I have been creating a nature calendar for Dani for a week now. This is how it will look like. As soon as I clean the nozzles of the printer, I will immediately print it out and hang it up, our stand is already hanging.
A little about the content.
The train for the days of the week is painted in the colors of the rainbow, it will be possible to insert heroes into the wagons - a kitten, a puppy, etc. They can also be put in a balloon basket. As heroes, you can use characters from your favorite cartoons, a gnome, a brownie, etc. On each trailer, the number of circles corresponds to the day of the week in a row.
The balloon and alarm clock will have arrows that the child will move according to the month of the year and the time of day. Poems, riddles about the seasons, days of the week, etc. will be placed on free sheets.
The thermometer will have a blue-red thread that can be moved depending on the temperature outside. Heroes that can be put on a train and a balloon.
On the strip yesterday, today, tomorrow, it will be possible to attach pictures with the main events that take place in the life of a child: arrival or trip to grandma, going to the theater, park, circus, kindergarten, holidays, etc. It will also be possible to attach data on your meteorological observations there - weather - rain, snow, sunny, cloudy, etc.
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Kindergarten is not just a place where the child spends time while the parents are at work. Here he receives development, gets acquainted with the rules of communication and behavior, learns a lot about himself and the world around him. The GEF program states that, among other things, each group must have a nature calendar for kindergarten. For younger children, this is one stand, for older children, another. However, such a calendar performs important tasks and serves as a didactic material for the teacher in familiarizing children with nature and weather.
Nature calendar for kindergarten - why is it needed?
A corner of nature, as the aforementioned calendar is also called, is a useful decoration for every group. It should be not only bright and interesting, but also informative. Main functions of the calendar:
- Formation of children's ideas about ecology.
- The development of thinking, the ability to establish causal relationships between different natural phenomena.
- Suggestion of the basics of correct behavior in nature and the desire to save it.
- Formation of an idea of how vast and diverse the world around is.
- Raising a reverent attitude and love for nature.
The idea of what a natural corner should be, each educator has his own. But do not forget that children should learn as much as possible of the new and in a form that is understandable to themselves. An addition to the calendar will be where you can place (ficus, primrose, violets, chlorophytum and others) and show the guys how to properly care for them. You can also have small and unpretentious animals there: fish, pigs, parrots, hamsters, mice, turtles. Children will be able to visually observe how representatives of flora and fauna behave depending on the time of year and weather conditions.
The biggest difficulty for teachers is usually associated with the design of the calendar in a corner of nature. Questions about what information to place there, how to present it correctly, how to tell pupils about what they see. Now in the store you can find a large number of ready-made nature calendars for kindergarten, which contain everything you need. As a result, all options are divided into 2 age groups: for the younger group and the middle / older group.
Nature calendar for the younger group
For children 3-4 years old, several types of nature calendars are distinguished: observation of the growth and development of animals, birds, and seasonal changes in nature. The bird calendar contains photos of different birds that fly to the feeder - many of them the children get to know for the first time.
The calendar of changes in nature depending on the season allows the children to systematically observe what is happening outside the window every day and compare it with the data. Very often it is made in the form of a clock with an arrow. The teacher needs to conduct observations for them at the beginning and end of each season. Pictures are attached to the calendar depicting weather conditions at different times of the year, so after a walk the entire younger group can find the necessary ones (sun, rain, wind, snowstorm) and attach them to the stand. In this case, the calendar may contain several sectors:
- Seasons: summer, spring, autumn, winter. In any case, a nature calendar for a kindergarten should be drawn up with this sector in any case, because in the younger group, the children are just beginning to get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it is cold, hot, windy, this refers to spring or autumn, winter or summer, birds fly away or are returning.
- Natural phenomena and temperature: rain (strong and weak), snow, blizzard, wind, sun, fog, hail, frost, ice, etc.; temperature scale with an element moving along it.
- Days of the week: Monday to Sunday.
Simultaneously with the use of the calendar of nature, the teacher gives the children to play a didactic game where a doll is needed. They must understand how warm clothes need to be chosen, where and in what sequence they should be worn.
Nature calendar for kindergarten middle and senior group
If with kids of 3 years old the teacher observes each natural phenomenon separately, then from 4 years old children are able to perceive 2-3 phenomena at the same time. For example, not only rainy weather, but also windy weather at the same time, or not just blooming of leaves on trees, but also their fall with a gust of wind. In this case, the calendar of nature can be complicated or supplemented.
