Our poster
These pictures document the activities we made for the American Recycles Day. It's an event celebrated in the USA on Novembre 15 each year. We suggested our pupils take part to this event within the Clever Consumption starts early on Erasmus+ project, in which our pre-school class is involved this school year.
In these first pictures, the kids were drawing a fish in the sea. Then, they were supposed to stick some pieces of plastic in the sea, around the fish. The kids carried out this activity after watching a video about a red balloon flying around the world. In this video, the balloon was very sad to discover that birds, fishes and other animals were still. They weren't able to move because there was too much rubbish and too much pollution around them. Before starting this activity, we talked together with the kids about the possible dangers / harm that plastic and garbage in general can cause to fishes. We asked the kids some questions like: 1) are fishes happy or sad about having plastic in the sea? 2) What can happen to fishes which meet plastic?
Here are our works' pictures and the video about the red balloon meeting the little fish (please activate English subtitles on the YouTube video):
Our recycled bottles
Looking for small "treasures" to put inside our bottles
These pictures are about a project we made on the days around recycling day. The project's name is The treasure bottles. The aim of the project was for the kids to collect small objects from the school yard (like leaves, rocks, pine-cones, snails...) and to put them inside a small recycled plastic bottle. In particular, being in autumn, we asked the kids to look for typical things of this season, and to pay attention to details like the colour of leaves and so on. An important aim of the project has been for the kids to show their bottles and the materials inside them to their classmates, and to swap bottles among them. Learning to share things is a primary objective of pre-school. Another goal was for the kids to be able to take enough time, to spend time relaxing, observing nature and watching the things they collected, even while lying down or sitting on a carpet. This is a very important skill, in a world that goes faster and faster,and in which kids are demanded to move on from an activity to the next one without having time to explore things in all their facets.