This afternoon we had Forest School in the pouring rain! Because it was so wet and rainy we enjoyed splashing in the puddles and some of the children found leaves to float down the pouring water stream created by the rain. It was so much fun! We then went into the hall to do lots of fun activities!
They started by playing a game of ‘guess the animal’ asking simple questions to try to discover what animal Dormouse had thought of.
During our last session the children had collected leaves and flowers and pressed them in the flower press. They talked about how the leaves would be too wet to use today and how the flower press had flattened them and dried them out.
The children used the flowers to create lovely collages of hedgehogs and then listened carefully to a story about a hedgehog. They talked about how they could do nice things for their friends, like the hedgehog did in the story.
Willows played a game of ‘rabbit, rabbit, fox’, taking it in turns to chase each other around a circle and try to get back to their space before they got caught by the fox.
The Impact of Forest School for the children is the knowledge the children have gained from the Forest School experience.
The impact can be seen through the skills, tools used, art and craft activities, observations and knowledge of the fruit, plants trees in relation to the fruit, plants and trees in relation to the seasons ans the skills involved in learning how to play Forest School Games.
Then the Willows talked about birds and how they needed food throughout the winter and then created some bird feeders. They carefully threaded cereal hoops onto pipecleaners and twisted the tops to make circular feeders to hang at home.
Willows ended their session by taking it in turns to share what they had enjoyed about their afternoon.
“I liked splashing in the muddy puddles”
“I liked making the bird feeder”
“I like the hedgehog picture”
