The children set off on a cold and frosty morning on the hunt for some ice. It wasn’t long before they found some on the plastic that is covering the vegetable garden beds, it looked like a ice rink! The class made their way onto the ice, listening to it crunch as they walked over it. As the children picked up the ice they noticed that it had broken into different shapes “I found a triangle”, “I found a house”. Some of the ice was in rather large pieces, the children picked them up looking at all the little bubbles within the ice before dropping it on the floor and watching it break as it hit the ground.
As the children made their way to Forest School they were on the hunt for as many different autumn leaves as they could find. Working in teams they placed the leaves they found onto an ID sheet, this allowed the children to work out what trees the leaves belonged to.
Once at Forest School some of the class got stuck into creating some more amazing foods in the mud kitchen. They placed many leaves and some soil into the pans before adding some water to mix it all together.
Others chose to collect fallen leaves to fill a bucket that they were then going to add to our Bug Hotel in the pond area. Once their buckets were full they were ready to go and make the improvement to the bug hotel however there was a willow branch blocking our access through the gate. The children worked together to carry the branch out of the way and added it to our log pile. At the Bug Hotel the children started to stuff the leaves they had gathered into any gap they could see. We talked about how it is important to create somewhere dry and out of the cold for all the bugs to hide now that the weather is getting colder.
A couple of children noticed that there were some brambles growing out of the sides of the bug hotel and asked if they could cut them away. Using a pair of secateurs they carefully cut away any brambles that they could see. They worked well as a team with one doing the cutting while the other looked for more brambles to be removed.
