Sadly, this was our last week at Robin Wood and the weather was sunny but cold to start off with although it did get quite warm by the end of the morning, unlike last week where we had snow and hail!!
We finished off our focus of birds by understanding
the parts of the life cycle of birds. ‘Hatchlings’ are when the birds are born
and have no feathers. Then the feathers
appear and they are called ‘nestlings’.
After this, when they start to look for food, they are called 'fledglings'. We played a game where we had to be in our
nests of 5 fledglings and find as many worms as possible. Some of the worms were not good for the birds
and may have been poisonous (yellow and red wool). In our groups, we started
to hunt for healthy worms (green, brown and beige wool) all over Robin Wood to take them back to our nests.
When we got busy this week, we made jewellery and key
rings from Elder wood; there was a puppet show; a huge slide was built for the balls; some
of us had a go at lighting the fairy blankets with the Dragon sneezers and also
the amazing den making.
We lit a fire to cook a lovely treat of hot cross
buns on the open fire. After this we had
a quiet time for reflection before writing on a leaf something that we have
either enjoyed or learnt during this term at Forest Schools.
We, of course, finished with our favourite game of
Eagle Eyes.
We have learnt so much and experienced so many different activities during this term. It has been wonderful and a HUGE thank you to Mrs Waddell for making it so much fun and for giving us such lovely experiences where we have learnt so much and challenged ourselves.