For example, months with holidays can be filled with the corresponding flags or pictures: "March 8", "New Year", "Easter" and others. Now you can not only mark the day of the week on which the children came to kindergarten today, but also indicate the date, month and year that has come.
Calendar manufacturers began to produce quite modern models of them, which contain magnets and can act as a whiteboard for washable markers. Preschoolers who have already mastered letters and numbers can enter their notes into it or depict what they see with drawings - or the teacher does it. It turns out a kind of diary of observations, which can be discussed daily with the pupils. Styles of calendars can be very different: cartoonish, sports, plain, funny, with the image of children, animals, plants or beautiful nature in the background.
We make a nature calendar for kindergarten with our own hands
If there is no money to buy a ready-made calendar, or if your imagination boils so much that you want to realize your ideas in creating it, then with a time investment of about 5-6 hours, you can make a corner of nature with your own hands. Here are some interesting options.
Perhaps the most practical calendar will be one that has a durable base and excellent tenacity. A great option is a rectangular rug. On it you can use pins to cling pictures and decorations. The disadvantage of such a calendar is not the highest security. Therefore, it is best to apply it in the older group of kindergarten. Let each season be framed separately.
Spring has come - you can hang appropriate photographs (even of the children themselves), pictures cut from magazines or postcards. On the Internet you will also find images of weather phenomena for this time of year. From colored paper, you can make "clocks" of the days of the week and time of day. Or it can be just pictures that are selected using checkboxes.
Another good option is plywood or PVC base. Then it will be safer to work. Self-adhesive paper will allow you to both decorate the stand and arrange it correctly. Ask creative parents to bring themed cards or handmade interactive items from home. The moving indicator of the thermometer can be made of red and blue locks. Let them close in the middle, and above and below it, write down the indicators of the thermometer with the original scale.
A simplified version of the natural calendar will also be interesting. Arrange the seasons clockwise, indicating their characteristic weather conditions. Place an arrow in the center. You can attach 4 files to the base and insert images with the seasons into them, and on top, using self-adhesive paper or double-sided tape, cling images of animals, weather, temperature and other things.
By designing a nature calendar for kindergarten, you will allow your pupils to get to know the world around them in the form of precipitation, temperature rise and fall, animals and flowers waking up and falling asleep. Make or buy a stand that children will understand. Let them be involved in the process as much as possible: they themselves talk about what they see and feel, answer questions about what picture and where to place it. Develop guys - this is the future!
Marina Vandysheva
It is a useful decoration for every group. It should be not only bright and interesting, but also informative and understandable for children.
The main features calendar is included:
Formation of children's ideas about ecology.
The development of thinking, the ability to establish causal relationships between different natural phenomena.
Cultivating respect and love for nature.
For the manufacture of calendar need material: plastic panel; plastic corners; scotch; magnet; pictures downloaded from the Internet and printed on self-adhesive paper.
I used a plastic panel for the base of the stand, and plastic corners for the frame.
On the bottom corner I pasted the numbers cut out from the tear-off calendar.
I pasted the numbers on top with tape.
She pulled two threads along which the red window moves freely. In the red frame, children mark the desired day of the month.
I printed color pictures from the Internet on self-adhesive paper, pasted them with wide adhesive tape and placed them on the base.
three circles: change of seasons, parts of the day, various atmospheric phenomena and precipitation. I placed spinning arrows in the center of each circle.
A train with wagons indicates the days of the week, where by moving the Hedgehog in the wagons, you can specify the day of the week.
Pictures of trees and children correspond to seasonal changes.
Each of the pictures is attached to the base with a magnet, which allows you to change them according to the seasons.
I attached 2 transparent pockets to the base and inserted images into them in accordance with the season.
I also printed a thermometer.
The moving indicator of the thermometer is made of ordinary cord, half dyed with red lacquer.
I think that having such nature calendar you can maximize the activity of children in the corner nature.
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The change of seasons, day and night, various atmospheric phenomena and precipitation are the subject of study for the entire preschool period. To facilitate the task of observing the changes that occur in nature, the participants "" made nature calendars for their kids with their own hands. As it turned out, there can be many options for creating such a didactic manual. I am sure you will like one of them, and very soon you will have your own center for observing the weather with children in your home.
