This week we spent our day on our forest school site. When we arrived, we quickly set up camp before spending the morning exploring. Some children were intrigued by the discovery of an eggshell. “It’s a baby bird egg but it’s empty. I wonder where it came from. It must be a nest!”. We searched around but were unable to spot a bird’s nest. We wondered if we continued exploring, we might find more clues. We continued our search and were amazed to find yet another eggshell. We wondered what type of bird may have hatched from it. Whilst some children enjoyed exploring the eggshells, the other group enjoyed using natural materials to build a fairy hotel. This included a pink roof and a cream carpet. The children were amazed to spot pink leaves but couldn’t work out where they had come from. Our forest school is amazing but does sometimes throw us some conundrums.
In the afternoon, we continued our explorations and discovered several log pile houses. Who could live there? Our mind went straight to the Gruffalo story. Who lives in the log pile house? A snake of course! We helped to develop the houses by adding more sticks. By the time we were finished, they were fine looking houses.
