Kindergarten readiness fun and learning can connect to any season for just about any reason. Since today is the first day of fall, it’s a perfect time for a fall play-of-the-day. Depending on the weather where you are, it could be sunny and hot, or rainy and cold. Hmm, I think we had both sunny and rainy, hot and cold all day long yesterday, like the weather couldn’t make up it’s mind what season to be.
Whenever the seasons change, one of the activities I like to do with kids, is to go outside and see what might be happening. Kids seem to notice details that grownups wouldn’t see, so just a short, simple walk around the block can be quite an amazing journey of discovery and adventure.
This year’s fall walk started out before we even got out of bed, with a thunderstorm in the middle of the night. Arriving after several days of record-breaking temperatures for this time of year it was quite a change. Most of the leaves are still green, except for a beautiful display of red on these little trees. Where we live, the hot summer makes the lawns a dry brown and the cool fall rains turns them back to green. But the flowers are gone and the weeds are tall. The blackberries are dried up too and the helicopter seeds have flown away. The kidlet eyes spotted these puddles and some very big leaves.
Seasonal changes can be big or very small, and sometimes it’s about the things we don’t see as much as what we do. We didn’t see butterflies or bugs. And soon we won’t see any leaves either. As kids look and see, they are developing their observation skills and building their knowledge about their environment. Best of all, they are connecting to nature. What are the signs of fall on your walk around the neighborhood?