Project Ekorn October 2019 - May 2020
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We chose to meet and strengthen the children's already empathetic and relational relationship with squirrels. The conversations gave us an insight into how the children think.
What they know and are interested in about the squirrel. Documentation recreated memories and led to new thoughts and feelings that were shared with the children's group and staff. This created a basis for reflection that showed us a way forward in the topic and possibly led to a larger project, which it just did! We have learned to know squirrels in different ways through drawing, painting, modelling, making, practicing being a squirrel, learning movements, squirrel anatomy, we built two feeding stations for squirrels, used facts and imagination, we have looked at squirrels documentary on NRK, caught squirrels on wildlife camera and talked about how we humans affect nature and wildlife.
At the end of the project, we learned to grieve over something we have come to love and know a lot about, namely squirrels. We found a hit squirrel on the road by the nursery school and had a close study of the squirrel before a nice burial. The squirrel project has been an exciting and educational project that both children and adults have greatly enjoyed.
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