Nature, Insects & Wriggly Worms!

Over the last couple of weeks, the pre school children have taken a very keen interest in anything that involves bugs, insects and their natural habitats. The children have been eagerly waiting for the cocoons to become butterflies. Day by day, the children have been coming in to pre-school and checking on them. They are clearly settled in their cocoons right now.

Whilst in the garden and on the nursery grounds, the children have been using magnifying glasses and special insect containers to collect and take care of the insects. In the garden, Luna, James and Jaxx had found several worms in our growing patch and bravely picked them up, Luna told her friends, “Be careful guys, they are very delicate”. Once they placed them in their special pots, Harry collected some leaves that had fallen from the trees and lay them down next to the worm pots and suggested to his friends, “Maybe we can use them as a bed for the worms so they can have a sleep”. This made his friends laugh and Rowan told him, but worms can’t sleep while it’s too light outside in the garden”. The following day, the children were so excited to see that the worms had made themselves comfortable in the pots and were fascinated and very caring when we moved them over in to a worm house full of compost, leaves, banana peels and apple cores.

On the nursery grounds, the children have been going on lots of walks to also explore nature. Alba, Zoe and Finley were collecting worms on the mounds of mud and had carefully held them in their hands all the way back to nursery to place them in the worm house.