Flying Start @ Duchy Dig Into Harvest

Flying Start @ Duchy Dig Into Harvest

We have had a busy few weeks in preschool, the  children started to learn about Harvest festival. They firstly started off by reading the scarecrows wedding, from this they decided they wanted to make their own scarecrow! The children then made a display board: they collected leaves in the forest and brought them back to nursery, they then used these to do some leaf painting, there was lots of talk about why the leaves have fallen of the trees and why they turn brown.

 

 

 

 We then looked at lots of food which are Harvested and found out where in the world these foods come from and had a look on a world map.

 

 They then decided what they needed to use to make their scarecrow.

 

 

We then took a trip to Lifton farm shop where the children got to look at lots of different fruit and vegetables and choose which ones they wanted to use to make their own soup. The children also chose a loaf of bread to go with their soup. We then had a look at all the sunflowers and had a play in the park. When they got back to nursery, the children all used the vegetables and made some yummy soup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then started to look at wheat and what it is used for, we read the story of the little red hen and the children found out that wheat is used to make bread. We then painted pictures of wheat and used some wheat to make some corn dolls.