The children listened to the story of ‘Leaf Man’ who goes where the wind blows. They each had a stick to take on their walk to the woods, onto which they pushed lots of different fallen autumn leaves. It was great to hear all of their maths vocabulary as they collected and walked. Counting leaves, comparing whether they had more than or less than each other and describing the sizes of the leaves.
Maple Class found oak leaves, birch, hawthorn, hazel, alder, beech and some mystery leaves, so they looked in our tree id book to try to discover more.
Once in the woods the children had a go at using palm drills to try to drill holes in chestnuts and pumpkins. The children showed good perseverance with drilling and then hammering natural found objects onto the pumpkins to make faces.
There was some great swinging, balancing on the slack line and puddle jumping this week!
A massive thanks to our volunteers who supported the children with all of their exploring and learning.
