Throughout our science sessions the actions of experimenting, researching and documenting acquire special relevance as they enable us to generate hypotheses. The immersion in this beautiful contexts encourages our curiosity and desire to be amazed, and by extension, helps us to interpret the world. It also provokes child’s interest in the project we are absorbed in this first term, «You, me and the others».
This project, as you all already know, merges all curricular areas and arises from the need to know and find oneself, to make oneself known to the others, to know the classmates and our social context. That is why, as a follow up to one of the trips we made to the botanical garden, we questioned ourselves how our school garden would be like; its trees, plants, elements that we can find… So, we decided to take a brief trip throughout Gençana’s forest, in order to generalize and relate what we have learned about our environment from other contexts.
During the exploration we were observing and collecting leaves, branches, flowers and fruits from different trees and plants that caught our attention and then, in the classroom, through other means such as magnifying glasses and the light table, we were able to observe that the tree leaves have nerves inside that are difficult to see with the naked eye.
Once our observation and manipulation tasks were finished, we classified all the leaves we had collected according to their origin and we made a recopilation of our favourite trees. Then, we carried out some art work. This collection consisted on choosing the Pine tree, the Carob tree, the Mimosa, the Bougainvillea, the Eucalyptus and the Acacia.
In our proposals we used different drawing techniques to test which results we liked the best. We had fun capturing the essence of the plants with the use of watercolor technique and the frottage method. And this was the result:
PINE TREE:
CAROB TREE:
MIMOSA:
BOUGAINVILLEA:
EUCALYPTUS:
ACACIA :
Alumnos/as de 4 años.