Pre Primary Wing

NATURE WALK…

We want our children to grow up in a healthy and happy environment. One of the greatest gifts parents can give to their children is to make them play outdoors instead of making them stay indoors playing video games on mobiles, tabs or television.

A nature walk is an excellent way to stimulate a child’s appreciation for the natural world.

Nature Walk:

Take the children for a nature walk. Ask them to tell you about what they see, hear, smell or feel.

Encourage the children to feel the texture of stones, barks of trees and dried up leaves. These are the first hand experiences for the young curious minds.

Playing outside is vital in improving a child’s emotional, intellectual, physical and social development.

Preferably take children for Nature walk during morning or evening time so that children can observe sunrise or sunset also.

While walking children try to explore new things. They may observe nature very closely: different plants, insects, animals, birds, flowers, stones, various sounds and smells.

Nature walk is a useful outdoor activity which provides opportunities for the child to move and exercise thereby contributing to their physical health. The children become more agile.
It promotes creativity and imagination.
Playing outdoors children may give a chance to interact with people thus helping in their social development and building their confidence.

ACTIVITIES

Requirement:

You may carry an old book, A4 sheets, crayons, mobile phone with you for Nature Walk

Encourage your child to collect leaves of different sizes. Teach them how to press them between the pages of a book.
They may make a Scrapbook of different leaves they have collected.
They may make animal drawings in a Drawing book/scrap book with the help of the leaves collected.
They may collect types of stones. Ask them to compare the different stones collected with regard to their shape, size ,colour and texture.
Encourage your child to listen to sounds made by different birds. Record the sounds on the mobile.
Encourage children to observe different insects, birds, flowers, animals around them. You may click photographs or record videos of the same.
Children can make bark rubbings on sheets of paper.
Once back they may do leaf printing with the leaves collected.

- Ms. Pallavi Kundam