This term the children have been learning how to identify droppings belonging to different animals found in the British countryside. They have worked toegether as a class to match pictures of animals with pictures of their droppings. We discussed what they thought their animal would eat to help them match the correct diet to the correct
animal.
The children have also made their own animal droppings by mixing compost, flour and water together until it was nice and sticky. Then they added straw, grass and other natural materials to recreate the pictures they had looked at in class.
The children in Willows have also had the opportunity to have a look at a selection of native animal bones. The bones were passed around the group so everyone could see them up close, see what they felt like and to feel the weight of some of them. The children were particularly impressed by the size of the antlers on one of the deer skulls and how the bottom jaw on the badger skull was still attached and able to open and shut.
Our new bug hotel has been looking a little empty. The children worked together to fill it with a selection holey bricks, pipes, pots and natural materials that they have gathered
from our Forest School site. It is now looking much more inviting!
After all the recent wet weather, there is rather a lot of mud! This has allowed the children to do some amazing creative cooking in the mud kitchen. The children have
also had the opportunity to practice their balancing skills on the slack-line and have enjoyed taking it in turns to push each other on the tyre swing.
The Impact of Forest School for the children is the knowledge the children have gained from the Forest School experience, this can be seen through the skills gained, tools used, art and craft activities, observations and knowledge of the fruit, plants and trees in relation to the seasons.
Oaks Forest School
Willows Forest School
