We set off to Forest School on the school field, getting into small groups to have a go at a spring scavenger hunt. The class worked really well in their groups to look for the things on their sheet “I found a slug”. One of the items to look for was something that flies, there were many birds flying over the field, the children pointed out that some were big and some were small. One child said “I am going to jump high and catch it with a net”.
In small groups we went into the pond to see if they could catch some of the creatures living beneath the water. We first talked about how to be safe when by the pond, how we must always lay on our tummies when dipping our nets in the water. The children started dipping their nets, pulling them out to see if they can see anything wiggling inside their nets “I have caught slime”. Everything that was caught was put into a tray of pond water, the children then used an ID sheet to work out what they had caught. One net that was pulled out was really full of blanket weed, as the child looked in they suddenly shouted “I caught a dragon”. They had managed to catch two Newts, these were popped into the tray and shown to the rest of the class. As the tray was clear we were able to lift it up so that the children could look at the colour of the Newts tummy “it’s orange”.
Other children chose to take buckets to collect water so that they could water the tree that was moved by Owls class last week. They then sprinkled some wild flower seeds in the mud around the tree to grow flowers for the bees.
There were some beautiful leaf printed pictures created. The children first walked round gathering leaves of different shapes and sizes, they then added some paint to the back of the leaf and popped it face down onto the paper, carefully rubbing it and peeling it off to leave an imprint of the leaf on the paper.
