On the way to Forest School Maple Class each collected a rainbow selection of flowers and plants, inspired by the story of ‘Noah’s Ark’ they had learned in RE this morning. They collected buttercups, cow parsley, speedwell, oak leaves, herb robert, clover, daisies, grasses, holly, garlic mustard and many, many more. It was great to see the children working together and looking out for missing colours or flowers, so they could all collect a full rainbow.
We took a jar of cream along the way to try to create butter, inspired by the buttercups. The children took it in turns to shake the jar furiously throughout the afternoon and in the end, they tasted their butter with crackers and rice cakes on the bench where they sit to rest and climb the fence to look at the sheep and lambs! It turns out the buttercups were correct – they do all like butter!
On the way to the woods, Maple Class played a game of ‘Owl eyes’, where they had to hide in the buttercups in the meadow. They were excellent at hiding amongst the great swathes of buttercups.
Maple Class spent lots of time swinging on the tree swings and exploring in the stream, getting their feet very muddy, despite the dry weather, and moving lots of logs from the stream together. They acted out stories on the bridge, telling the story of the ‘Billy goats gruff’ in their own way and acting it out with great teamwork and expression!
