Squirrels set off in the Autumn sunshine on the hunt for as many different shaped leaves as they could find. Working in small groups they gathered their leaves, then matched them to leaf outlines on their ID sheet to work out what trees their leaves belonged to. While on their hut for leaves the children came across some that were larger than their faces, these turned out to be leaves from a fig tree. The class also noticed hat the leaves came in many different colours, one that was found was red and yellow and the child said “I found a red dragon leaf”.
Using clay some of the class chose to make leaf prints with the leaves that they had found on the Autumn leaf hunt. They rolled themselves a ball of clay which they then squashed out flat, one of the leaves they found was then placed back down onto the clay and carefully rolled. As the leaf was peeled away it left behind the imprint of the leaf in the clay.
Some children chose to dig for treasure! As they dug into the ground they came across all sorts of different rocks these findings became their treasure. Others came across many worms, they used the excess soil that they had dug up to fill a saucepans making their own mini worm houses.
A few members of the class found some old Daffodil bulbs in some tiny pots and decided to do some planting. However first needed to fill the new pallet planter with soil, making sure to line it with something first so that the soil would not escape. Once this was done they children looked carefully at each bulb in its pot to see if they could see any green growth, they managed to find eight to plant. They then carefully pulling the bulbs from their pots and planted them into their new home, as it was pulled out one child said “look at the roots!”.
