This term Year 2 have been exploring:
How to make a reef knot (micky mouse ear, flip it, mickey mouse ear and flip it, the second ear goes behind the first ear, put the loop around the stick and pull tight.)
- how to stay safe in a storm (we had one of our sessions inside)
- conker painting, spider web weaving, wand and broomstick making for Halloween
- mud play and bridge building on our very wet days
- building paper houses and watching them catch on fire like they did in the 'Great Fire of London'
- bats! Children walked around and learned some facts, e.g. 'The bat is the only flying mammal'. We played the bat game - remembering that bats use ecolocation to find their food, we found hidden bats and made a bat from sticks and cardboard
- filling up the polytunnel with fresh top soil - using so many muscles!
- using a saw to make a wooden class door sign, first cutting it, sanding it and then designing it.
- signs of winter with our scavenger hunt
- mushrooms - so many mushrooms to look at and identify!
- using a peeler, hammer and a palm drill to create Christmas craft
- cooking apple slices over the fire, dipped in sugar and cinnamon - we talked about the sugar caramelising, we even saw a big green flame when sugar and cinnamon had fallen into the fire.
- foxes...we had captured some real fox videos in our Forest School area in the summer which we looked at.
What a fabulous outdoor term - have a great Christmas break everyone.
Forest School Year 2 Term 2 - 2023
