Wildlife activity
In the summer, forest inhabitants lead an active lifestyle: they set up homes, have offspring, and raise young ones.
- In early June, young gophers emerge from their burrows. Soon they will have to move into separate houses and lead an independent life.
- But the hedgehog is already carefully making a nest. She will have children in July.
- In mid-summer, babies are born to hares and squirrels. Females feed their young with milk.
Interestingly, some animals change color depending on the season. For example, the fur of a brown hare has different shades in summer and winter. His grayish-brown summer coat will become much lighter with the onset of cold weather.
A large number of insects
In summer, gardens, fields and meadows are filled with the multivocal buzzing and rustling of wings. Bumblebees, bees, butterflies, beetles fly, crawl, swarm in flowers, collecting nectar. Leaning over, it’s interesting to watch how the restless ants scurry around. In the grass it is not so easy to notice a green caterpillar, which will soon turn into a pupa, and then a butterfly.
But ladybugs cannot be ignored. The red body with black dots is clearly visible on fresh grass. And, of course, no summer can do without grasshoppers and crickets, which chirp together on warm evenings.
Diversity of flora
Nature on summer days is distinguished by an abundance of colors and aromas. City parks and squares are decorated with greenery of trees and shrubs. The flower beds are full of colorful decorations: roses, poppies, gladioli, carnations. The fields and meadows are decorated with daisies, buttercups, bells, and cornflowers.
At the beginning of summer, strawberries, cherries, and currants ripen in garden plots. Young potatoes, carrots, and radishes appear in the vegetable beds. A little later, apricots, peaches, and corn will ripen, followed by melons, watermelons, and grapes. Towards the end of the season, you can pick blackberries, lingonberries, cranberries, and rose hips. At the same time, hazelnuts ripen.
Summarizing
At the end of the first – educational – part of the lesson, it is recommended to summarize the material, highlighting the main information from it.
Distinctive characteristics - 15 signs of summer:
- Daytime heat.
- Warm nights.
- Increasing the length of the day.
- High position of the sun.
- Clear blue sky, sometimes with white clouds.
- Warming up reservoirs.
- Showers with thunderstorms.
- The appearance of a rainbow in the sky.
- Formation of morning dew.
- Many stars in the night sky.
- Variety of flowering plants.
- An abundance of berries, fruits and vegetables.
- A large number of insects.
- The chirping of grasshoppers in the evenings.
- Activity of animals and birds.
Hot days
The main symptom of summer is heat. The sun is located high above the earth, its rays thoroughly warm everything around, including the soil and water bodies. The days become so hot that the heat remains even at night. The sky turns bright blue. It can be clear or with white clouds like snow.
The daily time period increases. This is observed until June 22, after which the light part of the day will begin to gradually decrease.
Consolidation of knowledge
In order for a child to remember the material well, it is necessary to reinforce it with the help of visual aids. To do this, you can use illustrations on the theme “Red Summer”. First, let the child himself depict the season as he imagines it. The finished drawing needs to be discussed in detail, focusing on the characteristic details.
It is useful to learn a song or several short poems about summer, and then, during the lesson, choose suitable pictures for them. And, of course, riddles that children love so much! For each of them, you need to prepare a card with a clue picture in advance.
Depending on the child's developmental level, you can expand the scope of information using additional tools. It is good, for example, to record the voices of animals and birds on audio media so that the baby learns to recognize them. To develop observation skills, you should teach your child to keep a weather calendar, correctly using symbols.
These simple techniques will help a preschooler firmly grasp the material and turn a serious lesson into an exciting game that the young student will certainly want to repeat.
Starfall
If you are lucky enough to take a walk with your parents at a late hour, you should definitely look at the night sky. On the eve of a clear sunny day, it is completely covered with stars. In the summer, such bright light flows from them that even without a flashlight, surrounding objects are clearly visible.
Sometimes one or more shooting stars appear in the sky. In fact, these are particles of cosmic bodies, but popularly this phenomenon is called a starfall.
