Squirrels and Hedgehogs at Forest School

This afternoon Squirrels and Hedgehogs went to Forest School together, as we had assembly practice in the morning. We took Mrs Guest with us and showed her how to play 123 Where Are You - it was difficult to find everyone as they hid so well!

Some of us made smelly cocktails using leaves, mud and berries that had fallen from the trees - some of them snelt lovely but others reminded us of smelly socks! The other group tried to find as many different coloured leaves as they could - they were surprised to find brown, green, yellow, red, black and purple - and lots of different shades.

Mrs Guest really enjoyed her afternoon and can't wait until she can come again.

Making Shapes

Today at Forest School we collected lots of different leaves - we found big ones, small ones, loads of beautiful colours and some had been eaten by the animals.





We piled them all up in base camp then Mrs Long asked us to make some shapes in our groups - she whispered the shape to make so that the other groups didn't hear then they had to try and guess which shape we'd made.




All the groups worked really well together and made brillaint shapes - it was quite hard to keep the leaves in the shape as it was a bit windy!


Can you see what shapes we made?

Rainbows

We decided to see how many different colours we could find in Forest School - we thought we'd find brown, green, red, orange and yellow but we were surprised to find some blues and purples on some leaves, and Charlie found a stone with every colour on it! We made some rainbows with our different colours and shades - aren't they fantastic!

Smelly Cocktails

Today at Forest School we made smelly cocktails by taking ' a pinch' from things we found in the area - we used mud, leaves, bark, grass and berries and mixed them all up together - what wonderful smells! Some were very lovely smells and others weren't quite so sweet! The children then named their creations and they had to think really hard - we had mushy mud, blueberry muffin, minty grass, strawberry surprise and smelly sock - guess which one didn't smell so good!

Rain and Mud!

Today at Forest School it was 2LG's turn to go out - Squirrels in the morning and Hedgehogs in the afternoon.

In the morning it rained but we decided that we would only get wet and could soon dry so we explored anyway. We looked for leaves and were brilliant detectives, finding the right trees and directing Mrs Long and Mrs Rimmer back to show them! We had chance to play 123 Where Are You where we tried to hide and be really quiet - that was hard! We had fruit and milk and Mrs Long told us a story about why the leaves change colour in the autumn.
Some of us played in the mud pit and got very muddy and wet but we all had a really good time.

In the afternoon the rain had gone but it was still very muddy which was great slipping and sliding around.Hedgehog group played 123 Where Are You and Mrs Long had a turn at hiding - Aston knew she'd hid a long way from base camp because it was difficult to hear her, but we managed to find her! They were leaf detectives too, and also had their PSHE lesson outside where everyone found their favourite place and took a photo - you can see these on our class blog page.







Leaf Detectives



Spider near base camp




Digging in the mud pit




Exploring Forest School




Under the tree branches




Do you think it's this tree?




Leaf Hunting