It is very important for the diversified development of the kids to draw their attention to the seasonal changes in the world around us. For example, with the beginning of September, autumnal phenomena of nature, both living and nonliving, should be noted. This is done on walks, during classes in drawing, manual labor, the development of speech.
Autumn natural phenomena in the inanimate world
First of all, seasonal changes in inanimate nature should be noted . Older children can already keep a weather calendar by drawing special icons in it and conducting a comparative analysis with previous months. It is very important to monitor the plants and animals that inhabit the zoo. Children should be led to the conclusion that autumnal natural phenomena are divided into changes occurring in inanimate and living nature. Autumn phenomena in inanimate nature include a number of signs of this season.
1. Daylight hours are shortened: morning comes later, and evening comes earlier.
2. The temperature drops - it gets colder every day.
3. There are fewer sunny days, often clouds and clouds hide the sky.
4. Increasingly, it rains outside, the wind blows.
5. The wind has become stronger and colder, the air is filled with damp.
6. The leaves on the trees lose their green color and become dry.
7. The grass has withered, and the flowers have wilted.
8. Leaves fall from trees and fall.
The aesthetic side of the autumn phenomena
It is extremely important to draw the attention of children not only to the autumn phenomena of nature as such, but also to help emerging personalities to feel the beauty of the world around them. Learning tongue twisters, riddles, poems, songs of autumn themes develops the vocabulary of kids, teaches you to notice the beautiful in the ordinary. Excursions to the forest or the park are very useful, where the task is for the children: to collect beautiful leaves, cones, acorns, dry twigs of an interesting shape, from which the children will later make various crafts, applications, and paintings in manual classes.
Autumn phenomena in wildlife
Children should definitely be led to find the answer to the question: “What are the phenomena of nature in the living world around us?” The answers to this question may be as follows.
- Insects hide with the onset of cold weather.
- Many birds gather in flocks at the beginning of autumn, prepare to fly to warmer countries, and by the middle of this period their departure begins.
- Many wild animals stock up on food for the winter.
- Fur animals change summer fur coats to winter: gray hares turn into white, red squirrels turn into gray-blue, the fur coat has more abundance of fur.
- People collect crops from gardens, prepare it for storage.
- Work is being carried out in areas: the soil is dug with the addition of organic fertilizers, some crops are planted, beds with perennial plants are insulated.
Properties of natural phenomena
Getting acquainted with natural phenomena, one should note their interconnection. For example, lowering the temperature in the fall contributes to the fact that all insects hide, fall asleep. And the trees drop their leaves because winter is approaching, when daylight hours will decrease greatly. But the leaves need the sun for life. And even with the onset of frost, the amount of moisture in the earth will be limited, practically reduced to zero. To preserve the beneficial substances inside, the tree discards foliage, because through it the evaporation of internal moisture occurs.