christmas-time, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her, 'I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that we may see who it is that comes and does my work for me.' The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen.
As soon as it was midnight, there came in four little naked elves; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all surprised, and could not take his eyes off them. And on they went, till the job was quite done, and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table. This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning.
The next day the wife said to the shoemaker. “These little elves have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can. I am quite sorry to see them run about as they do; and indeed it is not very decent, for they have nothing upon their backs to keep off the cold. I'll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and you make each of them a little pair of shoes”.
The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.
About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted. Then they dressed themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced and capered and sprang about, as merry as could be; till at last they danced out at the door, and away over the green.
The good couple saw them no more; but everything went well with them from that time forward, as long as they lived.