Clil Earth Day - Finland

Kirkkonummi Kindergarten activities

To celebrate Earth Day we have created

many things with recycled materials..

Flowers from egg cartons in a vase made from a milk drink

Cars

Pirate ship

Robots made from boxes

Rockets

Kids’ ideas of putting things together

Creativity, learning about technology and design… and pride of making things stick together

Painting the Earth

Monsters

Animals – lions and turtles

Octopus from egg cartoon and fish from newspaper – underwater scene

Re -using things for Easter crafts

Cereal box used to make an egg laced with wool

Milk containers become baskets holding a toilet roll bunny, chick made from egg carton

Cleaning up our surroundings

Visit to the nearest recycling centre

Field trips – we are aware of the trash not put away where it belongs!

We find the bin and put the trash in

At the flowers shop – learning about plants, reading their names and comparing their prices

Planting seeds

Planting a garden

We celebrate Earth Day creating a garden next to Kindergarten. playground

We have some raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and some blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes.

We also have a grape vine –to see if it grows in our climate.

The children planted some seeds .

Our new garden

Berry patch Black currant

Environmental Agency program - toy drama

The story of a boy and a girl, their house and their toys – age appropriate introduction of the concepts of

environment protection

Playing games - everything must find its place to have a safe environment

Our environment is so lovely in spring!