Very Muddy session!

Squelching in the mud.

More mud! 

Mud surfing.

Reception Forest School

Making seats at bease camp

Bugs!!!

Hedgehogs

Mrs Long had been given a letter from someone called Spike which she brought to to Forest School today. Spike was getting ready to hibernate and needed our help to keep him warm. Mrs Long explained that hibernation meant that Spike would be sleeping through the winter until the spring when it got warmer and he needed some help to make him a home to sleep in. In the letter it told us lots of things about Spike and his family - where he liked to sleep, what he looked like and what sort of things he liked to eat and we guessed that he was a hedgehog.

Luckily there were plenty of leaves, sticks and mud that we used to make a home for Spike and his family - we made sure the house was away from the path so Spike wouldn't get trodden on, but near the mud pit as there are plenty of worms for Spike to eat when he wakes up as we though he'd be really hungry!

Mud!

Forest School was very, very muddy today! It had been raining all over the weekend and the mud pit and paths were very squidgy. We had great fun sliding down the paths - Emily tried not to fall over as she didn't have waterproofs on like we did.

Some of us got a bit muddy playing in the mud pit, but it all washed off!!

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!