There are many changes that are happening outside! Can you tell? Between the cooler air moving in, to the crisp smell of fresh apples and leaves changing colors; fall is definitely here! This is my favorite season with young children! The children’s inquiry into their visual observations of outside is extraordinary!
Friday we took the children out in small groups of 10 to observe one of the trees on campus. The leaves are absolutely beautiful! At the top they are already red, in the middle they are a firey orange/red color, and the bottom still has green leaves that are beginning to change around their edges! It was such a perfect crisp fall day to observe this tree! We began to examine that parts of a tree; discussing the roots, trunk, branches, and leaves. We compared and contrasted different leaves from different trees. Once the children had time to process our tree of study and were able to explore the area around the tree, we asked them to sit down back from the tree to observe it. Giving them four crayons, we then asked them to draw what they saw.
Enjoy their amazing illustrations of what they saw…
Preschool in the City with Mrs. Gabelman 