Forest School News

2nd December 2019

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Cranberry decorations
 
Today, both Oaks and Rowans children enjoyed using cranberries and elder sticks to make these lovely decorations.
 
They needed to concentrate hard, as pushing the wire through the cranberries was very tricky!
 
We also had a go at making Autumnal faces and really enjoyed using this wooden board to be creative with coloured bands…we counted, named colours, made and named shapes, copied patterns and practised fine motor control.
 
And  look at us exploring dens, using fabulous climbing and balance skills and generally having a brilliant time in Forest School!
 
Soup..and a fire
 
Today Beeches class helped to build a fire and cook some tomato soup. We started off our morning by looking at and talking about the different sorts of sticks we would need for our fire…then everyone helped to sort out piles of sticks. We looked at how thick the sticks were, and placed them into the correct buckets…
 
Once the sticks were sorted, we gathered around the log circle and  had a go at using the fire sticker to make a spark…
 
Once the sticks were sorted, we gathered around the log circle and  had a go at using the fire sticker to make a spark…
 
Once the fire was ready to cook on, we opened some soup and poured it into our big dutch oven. We put it on the fire and waited for it to warm up. It didn’t take very long!
 
We enjoyed drinking the  soup…it was delicious!