Squirrels enjoyed exploring icy puddles on the way to school on Monday so we thought we would try and make icy art on Monday afternoon ready to look at Tuesday morning. The results were amazing. They lasted most of the morning as well! Some children wanted to see if they could make frost angels and others just enjoyed looking at their creations. We even heard a woodpecker. We tried again on Tuesday night but it wasn’t quite cold enough. We learnt a lot about changing materials though. 

We met lots of animals on the farm. We stroked a turkey, looked at a sheep’s teeth, watched a cow lick it’s nose, met the piglets and listened to the sound of 500 turkeys!

We looked for patterns and colours on the animals at the zoo. We liked the sunbathing meerkats!

We made soup. We called it Rainbow Soup. It was called Rainbow Soup because it had nearly all of the colours of the rainbow in it. Red was pepper and tomato, orange was carrot, yellow was pepper and sweet corn, green was courgette and broccoli and red onions because they look purple. We all tasted it. Not everybody liked it but some of us did. We had to cut up vegetables and peel vegetables. Charlie and Olivia did the washing up.  By Lauren and Oscar 

We are so lucky to have this amazing learning environment next to our little school. The children have had a wonderful time exploring the woods again and looking for signs of Autumn. Blackberries have been picked and shared (and used as paint!) fungus has been found and puddles splashed in. We can’t wait for more forest fun.