On Thursday 11th January Cherry Class set off for the woods on a sunny but rather chilly afternoon in search of some tracks made by animals and it wasn’t long before they came across some frozen in the mud!
Using their identification sheets the class decided that what they found belonged to a dog.
A little further on they came across some deer tracks and also lots of boot prints!
There was a lot of ice around today which Cherry Class had great fun jumping on to crush the ice.
As they walked along the Forest Way someone spotted something in the field “look, a big frozen puddle”.
The class then threw sticks trying to hit the icy puddle, a few of the sticks made it that far and slid along the ice.
On arrival at the Forest Site, Cherry class were really keen to get going, wanting to check out he stream and see if it was frozen. It was not frozen but had a good steam of water running down it and a group of children decided to build a bridge over it. They worked as a team to place two logs from one side of the bank to the other and then filled in the gap with more logs going the other way. They then made what they called “cement” from mud and water, which was laid it over the wood.
They plan to check on it next time to see if the mud has gone hard!
Some children chose to make pipe cleaner bird feeders by threading Cheerios and hanging the finished feeders in the trees. While they made them they looked at pictures of some of the birds that can be found in the wood, and the number of the birds they could correctly identify was impressive.
Others looked at stones with pre-cast animal foot prints on, working out what animal the foot print belonged to, then used clay and stones to create their own, pushing the stones into the clay to make the animal prints.
The session finished with a woodland whisper when all agreed a little more practice is needed to avoid the muddled message that reached the end!
