Foxes set off on a soggy morning for a Forest School adventure in the woods. They worked together to carry the boxes of equipment and to pull the trolley to the woods, this was not easy as the path to Forest School was rather slippery. Along the way the class noticed how big some of the fallen leaves were on the woodland floor. They picked them up and measured them against their faces, many of the long Sweet Chestnut leaves were bigger than their faces. One child said \u201cI think that it\u2019s bigger than my arm\u201d, using the leaf we measured it and it turned out that the leaf was as long as their arm.<\/p>\n
Once in the woods a group of children chose to create a den between two fallen tree trunks. Working together they gathered long and shorter poles of wood, laying them across the tree trunks to make the roof. They then decided to add leaves to the top to make it more camouflaged, however they found that the leaves fell through. To solve this problem the group packed lumps of muddy clay onto of the roof first, when asked what they were doing they said \u201cthe mud will help the leaves stick to the roof\u201d. This method was very effective.<\/p>\n
With the ground being so nice and soft many of the class chose to do some form of digging. Some dug holes and said they were looking for diamonds, gathering buckets of water that they then used to flush out the holes in the hunt for treasure. Others dug out the mud in lumps and as the mud is very much like clay the children were able to make things from it. One group created a line of mud ducks that sat all the way up a log. Whereas others used the mud to fix the ends of a ladder that they had made between two trees, spreading the mud up the trees that made the sides of their ladder so that they could stick leaves to it as decoration.<\/p>\n
While digging in the mud Foxes class came across a Bumble Bee that was hiding underground for the winter. The children carefully took a closer look at the Bumble Bee pointing out how hairy she was before placing her under a log and covering her with leaves to keep her safe.<\/p>\n
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