We put the names of things that are not or rarely seen in Cambodia, for example pyramid and whale, in the word deck for the creative sentence game so that it would be an opportunity for children to learn about new things. Especially in this area, even adults don't often have an opportunity to go outside the island, so it can be said that the younger the children, the less information they receive on a daily basis.
As for the jellyfish, although the children did not know its name, they seemed to know what it was. It seems they don’t know pyramid for they drew green mountains. A whale was drawn as a big fish, and we can see that they don’t know it, either.
For these children living in the great nature, I think it would be fun to know many names of insects regardless it'll be useful or useless in the future. Small children usually have a wonderful memory to memorize things they are interested in, such as flowers, fish, and station names. I think that curiosity is an important driver of children's desire to know more and learn more.
One challenge is that they cannot easily know/ look up such names when they come across some unknown plants or insects. There is no library in the area, and it is unlikely that each household would have purchased and kept such books. If there are pictorial books or data sources available that explain about living things around them, their curiosity must grow even more.
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