October,
Autumn is coming in Newton,
The yellow leaves of the Parthenocissus covered the wall,
The slightly fallen leaves are waiting to play with the children.
The right way to welcome autumn is,
Feel the nature,
Embrace the nature,
Dialogue with the nature
For the first sowing, digging and picking,
For the first design and do observation records,
First contact with the nature, exploration......
Small nature, full of vitality
Discussion
Teachers and children have a “brain storm” about the creation of natural corner before starting.
Teacher: What do you want to put in the natural corner?
Children: I'm going to put a lot of red flowers, pink flowers in it.
I want to put seeds.
I want to pick pinecones and leaves and put them in the natural corner.
I want to bring the pebbles from home and put them in the natural corner.
Teacher: How are you going to decorate our natural corner?
Children:We can make a rainbow.
We can put our photos like we did in nursery, so that we can distinguish my own plants.
We can't raise a small animal, but can we make one? I want to make a giraffe and let him protect my flowers.
We can make the natural corner look like a garden.
After the discussion, we began to take actions separately. Some children collected waste glass bottles with their parents, some brought plants that could be observed and experimented with, some made "environmental protection vase" with their parents, some drew giraffe with teachers, and finally built our natural corner.
Observation and record
Since the creation of our natural corner, the first thing children come to the campus everyday is to see whether their plants have grew, are there any plants that need watering, are there any plants that are sick... How to keep the story of us and plants? The idea of recording began to germinate in the child's mind
Teacher: What can we record in our observation book?
Children: Record changes of plants
Record what we do today
Record whether the seeds have sprouted
Date and weather also need to be recorded
Harvest and Share
On the first day after the holiday, children was surprised to find that the seeds we planted in September had sprouted, the garlic planted had grown high, and even the hydroponic onion had grown a lot of roots.
Children: Wow, teacher, I found my garlic grows very tall today
Teacher: How high is it?
Children: It's such high. I'd better show you.
Teacher: Wow, what a surprise
Children: I'm going to compare with XX. Who is the taller garlic.
Then he ran into the classroom and called his good friend. They stretched the garlic for a while,
Child a: Ours seem to be the same height
Child B: Yes, they are. Can we take it home?
Teacher: Of course. What do you want to do with it?
Child a: I want to put garlic into grandma's dish.
Child B: I don't want to. I don't like garlic.
Child C: Garlic is very nutritious. I want to put it in my mom's soup.
Stories of me and plants
Story one: Can I change colors?
Teacher: Can you guess if the vegetable will change color?
child:
1. Teacher, how can vegetables change color? They will change color after they are cooked.
2. Teacher, shall we draw on the vegetables?
Teacher: some vegetables are very smart, they can change color. Can you guess if the cabbage in our class will change color?
child:
1. Will it become the color of water?
2. Teacher, will the vegetables turn into rainbow color?
3. Teacher, we can put the vegetables in the natural corner, so that we can see whether they will change colors or not.
Story two: Special Vase Brings Unique Beauty
Teacher: We have a new classroom this semester. Now we have a big balcony. Let’s think about what we can plant here?
Guoren: Come on, here is a big flowerpot.
Xiaoxiao and Beibei: There are two flower racks here, but there are no flowers. We're going to bring some flowers.
Ruirui: I want to bring some nice flowers.
Dadi and Jiujiu: This place is empty, we can put some... And small stones!
Teacher: How do you make your flowerpots?
Peiqi: Dad and I made a boat out of a yogurt box and put in a small flag that said "ride the wind and ride the waves.".
Chengcheng: We used a washing liquid bottle to cut into a flowerpot with a handle on it.
Mangguo: Mine is a yogurt bottle, cut off the top, made into a flowerpot.
Tangyuan: I use an ice cream bucket, wipe the words off with alcohol, and then I paste my painting on it.
Lele: I use a small bowl!
Story 3: the Growth of Galsang Flower
Put some soil into the potato chips can
Observe our flower seeds and bury them in the soil
Wait for the flowers to bloom: when will they bloom?
Draw the way we take care of the flowers
Water, measure, trim our flowers
Our flower bed
Small natural corner is the most direct way for children to know the nature, and it is also an important part of educational environment. Children like the natural corner, because there is vitality there. In the experience activities of planting, observing and caring, children personally feel the process of their growth and development. This not only expands the diversity of children's activities, but also urges them to pay attention to, explore and think about nature. Children's life consciousness, growth awareness, tool use awareness and ability to record and observe have changed greatly. The purpose of creation nature corner is to continue the process. We will continue to accompany children and support them to build their own environment with their own language and representation.
The small natural corner contains too many magic secrets! Small planting, big discovery, the environment makes learning happen inadvertently, triggering more curiosity and imagination of children. Children like the natural corner, because there is vitality there. In the experience activities of planting, observing and caring, children personally feel the process of their growth and development. We believe that this is the language of children, and that is the power of learning.
In this way, the natural corners quietly grow in autumn, emerge as the times, telling interesting natural stories
The secret of Orange Tree
Child: is the orange ripe now? Are they able to be eat?
Why are some big and some small?
Why are some yellow and some green?
With the children's questions, let's look forward to the next article about Newton's natural story - Nature Course Activities.
In October, the sun is shining,
at Newton,
We want kids not only to be able to talk with people,
Talk with the environment,
They are also expected to talk with everything in the world.
Flowers, grass, trees
Every petal, every leaf,
Our kids are talking to them,
Recognizing, understanding and creating
Exploration, operation and interaction
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