This week we had our 4th visit to the forest but this was a very special one as our friends from our partner nursery, Drumshee, were joining us. The children always love showing off 'their' forest to the other children who only go on this joint visit. We were also excited to have Level 3 Forest School leader, Anna McCoy come along to show the children how to whittle.
It was a tight squeeze to fit all 50 children into the seated area for snack but we just about managed! Windmill provided the biscuits & Drumshee brought the fruit. After everyone had had some snack, those who wanted to learn how to whittle stayed to listen to Anna explain all the safety rules for using the peelers. She had brought some lovely fresh willow to try whittling with.
My class enjoyed showing the Drumshee children where everything was & I think once again, that Teletubbie Hill proved the most popular spot. It was a beautiful morning & you wouldn't have known there were 50 children & over 10 adults in the woodland classroom. The children & parent volunteers enjoyed sitting quietly concentrating on learning to whittle.
Many were determined to climb a tree & were delighted to find a suitable one, they took turns getting up & down & pretending to be the owl babies sitting on their branches waiting for mummy to return.
On the way back to the bus we stopped to feed the ducks in the frozen pond - but they had obviously eaten too well over the weekend & weren't too interested in our bread.
We have one more visit to the Peatlands Woodland School & we will have our Easter Egg Hunt next month, then we start our trips to the 'big forest' at An Creagán.
There were lots of great posts linked up in the last outdoor play party but my favourite had to be the wonderful post with a short video of the twins enjoying a muddy puddle from Two of Everything. The sheer joy of these 2 little ones is just such a pleasure to watch.
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I've done the same mistake with my link up!!!! Put my name instead of the post name!! Can I relink? It should say Spring Hunt, must still be feeling the effects of the hospital procedure I had yesterday! Sorry
ReplyDeleteLove the whittling, when you say peelers what are they like as I would love to try this with the boys and must it be on willow? Looked like great fun thanks for the inspiration.
Hi Nanette - hope you are feeling better. You can delete the link & add it again if you want.
DeleteThe peelers are just straight vegetable peelers & any soft/green wood in good. I got mine from Mindstretchers & they are great & easy to use. Anna had other ones from a different company that she felt weren't as easy to use.
I love your woodland expeditions, the children always look to be having so much fun there. Lovely sunshine for you this time too!
ReplyDeleteIt was perfect weather indeed, Fiona.
Deletethose children have the best time in your nursery - what great activities to learn about and watch. i especially love them climbing the trees pretending to be baby owls x
ReplyDeleteHi Jenny, thanks again for the comments & support. It was a brilliant day, perfect weather for being outside.
DeleteI love all the kids waiting patiently for the duck...with the bits of bread ready to be eaten. What a great outing.
ReplyDeleteOh so typical, normally I don't have enough bread to give the kids a chance to throw it & this time when I did, the ducks were too full!! But they enjoyed sitting watching them on the ice anyway.
DeleteLovely weather and lovely fun.they looked like they had a ball x.
ReplyDeleteThey did & it was such lovely weather too. x
DeleteLoving that your kids liked to show the others round. Also liked the duck feeding, I'm hoping as the weather warms up we'll be doing a bit more of that
ReplyDeleteOh I know, I am tired of this cold, cold weather! Roll on Spring x
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