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Autumn Leaves.

The autumn season is now here!

The leaves on the trees will be changing colour from green to various shades of yellow, orange, red, and brown. Autumn officially started on the 23rd September, yet it will still be a while before the rich colours can be seen outdoors.

There are many trees and plants surrounding Ishida Kindergarten, with a highly visible mountainous backdrop. It will be very easy to recognize the big changes occuring in nature at this time of the year.

Both the terms ‘autumn’ and the ‘fall’ originate in England, but nowadays ‘autumn’ is mostly used in England, and the ‘fall’ is mostly used in America.

The children painted some strong white paper with four colours to represent the ones seen in autumn. This paper had a fuzzy texture, which helped the paint to spread out and merge together. When dry, the paper was cut into the shapes of leaves – autumn leaves!

These paper leaves were used to decorate the classroom wall for the month of October. The leaves can be seen falling down from some trees, near to some raccoons and foxes. There are also some friendly mushrooms that the children made by painting halves of paper bowls, and attaching them to paper ‘stalks’.

Perhaps seeing such rich colours at this time of year can give us all a warm feeling, even although the weather is getting progressively cooler!

Let’s all enjoy watching the changes that occur during autumn!!

(秋がやってきました!

木の葉っぱも緑から黄色やオレンジ、赤、茶色に色づいていきます。

秋分の日は9月23日にありましたが、鮮やかな色が見られるにはもう少しかかりそうです。

石田幼稚園の周りには木々や植物が囲んでおり、高い山の背景が目に鮮やかです。

季節の変化をとても感じやすいでしょう。

子どもたちは牛乳パックのフィルムをはがした紙に秋を表現する4色の絵の具を塗りました。

この紙はけばけばしていて絵の具が広がり混ざりあいやすくなっています。

乾いた後に葉っぱの形に切り取り、秋の落ち葉の完成!

この落ち葉は保育室の壁面として使います。葉っぱが木からたぬきさんやきつねさんの近くに落ちてきているでしょ。

さらには子どもたちが制作した紙皿のキノコもあります。

季節はだんだんと寒くなっていきますが、これらの豊かな色は私たちをあたたかな気持ちにさせてくれるでしょうね。

みんなで秋の色の変化を見て楽しみましょう!)