Autumn is in the air!

We have begun our new Unit of Inquiry: 

Changing Seasons. 

Central Idea: 

The changing of the seasons affects our lives and the world around us

Lines of Inquiry:

Earth Cycles

Seasonal changes we can observe      

How we respond to the changing seasons

During the first week of exploring the new Unit, we have been observing the changes happening outside but also how the weather and temperature is changing as well. We introduced the " Weather Watch" symbol where the children stand to look out the window and tell the class what the weather is like that day. The children then draw what they see on a weekly ongoing weather chart, giving us the opportunity to observe how the weather is changing.

" c'è la pioggia, il sole e la nuvola!"

Language Arts

Ms Kathryn Ramsay came in to sing some songs with Nursery before Nap time, bringing with her, her ' Song Bag'. After seeing the children's excitement and fun, we decided to make our own ' Song Bag' to use daily! Thank you Ms Kathryn

Letters are everywhere and they make words!
'S' is for ' Song' 

Shall we see what's inside?? 

Enriching language with props and song
' 1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive'

'Hickory Dickory Dock the mouse
ran UP the clock!'

Maths/ Science

Using different materials that have been brought into school, the children are able to sort, count and make patterns! The nursery children have become quite the scientists! Using magnifying glasses they are exploring the many different things Autumn brings! 

Special Projects:

To start our new Unit off with something fun, we made a nice, warm Vegetable Soup. Thank you to everyone who contributed. It was wonderful to see the children chopping, smelling and even tasting as we prepared the veggies. Next time you come to school, take a peek at our photo board in the reading corner to see all the pictures from this enriching experience! 

Chop, chop, chop! 

What's inside the pumpkin?

Tasting our Vegetable Soup!

Our photo board of this project!

We worked together and created a big tree for our new role play area! We looked at books to give us ideas what happens to trees and leaves in the Autumn months. We noticed that the leaves are no longer GREEN, but are turning different colors; RED, YELLOW, BROWN and ORANGE!

Part 2: Nursery settles at school!

                              Nursery's First Month at School

       

The Nursery children (and teachers!) are now into the  school routine.  Circle times are important and having two smaller circles helps each child be more attentive and have their say in conversations. We asked in circle ‘Why do we come to school?’   The replies are posted in the corridor by Nursery.  See HOME CONNECTIONS for a song we sing each day to start out the circles.  Children are helping each other in little, important ways – moving over to make room on the carpet, putting away toys together.  Nursery is on their way to being a caring community.

                                                                                 

    

                                              Language  Arts     

The children ask questions and teachers ask questions.   Some of the questions asked by children are:’ Where is Ms. Luana?’  ‘Where are you going?‘  and ‘Voglio capire se quella macchina ti porta a scuola o ti porta a casa?’  We teachers are asking the children what they like about school or if there is anything that they don’t like.  A popular book this week in Nursery is  ‘There’s a dragon at my School” .

                                                                                            

AND there is now another a NEW book  published by the Nursery class: 
“My Nursery Friends” which is being sent home with a different child each day.

      Besides drawing the children are VERY concentrated on  cutting skills.

    

                                 

                                                 Maths

 As the children stick buttons on the outline of a number symbol (see photograph), they begin to count and share their number knowledge 'one, two, three, four’ 

'number 2'   'questo e’ one, questo e’ two, three, four’.  

And the numbers get BIGGER and BIGGER as the children are measured on a height chart. The children have been measured now, and then again we will see how much they have grown at the end of the school year.