Despite the weather doing its best to work against us, we managed to go to the forest for our hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows. We sang a couple of Christmas songs, before returning to the warmth of our classroom.
We are looking at different materials. We retold the story of the three little pigs who made their houses out of different materials. We then made houses for our little pigs. Straw proved very hard to build with.
A house of sticks
A house of bricks
This morning we predicted items that would float or sink. We then found then items in the woods and tested our predictions.
We collected some very pretty Autumn leaves and turned them into crowns.
We used directional language to move around the playing field, north, south, east and west and left and right.
In smaller groups, we used directional language to move around the school, plotting the grid references on our maps and marking where we had been.
Making tree spirits and woodland animals using clay.
We are learning to identify trees by their leaves.
We can find the leaves that match the trees on our playground.
We tried using size but it does not always help us
This our newly planted oak tree and it is a lot smaller than the other oak trees but e found that the shape of the tree can help us to identify it.
Today in forest school we recorded the weather and discussed which season it is. We walked around the school grounds looking for seasonal changes.
Acorns on the oak trees
Blackberry and sloes
We ended the session with shelter building, playing in the mud kitchen, fairy picnics and wand making.
We had a visitor to the woods too
