This week we celebrated Environment Week in Acorns, by including both World Forest Day and World Water Day! From now on, we will focus very much on nature, the environment and its effect on people and vice versa. This focus will include the Green Fair on 12th April when you will be able to join your child for “green” activities in our garden!
Baby Acorns began their week by playing ‘Bug on the rug’, investigating twigs, flowers, petals and leaves and playing in their rainbow sensory tray. Throughout the week the children explored different natural resources. When learning about forests, they discussed what kind of animals can be found there and pretended to go “walking through the forest”, as well as making their own forest collage!
Shiny Stars found out how they can look after the environment by making sure they put rubbish in the bin, they read the story Michael Recycle about a super hero who helps a town to clean up and they sang “We’ve got the whole world in our hands”. They also learnt about the importance of water and investigated how different objects float or sink in water. In creative they made a puffy paint earth collage and re-used paper to make a forest, after which they had a wonderful time outside, in nature.
Rainbows listened to the song “What a Wonderful World” and discussed the lyrics – what makes the world wonderful? They used the Beebot (floor robot) to travel around the globe and found out about different types of environment: desert, polar, cities and rainforest.
Early Explorers learnt what the word “environment” means, they discussed what kinds of places they like and how our feelings about our surroundings are influenced by what we see, hear and think. They read the information book “Seed to Plant” as they learnt about the different parts of a plant, why plants and trees are so important and how seeds grow and they discussed the needs of all living things; they will plant their own beans which they will look after and watch them grow over the next weeks.
