Once again we adults were reminded of the power of using the
outdoors as our classroom. The children have an incredible capacity to notice
the small details in the world around us and share their sense of wonder with
us. They are constantly making sense of the world around them through
observing, listening, feeling, experimenting, hypothesising and learning with
others. The world is especially magnificent through the eyes of the child.
Thank you to Wendy, Julie, Libby, Carolyn and Kirsty for
coming along. Thank you also to Su for lending us a book about the native
plants of the Merri, which we took along with us and are using in our
inquiry into survival.
Wendy, a child’s grandmother, was a special guest who
came along to help us learn about birds, insects and plants. She knows whether
or not they are natives or introduced.
Once again we adults were reminded of the power of using the
outdoors as our classroom. The children have an incredible capacity to notice
the small details in the world around us and share their sense of wonder with
us. They are constantly making sense of the world around them through
observing, listening, feeling, experimenting, hypothesising and learning with
others. The world is especially magnificent through the eyes of the child.
Thank you to Wendy, Julie, Libby, Carolyn and Kirsty for
coming along today. Thank you also to Su for lending us a book about the native
plants of the Merri, which we took along with us today and are using in our
inquiry into survival.
Wendy, a child’s grandmother, was a special guest today who
came along to help us learn about birds, insects and plants. She knows whether
or not they are natives or introduced.
Some children then found what Wendy had been talking about!
Look! We found Bug City on a Gum Tree!!!
The tree was full of literacy hundreds of the soldier beetles crawling over the flowers eating the nectar. Each time the branch was moved, they stopped still.
Children found a large branch and they investigated which tree it had come from and hypothesised as to how it fell.
– The magnifying glass
makes fire and when we dropped it on the ground maybe it started a fire and
made the tree fell down.
– That means it would
have made the whole tree fall down so that’s definitely not right.
– Maybe the wind blew
it down.
– Maybe it was too
heavy.
(back at school) – I think lightning struck it and then it
fell.
Another child was fascinated by these two bits of wood,
which he thought were rocks.
One is really soft and
the other one is hard.
Another child was fascinated by these two bits of wood,
which he thought were rocks.
One is really soft and
the other one is hard.
One child found a pinecone, even though there were no pine trees around! He was curious as to why half of it was broken.
- Maybe it broke when it fell down.
Another child joined in the conversation.
- Maybe an animal ate it. I saw an animal eating a pinecone on a documentary.
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| Imaginative play |
Apologies for the delay in posting this update.
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