In autumn in our playground we have plenty of dead leaves. Pupils like to play with them, but we wanted to give them a second life and teach the children how to take care of their environment.
Some teachers have compost bin in their own building and pupils were very excited to pick up the dried leaves and put them into a bag. Many of them were active helping the teachers.
Meanwhile, they could hear the sounds of the crispy dried leaves and the strong smell of the leaves. Children were very active and they collected more than 4 bags of leaves. Then the leaves were put on a special side waiting to be added to organic’s waste.

In October, 26 pupils aged 5 years old had a bingo game on letters outside the classroom. The teacher gave the name of a letter and pupils had to find it on a small board. They could experiment the pleasure to learn outside in the sun. Their teacher noticed they were quieter and more concentrated on their activity.

As we keep on studying animals with endless enthusiasm we decided to create few arts and crafts using different materials. Cartons, oil crayons, play-doh, colourful wires and pine cones from the pine tree of our garden have been transformed into hedgehogs and cute little mice. Look at them : they love our school and our Erasmus+ program!

On Thursday 18th of October the teachers Maria Cristina Cella and Elena Vermi together with their pupils of Besurica Preprimary school went to Don Minzoni Primary school to meet the pupils of 3rd grade and their teacher Barbara Ferrari, in order to make in common a series of activities in the outdoors according to our Erasmus+ project. Before that we had worked about the parts of tree and we had also read “The very hungry caterpillar” (Eric Carle), because the pupils like to search in the garden for little bugs. During our walk we have collected as usual a lot of materials for studying later in the classroom.

Another mother volunteer came to our school to teach the kids how to make a tasty and healthy sweet using seasonal fruits. The whole procedure took place under the sky where junior chefs got involved in every step: they washed the fruits, they carried all the tools, they cut fruits into small pieces, they smashed ingredients to prepare a crunchy dough and of course they ate all that tasty “fruit soufflé”! Congratulations dear mom; you became a great Erasmus+ volunteer!

In a rainy day last week our pupils had the opportunity to touch seeds and pretend they were farmers. They were happy spreading spinach seeds all over our vegetable garden and talking about delicious recipes full of spinach. You are all invited for a bite of …spinach pie!