Falling Leaves & Recycling!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been observing the change of seasons and have been tracking the development of the leaf colour changing process that is taking place. Each day, the children have been going to check on the trees in the garden with a couple of the children noticing that, after a weekend, one of the trees in the garden had suddenly started to turn orange and red. A small group of children collected the leaves that had fallen from the trees on to the floor and gathered them in to small piles to make homes for the insect toys. Whilst out exploring the nursery grounds and making note of as many different colour leaves they could find, the children came across a tree which had lots of leaves fallen. They could not wait to run through the leaves, giggling away and throwing huge handfuls up in to the air and feeling them fall down on their heads and faces. 

The children have also been learning about the importance of disposing of rubbish correctly and the affects it has on the environment and they engaged in activity to identify which items can be disposed of in a rubbish bin and which items can be recycled. A group of the children instigated their own conversation over a lunch time, and were quizzing each other on which item they think was for the recycling and which item was for the rubbish bin. Whilst engaging in a literacy activity, some of the children were able to identify letters within their names that they could find on the letter stamps with a couple of the children collecting all of the letters they could remember from their names and then sequencing them correctly to be able to spell out their whole name.