Bears@taddy

Today the Bears took full advantage of our woodland to plan their stories in the shade. The children have been planning their very own stories based on our class book, ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett. 

 On Wednesday the reception children enjoyed their trip to Chatsworth. We spent some time exploring the house, building and developing our teamwork in the sand area and of course spending lots of time with the animals. I think the guinea pigs were the firm favourite! 

 

 The Bears have started their new book 'Lost and found' by Oliver Jeffers where the boy takes the lost penguin back to the North Pole on a boat. We decided to make our own boats during Forest Schools this afternoon.  We split into 2 groups, one group made a large scale boat, big enough for the whole group to fit in. The other learnt about some of the tools that we use in Forest schools and started to make our own wooden boat. We started by sawing the wood using a bill hook. We then split the wood into two pieces, using a bill hook and mallet. Then we started to whittle the shape of the boat using potato peelers and sheeth knives. I'm really looking forward to continuing this project- there's going to be some masterpieces.