Activites in Slovenia - may

''CLOUD IN A JAR''

Nature is a topic from the curriculum with which children's capacities for active cooperation and inclusion into our surrounding physical and social environment are regularly being developed. We put the majority of focus onto acquiring plenty experiences with living beings, natural phenomena and joy in exploration and new discoveries.

Weather is a natural phenomena that takes place in the atmosphere. The four- and five-year-olds have however brought a part of the weather wonders into our classroom. We recreated the conditions in which clouds occur – in a jar no less! Glass jars were the location where clouds formed and children observed processes of cooling and condensation and were amazed by the formation of little clouds.

We previously observed clouds in the sky, commented on them in videos and  listened to an Eric Carle story Little Cloud. With hands-on experiences children got to know the physical environment that surrounds us all.

Narava je posebno področje, v okviru katerega razvijamo otrokove sposobnosti za dejavno vključevanje v obdajajoče fizično in družbeno okolje. Poudarek je na pridobivanju izkušenj z živimi bitji, naravnimi pojavi ter veselju v raziskovanju in odkrivanju. Področje postopno razvija naravoslovne pojme preko nezavednih procesov.

Vreme je pojav, ki se dogaja v atmosferi, v oddelku 4-5 let vrtca Tabor pa smo delček vremenskih pojavov prenesli v igralnico. Poustvarili smo pogoje za nastajanje oblakov. V steklenih loncih so otroci opazovali procesa ohlajanja in kondenzacij ter se čudili ob nastajanju majhnih oblakov v kozarcu. 

Oblake smo opazovali na nebu, na posnetku in v zgodbi Erica Carla Little Cloud ter tako na konkreten način spoznavali fizično okolje, ki nas obdaja.