We had our teddy bears picnic in the woods. The children enjoyed using their adventure bags for the first time to carry their cuddly friends. When they got to the woods they found it decorated with the teddy bunting that they made and lots of picnic blankets. The Year Twos  had made teddy shaped jam sandwiches for snack and some children helped to make potato salad and pasta salad on the fire; including herbs from the school garden. At 11:30 we were joined by some young visitors and had our fish and chips in the forest. Nikki even made us teddy shaped biscuits for pudding. We enjoyed reading stories about bears, making teddy dens and playing with our friends in the woods. It was a lovely picnic.

We have been developing our science skills through exploring puddles. We used our prediction and observation skills as well as collaboration and problem solving to carry out our experiment. We learned that the playground has a slope, that a small container makes a small puddle and a large container makes a large puddle and that is the puddles got smaller in the sun after a while. It was lots of fun. 

We visited Sparkwell church to explore the features of a Christian place of worship. Once we found the location in the church we used iPads to take our own photographs.

We have been exploring the different materials that we could use to make our own bags out of. Today we were testing how they responded to water to see if they were waterproof and whether water made the material weak. We learned how to use pipettes, to tally big numbers and to make careful observations. We had fun but in the photographs we are concentrating hard!

We are going to be designing and making our own bags for taking on an adventure. Before we can design our own bags we had to test the designs of other bags and containers. We looked at the strength of the bags, whether we could carry out simple tasks and which one could hold our exploring equipment. Here we are trying to scramble over the obstacle course with our bags and boxes.