september 2019
As the weather began to change the children
could barely hold back their excitement as they were eager to go outside a look
for worms. This interest began as children talked about summer activities and one that was commonly shared was fishing. As the
children shared about what they knew about fishing, Lillian shouted with
excitement, “you need worms to catch the fish”. So, to support and extend this
interest within our program, we went on daily worm hunts with the children
throughout the yard to see how many worms we could find. As we continued
looking for worms the children would fill up pails with dirt and place the
worms into the pails as they said it was the worm’s home. This continued inside
the preschool room as the children would make worm homes inside our sand box
and the educators had added pretend worms to the sand to help promote this
play. As a week went by the children wanted to bring their large collection of
worms inside to put in their sand homes, so we did just that. The children
helped to transform our sand box into a large worm house, they helped to cut
newspaper, add soil, spray the area and lastly, they were eager to add the
worms into their home. The children were then able to watch the worms develop
and grow in their environments created by all the children themselves. Each day
the this brought excitement to the children as they spent lots of time feeding
them fruit, digging holes for the worms to crawl through and giving them water.
Tawni Johnston RECE, BABED
Ashlie Johnston RECE
