Autumn leaf pictures and lots of 'problem solving, reasoning and numeracy'

The children created an autumn leaf picture from the leaves we collected at the duck pond last week.  We also used some leaves from a tree in our garden which has some lovely autumn colour.  We talked about autumn and what colours the leaves change to.  We discovered that some are red, yellow, brown and even pink. 

Later this morning, we got out lots of items for sorting, including a tray full of shells, lots of lids, some different-coloured gingerbread men and lots of pairs of socks.  The children played for a long time with the various items, counting, sorting, classifying, according to size and colour, and matching patterns.