Source materials:
- Whatman sheet;
- A sheet of colored cardboard;
- Color blanks (we have these natural phenomena, time of day, and seasons);
- Magnetic tape;
- Magnets holders;
- File;
- Double-sided tape;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Thick thread with a needle.
Manufacturing process:
Victoria Pechieva, mother of 2 kids: Nastenka 2 years old. 5 months and Matveyka, 8 months old, Belorechensk.
Nature calendar for kids
I made a calendar of nature on a large sheet of drawing paper. First, I developed a sketch, thought out where which elements would be located. I tried to make it as simple as possible so that my daughter could understand.
The calendar has:
- Seasons;
- days of the week;
- weather;
- Times of Day.
I printed out color pictures on the printer, painted some. The days of the week are arranged in colored circles made of self-adhesive paper strictly according to the colors of the rainbow, numbered and signed. The days of the week and the time of day are located in a circle that I pasted onto hard cardboard. 
The most difficult thing was to make spinning arrows, dad helped with this. The arrows themselves are made from pieces of a yogurt bottle (originally cut out of cardboard, but seemed fragile). The arrow is attached with a bolt and nuts, the nuts are screwed on both sides of the poster, for strength everything was laid with cardboard. The metal elements were sealed with white self-adhesive paper.
First, you can look at the poster, study the numbers, colors, weather, and then the daughter herself will show what the weather is like now.
Olga Antonenko and daughter Olesya, 1 year 5 months, Yaroslavl
Calendar - a window on the refrigerator
We will need:
- cardboard;
- colored beautiful paper;
- soft magnets;
- printed thematic pictures;
- glue.
I immediately liked the idea of creating a weather calendar. The only thing was that there was no time to do something large-scale, project-based. Yes, and I wanted something small and on magnets. Therefore, I decided that it would be a window on the refrigerator. Our refrigerator is conveniently located near the window, and as a rule, it is with it that the day begins. So I thought it would be great to start not only with food, but also with observing what is now outside the window, what day of the week, in what mood we woke up and fill our window. 
The window itself was made of thick cardboard. Then I decorated it with beautiful colored paper and glued a soft magnet on the back. Then I printed pictures. Decided it would be:
- Day of the month - will help us to study the numbers;
- The days of the week are in the form of wagons, so that they can be either attached to the window or assembled side by side in order;
- Weather - we will look out the window and analyze what we see now;
- - help the son to better understand what he feels;
- Months - I think, it is already possible to slowly master.
And the last one is the most difficult to implement, but I really want it to be the most important event of the day. It can be put down in the morning, as an expectation of what lies ahead for us today, or in the evening, so that the son himself chooses what he remembers the most.
Until this column is filled, I need to think about which pictures to choose, most likely it will be replenished gradually, because going to the theater and buying ice cream can become an important event.
In any case, I hope filling this box will become a good tradition to start the day.
Olga Danilova and son Yura, 2.6 years old, St. Petersburg.
The calendar was made in several visits. It consists of three blocks:
- season;
- day / night (days of the week are still difficult for us to realize).
The idea was this: to make sensory seasons. 
Winter- covered the sheet with heavily diluted blue gouache, then sprinkled with salt. When it dried, it turned out very beautifully, the salt crystals shimmer like snow.
Spring- first they picked napkins, then soaked them in a solution (water + green gouache + PVA). I glued it to the sheet. After drying, the child applied flowers with his finger - yellow, blue, red.
Summer- the butterfly was painted with fingers.
Autumn- first, the child drew falling leaves with a finger, then glued the sticks in the form of trees.
Rain painted with fingers. I cut out the snowflake. The sun from clothespins (there is another modification of it on cardboard). The cloud was cut out of a sponge. Night - stars were drawn on the cream lid with a finger. 
Seasons are constantly placed, the rest is inserted into transparent pockets. We will study the weather outside and the time of day.
Alla Shuvalova and daughter Lenochka, 11 months old, Samara.
Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for the child?
Calendar - poster on self-adhesive film
I wanted to make a functional, useful thing for my daughter, but at the same time, so that she would be interesting to her, understandable, meet her interests and age appropriate. So it didn't load too much. Since my daughter loves to draw, it was decided to allocate a special place for this: she painted a tree (apple tree). Then we will draw color, leaves, apples. In general, what we will observe in nature. 
