Ashley, PreK

Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska

**Moved before Spring 2019

Child-Nature Points of Interest

2018-2019

Demographic Information

*Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Ashley’s father – last paper of survey not completed)

Ethnicity: Hispanic/Latino

DOB: December, 2013

Gender: Female

Birthplace: El Paso, TX

Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (age 14), Sister (age 10), Sister (age 6)

Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 2

Parent’s feeling about place lived: 8

(1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)

House Location(s) in Fairbanks:

Inside Fairbanks City Limits

child's nature drawings

Title: Camping with Animals

Child quotes:

“Lots of birds everywhere.”

“Birds land on my mom’s truck…and they attack us!”

“I go swimming in them [rivers] with water snakes... and electrocute snakes.”

“Chena Lake Springs”

“She [Mom] said we can’t go swimming.”

“I never seen a farm.”

“My mom and grandpa’s gonna give me a horse.”

Family Feedback: Ashley’s father writes, “Last summer we went camping” with “me, my wife and her two sisters” at “Chena Hot Springs.” He writes that they camp “maybe once a year.” He also comments that besides camping, Eliana “rode a pony downtown at a fair. She goes to Tanana Lake to swim with mom and sisters.”

Class Nature Tour Video Highlights

Fall 2018

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Anxiety of “snakes in grass” (environmental misconception); Chased migratory cranes “I wanna kill them”; Anxiety that something had happened to animals depicted on sign

Child Reflections on educational activities

*Source: Transcribed Notes from Class Discussions

Fall 2018

Child Quote:

“I learn about some branch.”