Autumn adventure

Last week, we came across a wonderful book We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger and children enjoyed climbing a tall, tall mountain; going through a dark, dark forest; going around a swooshing, swooshing waterfall and rowing in a cold, cold lake. It was so exciting that we decided that we would have to explore too and find colourful leaves.

A semana pasada, decubrimos un marabilloso libro We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt de Steve Metzger e os cativos gozaron escalando unha motaña moi alta: atravesando un escuro bosque;rodeando unha rumorosa fervenza e vogamos nun frío lago. Foi tan emocionate que decidimos que teríamos que sair a explorar e buscar coloridas follas.

Before starting our adventure, we talked about how leaves change in autumn. It is a good opportunity to learn new colours and sizes in English.

Antes de comezar a nosa aventura, falamos un rato de como mudan as follas no outono. É unha boa moportunidade para aprender novas cores e tamaños en inglés.

And then the hunt was on! But we weren’t alone. Children in Level 6 helped us. We were so lucky!

Of couse, we had to learn them our leaf hunt chant.

E logo dou comezado a nosa pescuda! Pero non estivemos sós pois os rapaces e rapazas de sexto nos axudaron. E por suposto, tivemos que ensinarlles a nosa canción para buscar follas de outono.

Back to school, it was time for a fun easy autumn craft activity :LEAF RUBBIBG.

We needed fresh leaves, autumn colour wax crayons (red, yellow, orange, brown) and paper. Students placed leaves under a paper and rubbed the crayons back and forth on top of the paper where the leaves were placed (lay crayon flat). We were soon able to see the shape, stem, and veins of the leaves appear on the paper. It was trully magical!

De volta ao cole, fixemos unha sinxela e divertida actividade manual: estampamos follas. Para facelo, necesitamos as follas que atopamos, ceras coas cores do outono e papel. Os rapaces e rapazas de sexto axudáronnos a pegar e colocar as follas . Logo, puxemos un papel por riba e frotamos coas ceras por toda a folla . Pronto foron aparecendo as distintas partes das follas que tiñamos debaixo do papel. Foi case máxico!