社交技巧和團隊的凝聚力 – 我們平常不太在意這個，但一起玩遊戲意味著社交互動。透過遊戲幫助孩子提高自我意識和他人意識、自我調節、解決衝突、培養積極的關係、做出積極的決定並培養同理心和同情心。遊戲呈現寶貴的教學時刻，除了玩得開心之外，最後的互相討論使學習體驗更深入。

Jill is the program director assistant at Little Parrot Farm. She has assisted many teachers in the past summer programs including arts, crafts, food warrior and junior farmer classes. She is great with kids. Children love to be around Teacher Jill. We think of her as our homeroom mom!

中國書法——你知道漢字是象形文字嗎？孩子們將學習中文單詞背後的故事以及這些字是如何演變的。事實上，中國書法很像繪畫！了解不同類型的書法及其歷史。孩子們將模仿過去偉大的書法家的作品，為自己創造精彩的藝術。孩子們還將學習一些與自然和動物有關的漢字！

Franz and Krissy are a caring and positive couple who worked with young children for 20 years and ran a successful afterschool tutoring program in Taiwan. Franz graduated from Eastern Michigan University and Krissy got her college degree in Taiwan. They look forward to joining the Little Parrot Farm’s summer teachers to have fun with the children!

我們每天是否有個靜下來的時間，回想當天的事情？在這個英文日記課程，孩子們可以思考觀察他們如何互動和感受。透過一些話題或假設性問題，例如，一個“微笑”的主題；假設性問題，例如：當你遇到他們時，你總是對他們微笑嗎？當一個陌生人對你微笑時，你是什麼感覺？你有沒有對著鏡子裡的自己微笑？從回答問題開始將有助於啟動思考過程，並幫助孩子發展與自己溝通的技能，在他們自己的反思中進行對話。日記將培養對自己和他人的更多意識和敏感性，並增強心靈的幸福感！

Franz and Krissy are a caring and positive couple who worked with young children for 20 years and ran a successful afterschool tutoring program in Taiwan. Franz graduated from Eastern Michigan University and Krissy got her college degree in Taiwan. They look forward to joining the Little Parrot Farm’s summer teachers to have fun with the children!

積累知識以做出更健康的選擇

你真的知道你的餐盤裡有什麼嗎？有許多標籤和包裝食品，我們很難知道吃的東西是否真的健康。透由課堂活動和食物探索，學習食物的營養知識，以打造更健康的身體。課程將介紹更健康的食品、產品和食譜，以使學生能夠做出對環境好也對身體好的選擇。每節課都用“綠色廚房”時間讓學生觀看烹飪示範——了解使用的食材和品嚐及學習健康、營養理念。我們將實際製作全麥香蒜醬、巧克力餅乾、藍莓豆腐蛋糕、莓果果醬、奇亞籽優格等。

Heather graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016, majored in Interdisciplinary Studies with emphasis in Public Health, Education and Food Policy. She has a passion in food education and urban agriculture, and believes that nature is the best classroom for kids to learn, at a young age, to become better steward of our planet.

Rachel 老師的美術課一直都是豐富多彩、有趣、自由，和很多表達樂趣！今年，Rachel 為我們帶來 World Tour 藝術課！將世界旅行、自然主題與藝術實驗相結合，以發展自我表達。去土耳其畫他們的鬱金香節、哥斯大黎加的異國動物、阿爾巴尼亞的海洋色彩、摩洛哥的沙漠和綠洲、阿姆斯特丹的梵谷風格景觀、印度尼西亞的皮影戲等等！

藝術課程介紹：
* 如何使用基本藝術材料（蠟筆、油畫棒、彩色鉛筆和紙拼貼）製作視覺效果
* 發展視覺思維技能：觀察和解釋
* 以創造性思維和表達方式發展自己的風格

