Woodland class started their session by sitting round the fire circle, recapping some of the safety rules that they had learnt their previous session. They then had the opportunity to try some of the jam on crackers that had been made by Owls on the fire last week. Many of the class enjoyed this as quite a few hand more than one cracker!
Some of the class chose to create things using clay. They made some Hedgehogs using the husk from a conker to create the spiky back of their Hedgehog, then using a stick they poked holes into the clay body to create the eyes. Others chose to use the conker itself as a snail shell, making the body of the snail from clay. They then found two small sticks that they could push into the clay as the eyes.
Many of the class went off to find the secret tunnel that they had discovered the last time they had Forest School. While making their way through the class discovers part of a rock just poking up out of the mud. Using trowels some of the children worked hard together to dig out this rock, as they dug they came across many worms. When they had found the bottom of the rock the children pushed their trowels under the rock and pushed up to lift if so that they could pull it together out the ground, great team work!
There was plenty of free play in the mud kitchen, with all kinds of food being made from natural materials. Other children chose to look under any log they could find on the hunt for some creepy crawlies. Under most of the logs what they found were many worms and
the occasional slug. The children were told about the importance of putting anything they find back where it came from and making sure that the logs were all turned back over to keep anything living under it safe.
