Our schools boast large playgrounds, providing an ideal environment for outdoor activities. Each school has a garden, where we encourage our youngest students to discover and develop values of respect, responsibility, effort, and appreciation for nature. P2 students discover new experiences and learn to recognize animal characteristics, their habitats, what they eat, and the differences between them and us. They will learn to work in the garden, associating concepts, and will plant carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetables that they will need to care for and water so they grow. Through the experience provided by the Nature Project, the children begin to ask questions and awaken their curiosity—the driving force behind learning—about aspects related to nature, while enjoying interacting with it in a healthy and vibrant way.
Project work is based on a constructive conception of learning, where pedagogical intervention is aimed at promoting children's meaningful learning in an intentional and reflective way. We manipulate all types of materials (earth, water, straw, etc.), and thus develop the creative participation of children and collaboration between them in order to enrich learning. To conclude the learning from this project, with the arrival of good weather we took an extracurricular outing to the school farm.
