In Reception, we have been noticing the autumnal changes in our outdoor spaces at school. We went on a mindfulness nature walk, where we used our senses of sight, touch, smell and hearing to explore.
The children were challenged to find as many different colours as possible whilst on our nature walk. They quickly got to work finding leaves of red, yellow, green and even purple. We found that there were the most yellow and orange leaves and the fewest purple leaves. After noticing that there were almost all the colours of the rainbow on our walk, we wondered if there was such a thing as a blue leaf! We took this brilliant question back to the classroom with us and did some research on the computer to find that blue leaves are actually real but very rare! The children decided to record this information on our leaf collection sheets with a written label.
As well as applying our knowledge of number and phonics to our leaf investigation, we also felt inspired to get creative with the leaves, mixing colours to match the autumnal tones, singing autumn songs and making music with the crunching sounds under our feet.
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