The children have been talking a lot recently about what it means to be sustainable and what effects this has on our environment. The children visited the atelier in their key groups where we discussed what we can do as a nursery to support our local area and the environment as a whole. The first group of children read a story about the life of a cardboard box and a conversation ensued about what and how we can recycle. The children identified how they recycle at home and we talked about the different coloured bins we might have for waste.
““I have brown and a blue and green, the brown is cardboard, blue is for bottles and green is for plastic”.”
This discussion then led to the children thinking about how we can support the environment in our nursery garden. The children became fascinated by how worms can help the environment and wanted to create worm homes. They drew a plan of how they would create their worm homes and we set to work collecting the resources we would need to build them.
““I have brown and a blue and green and one is yellow. I have one under the dishwasher inside and you can put glass in it””
