Forest School

Spring

Foundation Stage have been looking at different story tales. The children recently read 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. In forest school they focused on linking their activities to this story. The activities included making their own bear prints, making porridge in the mud kitchen and finding different items on the wildlife path to even create their own bear!!!

For 2Z forest school, children enjoyed three different activities.

They had a code breaker activity to complete by finding the wooden letters on the wildlife path. The code spelled out World Book Day.

Children were also able to use the things they found last week in the mud kitchen and they had a fabulous time making ‘pine cone soup’ and ‘mud pies and smoothies’.

The main activity this week was whittling twigs using a potato peeler.

Miss Lonsdale explained how sensible children had to be when using the peelers as they are very sharp. children had to make sure that they moved the peeler away from themselves when using them and that they wear a glove on their ‘helping hand’.

Year 2 - Miss Lonsdale showed us all of the places that we were and were not allowed to go.  She also showed us the trees that we could touch and climb and the ones that would prick or sting us.

She also explained how the wildlife path is home to many different species of minibeast and that we have to be very careful not to disturb or spoil their habitat.

Afterwards, we got to complete a scavenger hunt and collect items to be used in the mud kitchen next week.

At the end of the session, we got to play a big game of hide and seek.

Autumn

The children have been explore the area. They have been learning where the Forest School boundaries are and how to keep safe whilst at Forest School. They used red pegs to identify plants that may be prickly or dangerous that we need to avoid. They had lots of fun digging in the mud and playing hide and seek for our first session in the sunshine!

Year 1 and 4/5  have also have been exploring the area, identifying different plants that they need to aware of or stay away from. For example, nettles.

Different activities the children took part in were:

• Hide and seek
• Forest school 5 senses checklist.
• Collect materials to use our mud kitchen next week.
• Making names from natural materials
• Scavenger hunts