This week was very, very hot so we decided to have a slow walk down to our forest school site. When we arrived we decided to set up our base. What would we need to achieve this? Firstly, we decided we would need something to sit on but what could we use? Auryn immediately suggested we use our tarpaulins to put on the ground. What a great idea! Auryn walked off to the trolley and returned with a tarpaulin. He attempted to lie it down himself but soon realised this would be a tricky job without some help. He began to direct the other children. "Come on everyone", "hold onto the side" and "you need to shake it" came the instructions. The children listened and everyone took a piece of fabric, pulled it out and then when ready placed it on the ground. We placed our bags and equipment on the top to secure the tarpaulin on the ground. Now that was ready it was time to explore!
We headed up around the swamp and onto the huge hill. We spotted holes in the ground, trees to climb and a huge pile of logs, where should we begin? The children began to experiment with different ways of moving up and down the hills. We ran, walked and rolled as we investigated which was the safest way to move around. We enjoyed climbing inside some of the trees and climbing high up into the branches.
Soon it was time for lunch and the hightlight of our day was almost here. The children chose to sit on the hill in smaller groups together rather than sit as one on the tarpaulin. Giggles and chatting could be heard around our site as the children talked amongst themselves. At that moment Lisa spotted something moving around just below us. It was an animal! A rather large animal! Anna and Arthur were shocked as they spotted it too. A huge deer had walked through our forest school site and was investigating our trolley! It walked slowly through our site before disappearing into the wilderness. We were all amazed! Once gone we headed down to see if we could spot it and although the deer was gone, it had left behind some huge paw prints.
The deer sighting had made our day and we couldn't wait to get back to nursery to share the news with our friends.
Summer Term - Week 4, Thursday 15th July 2021
This week was our fire week and the children had made some decisions about the type of food they would like to cook. On the menu was spaghetti with sausages and pancakes with melted chocolate on top. We also wanted to pick some of strawberries to try as they were now ready and looked very yummy! We picked them, cleaned them and then decided to pop them on top of our chocolatey pancakes. They were delicious! Our allotment strawberries are definitely the best we have tasted.
As the day moved on, the sun got hotter and hotter and hotter until we were so hot we decided to look for some shade in the shed. We chatted about our bodies and what we need to do to protect ourselves from the sun. The children were able to give ideas such as, wear a sun hat, wear sun cream and drink lots of water. They were great answers but it was now beginning to get even hotter! We decided our plants and vegetables would need lots of water so switched on the hose pipe and gave them a really good drink. Beatrice enjoyed running through the shower of water which was watering the plants and began dancing as the water rained down on her. Her peers joined in and before we knew it everyone was soaking wet and cooling down in the bright sunshine. What a fun day!