This week the children talked about the changes they had seen in the environment.
“Some of the trees look golden!”
“They are so many colours, re and brown and greeny yellow, and the tree trunks look black over there”
Cherry Class are learning about what happens where they live, so have been thinking about the Ashdown Forest, Winnie the Pooh and the village of Hartfield. They spent time looking at maps of the village before they went to the woods and learned how to identify some features of the maps.
We took maps out with us and learned about the directions of North, South, East and West.
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, art and craft activities, observations and knowledge of the fruit, plants trees in relation to the seasons and the skills involved in learning how to play Forest School games.
The children used some of the natural resources in the woods to create their own maps. Some aligned them with North pointing the correct way and added features such as trees to their 3D creations.
There was also time to explore the ropes and bridges, hammocks and swings, before Cherry Class help act out a story ‘Hike’ with actions. They were great at pretending to leek at maps, walk up hills and climb mountains! Well done Cherry Class.
