by Ellie | Sep 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
A colour hunt is probably the simplest scavenger hunt to do! We used cardboard from a few boxes. Made them into board shapes. Added colour dots and words. Grabbed the tape and off we went! It is fabulous when children are able to go off in all directions hunting for...
by Ellie | Sep 9, 2021 | Musings, Thursday Thoughts
Look what we have been finding!! Frogs and Toads!!! So we started to read the storybook Frog and Toad! (We have the compendium style book!) I do LOVE these stories, they help each other, cheer each other up and on and are great friends who have a few little adventures...
by Ellie | Sep 2, 2021 | Woodworking with kids
Recently in our sessions some of the children have shown an interest in making traps. Not just track traps, but actual traps. So out came the survival books!! We looked through the books and the children choose a couple of traps to make! Working as teams they used bow...
by Ellie | Aug 31, 2021 | Sustainable Living
We grow all sorts of things here on the smallholding! Veggies in the raised beds and Polytunnel. We have a 50 tree multi fruit orchard. A fruit cage full of berries (although that looks like a rewilding project at the moment) However at each end of our fruit cage we...
by Ellie | Aug 30, 2021 | nature curriculum
One of the benefits to growing a lot of our own produce here is that we have lots of beasties to then explore for Forest school and Outdoor Learning sessions! This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Definitely one of those book up there on the...
