This week the children have continued their explorations in the forest. The children have been interested in climbing, balancing and finding different ways to move around the woodland. This helps the children to develop confidence in the space as well as developing physical skills, spacial awareness and risk assessing.
The children are intrigued by sticks and what they can be used for. This week we planned to create fishing rods which the children used in the river to catch fish. We caught a Nemo fish, a Dory fish and some tuna fish which was lucky because we needed something tasty for our lunch!
The interest in sticks continued and the children began to explore the height of sticks. Some children tried to find the longest sticks possible and began to measure them against their friend but who could find a stick taller than a grownup? After a lot of mathematical learning the children began to use their sticks in different ways. We added some to our den, we reached up high as we attempted to touch the tallest trees and some were even used as swords!
