The children were very excited to finally get back to Forest School. Our day began with a discussion about what we would need for our forest adventure. We packed a trolley with food, water, shelter, string and our trusty First Aid kit.

As we headed down into the forest some of the children were able to recall the area, routes and dangers. As we got deeper and deeper into the forest, we spotted some red marks on the ground. A worker told us that they were searching our forest for electricity. We were able to follow a track of red marks all the way down into the forest. We were amazed that there was electricity in the woodland. We wondered why it was there.

We discovered a new path which we had never seen before. We followed it down to a small river where the children decided to work for the day. We began to experiment with different ways of crossing the river. Some areas were shallow enough for us to walk across, another required stepping stones, another a bridge and another was just too deep, which some of the children discovered.

After extending our existing knowledge on depth we were surprised by some differing weather. We experienced hail, snow, rain and finally sunshine. It’s very difficult building a shelter in these types of weather but we succeeded because as we say in preschool…. “team work makes the dream work”.

On our way back to Nursery we chatted about our day while Hugh had a lovely snooze!