Category : Science

What a morning F2 have had in Forest school!

It has been a VERY wet day!!! But that didn’t stop us from having fun outside! In fact it made for even more fun!!!

We had so much fun singing, dancing and jumping in the rain! It felt good to play and dance and let our hair down outside! Taking in all the smells, noises and feels of the rain! We loved jumping in muddle puddles and doing the ‘rain dance‘ getting silly and wiggling and moving our bodies!

We then took a stroll to Mrs Buss secret hide out where she told us about a fairy forest, a little baby forest that was just starting to grow and come to life! Because of this we needed to tread with care and make sure we didn’t pick any of the plants or flowers starting to grow, as this wouldn’t allow for the forest to grow bigger or look after all the creatures starting to live and hide in it!

We went on a very quiet fairy walk through the magical forest but unfortunately didn’t spot any fairies today (must have been the rain!!!) only little creatures like slugs, spiders and ladybirds hiding! To encourage the fairies to come out to play we did play some games, hide and seek and ‘go find it!’ This was lots of fun and we were very good at finding the best hiding places!

What a fabulous, wet and adventurous day! We have loved every minute of it… and apparently the best bit was letting out all our noise to howl like wild wolves!!! Until next time…

F2 have been over the moon this week that their little tiny eggs have FINALLY HATCHED! We have welcomed into the world eight beautiful baby chicks, all different colours and all with very different personalities!

It has been amazing to watch these babies hatch and to care for them as they have grown. Today we got to all have a hold for the first time, learning how to hold, look after and take care of these little tiny delicate creatures! We have learnt a lot about chickens the past few weeks and the life-cycle of egg to chick! We have had deep discussions about how to look after all living things in the world and how animals and insects are so important and need us to be gentle and kind. We have loved the warm and fluffy cuddles this afternoon and I know we will all be very sad to see them go when it’s time to go back to their farm…

This morning in assembly, Mrs Buss talked to the whole school about ‘World Bee Day’ and the importance of Bee’s to the worlds ecosystem and how they help to pollinate our trees, flowers and even food! We need bee’s to help grow the vegetables and food we eat and they play a vital role in the worlds food chains!

Unfortunately most of the species of bees in this country are in decline and have now become labelled as endangered. We spoke about what we could do to help bees (not hurt them, offer sugary food for rest, create wildflower patches, build bee houses) and chatted about being kind to all living things.

The children in Foundation Stage have been busily creating a ‘wildflower space’ since last Summer and today we spotted lots of signs of bee activity there! This was lovely to see and the children enjoyed just sitting and watching the bees busily go about their day helping the plants!

We noticed, like Mrs Buss said, that the bees particularly took a liking to our blue and purple wildflowers as that’s their favourite colour! We can’t wait to build some bee houses over the next few weeks in Forest School and Nature Club… watch this space!

The children in F2 have been very ‘egg-cited’ today to welcome our new visitors for the next few weeks…’The Chicks!’… or ‘Eggs’ at the moment! We are so lucky to have 24 eggs with us, keeping cozy and warm in their comfy incubators. We had a chat about what we think might happen over the next few weeks (20 days) and what changes we might start to see. We also talked about how the eggs will hopefully hatch and how they will begin to grow into one day…chickens! We discussed growth and how we also change just like the eggs and chickens. We also talked for a long time about looking after the eggs/chicks and how to look after animals and take good care of things. I think we are all going to be very good at helping out over the next few weeks and hopefully we will have lots of baby chicks to share with you soon! Stay posted for baby updates…