Oak Class set off onto the playground with a tub of conkers to have a go at conker rolling, to see who can roll their conker the furthest. This was a little trickier that you might think as many of them found that their conkers bounced and change direction so not going as far as they would have liked.
Some of the class chose to create things using clay. They used their conker as a shell to make a snail and then made the body of the snail from clay. They used paint pens to add decoration to their conker snail shells. Hunting on the ground they found two sticks that they could push into the clay as the eyes. One of the snails that was made had orange stripes added to the body and the child said “I’m making a fire snail”.
Using leaves and some charcoal the class tried doing some leaf rubbing. They did this by placing the leaf under the paper before rubbing the charcoal over the top. They found that this worked best if the leaf was under side up leaving a better impression.
Many of the children were keen to hunt for bugs again. They worked their way around Forest School turning over the logs and having a look underneath: “look a centipede”. They found many worms, slugs, a few centipedes and a beetle. Using magnifying pots the children were able to catch what they had found and take a closer look.
