This week we took a brand-new group to forest school and what an adventure it was! From the minibus we observed the moon which one child thought was following us all the way to forest school. After disappearing behind some clouds our focus turned to the beautiful blue sky and the wind and wow was it windy! We observed the clouds moving quickly across the sky and the leaves falling from the trees. Autumn really is on its way!

One of the children decided he wanted to spot three squirrels. One orange, one red and one white. We looked all around us, in the trees overhead and up the hills but we couldn’t spot any squirrels. Suddenly, swinging from the trees like an acrobatic was a big grey squirrel! We were all thrilled. After a picnic we headed to the troll bridge. The children decided whether they wanted to cross the bridge loudly or quietly. Some stamped and shouted whilst others tiptoed as they sneaked across. What fun we had trying to work out if the troll had spotted us.

Time to head back to nursery and what a busy day it had been. We had lots of tired little legs and it took quite a while to get back to the path towards the minibus. The children were a little sad they hadn’t spotted a reindeer but just as we headed up the track, there through the trees we spotted a huge ‘daddy’ deer. What a way to end our day!