Made the main natural phenomena in the form of Velcro toys:
- the sun from the threads of floss. Crocheted a cardboard circle;
- a synthetic winterizer served as a filler for the cloud;
- a cloud with rain is filled with millet - "rain";
- I wove a snowflake from beads (you can find many patterns on the Internet).
The entire poster was sealed with a self-adhesive film, due to which it achieved multifunctionality. 
The apple tree turned out to be of the “draw-erase” type, cards can be glued to the rest of the area with adhesive tape or on the same film: signs of spring, other natural phenomena (rainbow, fog, thunderstorm, etc.). I pasted short poems for myself about the cloud, the sun, spring, and it turned out to be little cheat sheets.
Katerina Efremova and daughter Olya 1 year 3 months
The whole family undertook to make a weather calendar: mom cut it out, daughter glued it, and dad assembled the whole structure! For our age, we decided that it would be enough to determine the weather according to the following parameters: the sun is shining, cloudy weather, it is snowing or raining. Over time, the calendar will be supplemented with other criteria. In the meantime, before going for a morning walk, Alena and I look out the window and say what kind of weather is outside our window, and then we go to the weather calendar and hide either the sun, or clouds, or snow, or rain behind its window.
We needed:
Manufacturing process:
- Blanks of colored paper were glued onto a large sheet of cardboard (a circle and rays for the sun, clouds, snowflakes were made using a figured hole punch, raindrops).
- A window was cut out of a small cardboard, on one side of which a thin cocktail tube was glued.
- They pulled a fishing line in the center of the calendar, inserted it into the window with a straw. Smaller pieces of the tube were glued along the edges of the wrong side of the calendar, a fishing line was inserted into them and its ends were tied in the middle of the wrong side.
Thus, the window easily moves from one end of the calendar of nature to the other and can both rise to the top row and fall to the bottom.
Salimova Olga and daughter Alena, 2 years old, 2 months old, Yekaterinburg.
My daughter and I already had a calendar indicating the seasons that we made together: we cut out a cardboard circle, divided it into 4 parts, in each of which we drew a tree (covered with snow, blooming and flowering, with a bright green crown and yellow-red ).
After that, I glued our “Dial of the Seasons” onto an A3 sheet, signed and supplemented it with a sheet with the name of the season and months (the colored paper clip acts as an index here), as well as a pocket where we show the number. 
Now it's the turn of the weather calendar. We made another round scoreboard with an arrow pointer. They came up with symbols, drew and attached a new scoreboard and an arrow to the already existing calendar with a button.
It turned out much easier and faster than I expected, seeing similar calendars!
Kudryashova Nadezhda and children Anya (4.4 years old) and Misha (1.2 years old), St. Petersburg.
Here is our version of a simple weather calendar. Printed the days of the week, time of day and time of year. On a separate sheet, they drew a circle with months and decorated it, added the seasons to it and divided it into sectors. 
They hung it on a magnetic board, and with the help of magnets, the daughter sets the desired value. And in the date and weather column writes the corresponding values. Here we have such a mobile board. The most interesting thing is that the daughter can show her imagination and draw the weather as she herself feels. This is mini art - therapy is obtained.
Trukhacheva Maria and daughter Vasilisa, 6 years old
I really liked the idea of a do-it-yourself weather calendar, since my son and I have already begun to learn such concepts as seasons, weather, precipitation.
To begin with, I took a base sheet of A3 watercolor paper, pasted over it with colored paper, with the image of clouds. The main theme of the calendar, I took exactly the concept of seasons and the fact that each season has 3 months. 
I found these pictures, made one corner rounded and glued it to the main sheet. Then I wrote down the names of the months. I plan to hang the calendar on the refrigerator, next to the window, so that my son and I can look in there and see what the weather is like now.
On the left, I drew a scale with types of precipitation, opposite which you can put a magnet. I signed the calendar and made an arrow to determine the month. Here is the calendar!
It is clearly visible: it is now spring, the month of March, it is snowing outside. The son has already examined it and it seems to me that he liked the calendar.
Geido Olga and son Vanya, 1 year 3 months old, Novosibirsk
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