Foxes set off for the woods in the gorgeous, bright, cold frosty morning. Once in the woods, the children started the session with a game of 1,2,3,change tree to warm them up before we started! They showed good running, direction changing and really enjoyed the game, paying great attention to the rules. Well done Foxes.
This term the Foxes Class learning journey is all about Roald Dahl, so we started the day with a story; ‘Billy and the Minpins’. It is about Billy exploring the deep dark woods and discovering creatures living in the trees. The children looked and listened to the woodland environment around them as they listened to the story, to enrich their imagination.
Then the children had a go at using some tools to peel the bark from some freshly cut hazel sticks. They learned to use loppers and peelers safely and showed great enthusiasm for their work. They took their creations back to the classroom to draw character faces onto later in the day.
The children found, then made some creations using clay. They scooped out the clay into buckets, which was tricky initially, as the ground was frozen! Some went on to create some small woodland people and houses with the clay. They also used sticks and frozen leaves in the roots of some of the fallen trees. They used our wooden play set to create some small world stories inspired by the story they had heard earlier.
Then there was time to explore and play in the woodland. There was some excellent turn taking and balancing on the slack line. It was great to see the children taking risks and challenging themselves with working out how to balance, how to work out the best way of moving along the line carefully and how to turn take and share the space with each other.
Lots of the class worked to develop a den of sticks and they continued digging out an old root from the forest floor, showing excellent focus and perseverance along with problem solving.
