Forest School News

18th November 2019

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Stick Sorting
 
Beeches started their afternoon out in the  woods, with a story today…
 
We LOVE stick man! And really enjoyed hearing about all the different things stick man became in the story.

Next, we all worked together to find different sorts of sticks from around the Forest School site.
 
We looked for tiny sticks…bendy sticks
 
Long sticks, thick sticks, straight sticks…bumpy, smooth and Y-shaped sticks!
 
We looked at all the different piles of sticks, and estimated which we thought had the most in…then counted to check whether we were right!
 
It’s all about the leaves…
 
Oaks had a great morning today, appreciating the autumnal colours and using leaves both to be creative and to develop their fine motor skills. We made these lovely bookmarks using different leaf shapes and colours, buds, feathers and sticks…and enjoyed a bit of leaf threading too!
 
We always love a bit of exploring and music making out in the woods and today was no exception…
 
Leaf hunting and threading with Rowans
 
What a beautifully crisp Autumnal morning we had today. Rowans started their morning hunting through the woods, looking for different leaf pictures. We found leaves from a holly, oak, birch, elder, sycamore and hazel tree…
 
We collected all the leaf cards together and had a look…
 
Then, to keep us moving and active in the cold weather, we walked around the woods, looking for lots of different leaves to thread onto a string. The children were encouraged to look for different colours, shapes and sizes…
 
The strings of different leaves looked lovely when they were complete…
 
And as always, we had time too, to decide what else to do. Aside from a muddy meal and turn taking in the hammock, lots of fun was had in the  playhouse today, where we re-enacted the story of the 3 little pigs…complete with wolf and piggy voices and lots of laughter!