This week we welcomed a brand new group of children to forest school and wow, what adventures we had! We started our day discussing our forest school promises and learning about the environment. We wanted to find the big pond and it took quite a while but on our way we spotted some blackberries, an apple tree and a silver birch! We spotted a large branch sticking out of the ground. Some of the children decided to try and pull it out but it was stuck! Even teamwork couldn’t get the branch out of the ground but it did create lots of conversation, negotiation and compromise.
After lunch, the children discover something they had never seen before, a large, deep, dark hole. What sort of animal could have made the hole? The children had some excellent guesses. Could it be a mouse, a vole, a badger, a fox or a rabbit? We started to look for clues and that is when we spotted another hole! This one was very similar to the other one so we decided it must have been the same creature who made it. We spotted some rabbit poo and the children concluded that it was definitely a rabbit home!