Rachel　在加利福尼亞藝術學院攻讀了MFA課程，及擁有芝加哥藝術學院的學士學位。當代藝術家 Rachel Rong 老師創立了獨特的藝術教育理念，將主動研究、藝術實驗和自我表達的精神與兒童的認知發展過程結合，建立人們與藝術的親密關係，提高人們的審美能力和圖像溝通技巧。她相信，藝術和吃飯一樣，應該是伴隨每個人一生的不可缺少的部分。Rachel 希望帶給大家的藝術饗宴是世界性的、多元的、先進的審美觀，以及有獨特的創作魅力！

Cherry 擁有芭蕾舞、K-Pop、Hip-Hop 和中國傳統舞蹈的背景。過去幾年，她經常教導K-Pop，非常受小朋友們的歡迎！如果孩子們在營隊待上幾星期，就能夠將所學到的特色，與父母分享。孩子們一定會喜歡K-pop舞蹈樂趣和Cherry熱情專業的指導!

Cherry 是位有多年教導孩童舞蹈經驗的專業舞者。畢業於 Citrus College, 主修Dance AA，並獲得 Commercial dance 證書. 教舞經驗豐富：
2017　韓國K-pop 舞團擔任舞蹈編排以及指導
2018-2020 M.A.D. dance studio 擔任K-pop 老師
2021　Star Factory 舞蹈指導 編舞 小孩培訓
一對一私教課程，針對每個學生的身體情況進行舞蹈指導

與誰說學中文一定很無聊？通過遊戲和短劇創造性地學習中文！遊戲將共同提高單詞的回憶和記憶。孩子們將學習為分配的小品的不同角色形成​​有意義的句子。邊學習邊玩！

Grace graduated with a degree in Marketing from California State University, Los Angeles. She is a business owner who makes semi-precious stone jewelries. Grace has had experiences teaching children in afterschool programs previously. She has a unique and creative way of teaching young children. You can’t help but to pay attention to her. Her vibrant personality and a heart with compassion leads her to work with high school students in a nonprofit that provides food for the homeless. She is exicited to join Little Parrot Farm this year to teach Chinese in a non-traditional style.

與大自然一起種植蔬菜！認識植物結構、生長因素及有助農場生態系統的昆蟲朋友們。與同學們一起設計和維護可食用的花園。通過實踐“綠色”農業，成為一位回饋自然和大地的小農夫。每個單元兩週，期待每個單元帶個作品回家喔！

快樂小農夫課程主題包括：

地球母親如何提供食物？
設計自己的小菜園～
小兵立大功
忙碌的傳粉者

Mandy received a B.S.in Molecular biology, UCSD,1998, a Ph.D in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCD, 2010, and has been a lecturer at Cal State LA since 2016. She enjoys working  and teaching with plants and animals.

Rosa received a B.S.in Mathematics Applied Sciences & Economics, UCLA, 1992, a M.S.in Nutritional Sciences, Cal State Los Angeles, 2001, and has been a Registered Dietitian since 2001. She feels passionate about nature education for the next generation and restoring the relationship between man and nature.

“社會、情感和道德 (SEE) 學習是Emory 大學開發的創新 K-12 教育計劃。SEE Learning™ 代表了最先進的教育，包括：
注意力訓練
同情心和道德辨別力
系統思維
復原力和創傷知情實踐”
資料來自：
“Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning is an innovative K-12 education program developed by Emory University.
SEE Learning™ provides educators with the tools they need to foster the development of emotional, social, and ethical intelligence for students and themselves.
SEE Learning™ represents the state of the art in education by enhancing SEL programming with key additional components, including:
attention training
compassion and ethical discernment
systems thinking
resilience and trauma-informed practice”
https://seelearning.emory.edu/node/5

Dabby has always been enthusiastic in learning and helping others. After a long period of volunteering for nonprofits, she founded Beauty of Sharing in 2012. It is a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental education at an early age. http://beautyofsharing.org/
Beginning in 2015, she began an experimental environmental education program for five grade levels with C.J. Morris school of the Walnut Unified Valley School District. Little Parrot Farm joined hands with the nonprofit last year to take a portion of this project to the district level to include all 9 schools in the district. We are so happy that Dabby will be joining us to implement a new area of our summer program, the Social, Emotional, Ethical (SEE) Learning curriculum from Emory College.