Early morning experience in my backyard by Manjeet Kaur https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg en-us 2023-05-12 09:38:21 UTC 2025-10-19 16:39:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Leaves color looked yellowish green and orange color, It was just a reflection from light. When i looked at them from different angles and spaces their color was looking all green. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588502245 2023-05-12 10:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588502245 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588507175 2023-05-12 10:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588507175 The most effective way to instill a lifelong sense of caring and responsibility for the natural world is to give young children frequent positive experiences with the world of nature. If the children get engaged in natural environment, they will be more caring and responsible towards nature.(Wilson, R, 2007) manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588510635 2023-05-12 10:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588510635 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588511844 2023-05-12 10:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588511844 Ladyfinger vegetable looked like a leaf but when you see it with full attention, It is actually a ladyfinger. This experience applies to my early childhood practice that we need to give children full attention, only then we can understand children more and create learning opportunities according to their interests. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588512823 2023-05-12 10:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588512823 Beautiful moon looked round and blurry but it was not actually round, it was half. It was surrounded by clouds and its light was spreading around it. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588514923 2023-05-12 10:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588514923 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588516763 2023-05-12 10:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588516763 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588518209 2023-05-12 10:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588518209 References manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588519891 Wilson, R, 2007, Children, creative play, and the natural environment, in R. Wilson (edn) Nature and Young Children : Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments, Routledge. Ch 1, pp 1-18

Wilson, R. (2018). Nature and Young Children: Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315148533

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vu/reader.action?docID=820317&ppg=352 
Edwards, CP, Gandini, L & Forman, GE 2011, The hundred languages of children: the Reggio Emilia experience in transformation, 3rd edn, ABC-CLIO, LLC.

Niland, A 2009, ‘The power of musical play: the value of play-based, child-centered curriculum in early childhood music education’, General Music Today, vol. 23, no. 1, Sage Publications Inc., pp. 17–21

 
“Natural sensory learning” Diann Gano, Sharron Krull | July 2020 Natural Sensory Learning (communityplaythings.com)

Ungunmerr-Baumann, MR 2002, Dadirri: Inner deep listening and quiet still awareness, Emmaus Productions, pp. 1–4, accessed from http://www.dadirri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dadirri-Inner-Deep-Listening-M-R-Ungunmerr-Bauman-Refl1.pdf.
]]> 2023-05-12 10:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588519891 My shoes marks, when i was walking from wet grass to the concrete. I was wearing shoes, i did not realise that grass was wet until i saw my marks on the concrete when i was going back. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588524830 2023-05-12 10:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588524830 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588528236 2023-05-12 10:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588528236 manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588532230 2023-05-12 10:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588532230 Main artefact video manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588583921 2023-05-12 11:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588583921 I was imagining myself as a bird when i was looking at them. I also wanted to flap my wings and fly and sing. I never realized that birds sing that beautifully. Because it was a quite environment and i was concentrating in listening thats why i could learn more about birds. Reminds me of Dadirri Article, It says if be quiet and listen carefully. We learn better. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588594190 2023-05-12 11:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588594190 Another bird grabbed my attention with flapping his wings and his beautiful melody. manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588597800 2023-05-12 11:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588597800 Analytical experience manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588796114 It was early morning with lots of quietness and bit of darkness.  Grass was bit wet. I felt very cold. Moon looked very beautiful, surrounded by lots of clouds around it, it was actually half but it looked round and bit blurry. From far away, I could hear very low and continuous swooshing sound of the tyres on the road. I could hear birds chirping, tweeting, flapping their wings here and there. I saw tree branching swaying because bird was going inside the branches, flapping its wings making the branches and leaves move. I saw another bird sitting on top of the aerial on the roof of the house. It sang very beautifully and flied away. I could see some of the plants were dying in the pots, may be because of cold weather. I saw ladyfinger plant. Ladyfinger looked like a leaf in the photo but it was actually a ladyfinger. I saw a hole in between the two bricks of the house wall. It was a big hole. some of the bugs can easily make house inside it. I saw there was a lot of dirt on trampoline. I wonder where this dirt came from. 
Overall, my experience was very beautiful and refreshing. It was very quiet and i loved the birds chirping and tweeting. My mind got very relaxed I never realized before that birds sing that beautiful. Also moon looked very beautiful, it reminded me of my childhood, me and my sister used to argue, when we used to see moon like this in the early morning. I used to say its morning now, iso t is sun, not moon but my sister used to say no its moon and we used to go and ask our mum what it is actually. It was so funny.

When i was little, i used to see birds outside my house, i  used to feed them and copy them with flying, eating, flapping wings and chirping. It was such an exciting thing for me to do.

I think when children play in natural environments. They get all the sensory experiences that is needed for their learning and development. It stimulates their play, development, and learning in a special boundless way. (Moore and Cosco, 2006). Playing in natural environment fosters growth in all of the developmental domains (adaptive, aesthetic, cognitive, communication, sensorimotor, and socioemotional). It relates to the book readings "Children, creative play and natural environment"]]> 2023-05-12 14:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588796114 creative response manjeetbajwa824 https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588806065 It was so quiet in the morning and birds were chirping and flying from here to there. I saw a bird sitting on the aerial flapping his wings and singing very beautifully. I got very excited looking at him. I also wanted to be a bird so that I could also fly here and there, flap my wings and sing like him.

My song invention is connected with reading ‘The power of musical play: the value of play-based, child-centered curriculum in early childhood music education"
 Studies of children's invented song have shown use of tonal centers and clear tonal, melodic, and rhythmic structures (Davidson, 1994; Moog, 1976; Whiteman, 2001). Studies of children's free musical play have shown that children will be more deeply engaged over long periods of time and show greater persistence than is often evident in teacher-led group music making (Littleton, 1998; Smithrim, 1997).]]> 2023-05-12 14:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/manjeetbajwa824/a3a5rgrtqkhidjfg/wish/2588806065