This week at forest school, the children continued their investigation into which animals may live in the forest. As soon as we entered the woodland, we spotted signs of life. One child pointed to a huge, long worm which was moving across the ground and as it was ‘World Book Day’, clearly it must have been SUPERWORM! We left the worm to continue its day and off we went to our site. On the way we spotted a deep, dark hole in the hill. The children thought about what could live in it and the consensus was it must be a rabbit hole. The children were right, it was indeed a rabbit hole. We have lots of rabbit holes dotted around our site and a sighting of a rabbit confirmed this to us.
We moved onto our site where we spotted lots of clues as to what might live there. There was a pile of feathers on the ground, some droppings, holes and footprints. The footprints were strange and definitely did not belong to a person or a dog. After some further investigation into size and shape of the prints, we finally decided they must belong to a deer! We thought we best sneak through the woodland just incase the deer were still there. They weren’t however one of the children did spot something rather amazing, a scarlet elf cup! Wow, it was beautiful. We also discovered lots of other different fungi which we had never spotted before. As investigators, we will be looking at these more closely in the hope of identifying them. We found a very strange fungus growing on a tree. The children thought it looked like a rabbits tail or even cotton wool! They were right. It did!
The children started to think about the other animals may live in the forest and one of the children immediately suggested a tiger! They had even spotted the tigers tail! Everyone thought maybe it was the ‘tiger who came to tea’ and maybe he was searching for our lunch. We ensured our lunch bags were wrapped in a tarpaulin so they were completely camouflaged. No tiger was going to get the better of us.
As we continued our search for evidence of animals, we visited, what we hope may be either a badger set or a fox den and found some footprints. We have sent these off to be identified and are very excited to find out what may be living on our site. We will do some more investigating next week!
Standing on the top of the biggest hill at forest school, the children were sure they had spotted that sneaky tiger beside our lunch bags. The tarpaulin covering them suddenly started to move. Could it be that pesky tiger looking for tea? We carefully and quietly walked towards the bags. Lisa and Kirsty carefully lifted back the tarpaulin………. but there was no tiger there. Had he already eaten our lunch? Thankfully not, so we all sat down together to eat a delicious lunch as we listened to the magical sounds of the forest.