This week at forest school we walked along to our orange river. The children have been fascinated by the colour of this part of the river for weeks now and today we decided to engage in some scientific exploration. The children thought about what colour the water was and why. There was a lot of different theories, maybe someone had put food colouring into the river, paint was another guess and carrots another. We all guessed if we took some water out of the river, it would be orange but to our surprise it was ‘water colour’ as one child put it. This truly astounded the children. We knew we had more research to take part in.

As we walked deeper into our forest, we found a huge fallen tree which the children enjoyed navigating. We tried different ways of moving around, over and under the tree.