We started off our session with a game of ‘keeper of the keys’ on the playground; the class decided it was really tricky to run in wellies. Owl’s class then set of for a morning in the woods. We stopped to climb the dinosaur tree, trying to get everyone on, unfortunately there was not enough space.
Once in the woods we talked about what we might see growing in the woods at this time of year. Lots of fungi and mushrooms, we talked about how it is not ok to pick or eat anything we find at forest school as it could make us poorly.
Today we were building dens from natural materials. The children set off to find a good place to build a den then working as a team they carried lots of fallen trees and started construction, sometimes two children to a log to make it easier to carry. When the main part of the den was built they gathered lots of pine branches for the roof “we need more to fill in all the gaps”.
Some of the children helped to put up the slack line, working hard to tighten the ratchet making sure it was nice and tight. They started with one at a time working on balancing along the slack line.
This then changed to many children on the line wobbling it to see who could be that last one standing.
As it was a little chilly today, Owls class enjoyed a hot chocolate in the woods, all settling on the fallen tree enjoying something warm.
We finished the session with woodland whisper ‘yummy hot chocolate’, unfortunately it was a little different by the time it made it to that last child.
