Our Pippi’s class celebrated their first Festival last Friday with joy and enthusiasm, their smiles were beaming as they walked past their parents carrying their offering to the Harvest table, there was even a few little voices singing our Harvest songs…
Celebrating Autumn through the Harvest Festival is an opportunity to come together as a community and it was so wonderful to be able to share it with parents over a relaxed afternoon tea in our beautiful Rosewood Garden. The festival celebrates reaping the rewards of hard work, showing gratitude for our food on our table as well as to connect with the change of season as summer slips away.
Though we didn’t have a harvest from our own garden, the lead up to our festival saw as preparing our vegetable garden. There was especially a lot of excitement around Nick delivering a tractor full of soil to us! After lots of shovelling soil, we planted our seedlings and then lots of watering every morning.
In our room the mood leading up to our festival was felt through harvest stories and our morning ring was full of movement rhymes and songs of farming, we also chopped many, many plums to make plum jam which the children took home on the day. Some children worked the stone mill to grind rice into flour which we can use in our bread rolls.
All this activity brings to the children a hands-on experience to acknowledging where our food comes from as well as the benefits of hard work and looking after the environment. It brings with it a sense of gratitude and a deeper sense of the cycle of life.
Kindergarten is enjoying a wonderful harvest nature table to celebrate the changing of the season and the rest of the School is preparing for and looking forward to Harvest Festival on Thursday April 4.
