Waverley Park Kindergarten visit – 5 April 2016
On Tuesday 5th April, ten children from Waverley Park Kindergarten visited the property with Myross Bush Nature Discovery teacher Wendy. The children were part of the regular visits to Kindy South bush property at Myross Bush and for today’s visit they were excited to be discovering a new forest. Feeding the ducks was the first activity before venturing into the deepest darkest part of the forest. The theme of nature discovery is very much that children are left to use their own senses – looking, hearing, touching, smelling to make their own nature discoveries and the children found all sorts of interesting patterns, colour and species such as an adult nursery spider under the web, lots of fungi (“which you can’t eat because you don’t know if they are poisonous” I was told!). At one place we were all silent for 2 minutes enabling us to hear bellbirds and tui, while a fantail followed us most of the way round. What was apparent to me was the confidence these children had in the bush – enabling them to see so much more of what was going on around them and ask lots of quaestions. It is a credit to Kindergarten South that they are encouraging “nature discovery” as it has benefits for children in so many ways.
Posted: 12 April 2016