Today the children have been very busy exploring the park. We were all amazed by how long the grass was and at how many flowers had grown. We spotted lots of buttercups, daisies and cow parsley. One child found a very tall buttercup. It was even tall enough for him to smell it standing up!

The other children continued to add to the fairy house they had created the week previously. They were amazed it hadn’t blown down. “Let’s see if we can blow it down” suggested one child. The children huffed and puffed but they couldn’t blow down the little house of sticks. We decided to hold an experiment to work out why the house would not blow down. We pushed a stick firmly into the ground and tried to blow it down. Jenny pointed out that we couldn’t blow it down because it was to far down into the ground. We tried it again but this time didn’t push the stick as far into the ground. Again, we attempted to blow down the stick but it would not budge. Jenny picked up the stick and pushed it down into a softer part of the ground and explained “its because the soil is too hard there and you need softer soil and not too deep and then it will blow down”. Sure enough, the children blew and down blew the stick! What an experiment!

A big interest today was fire! The children decided to build their own fires using lots of broken sticks lying around park. They sprinkled yellowing leaves across the top of the sticks which acted as flames. Toby pointed out that they needed to rub two sticks together to create a spark for their fire. He got to work collecting two large sticks which he began rubbing together. “There you go!” declared Toby once he had lit the fire with his sticks.