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Butterflies
Pupils played butterfly games; racing as caterpillars, changing into pupae, then flying off as butterflies. We then all went into the forest school area, where, we found natural things around our site and made our own butterflies on the ground.
Insects
Today we started with two special insect songs and learnt about what insects have. Head, thorax, abdomen, antennae and 3 pairs of legs.
Later in the forest School area we made some insects of our own with clay and what we found around us.
Some of us helped take the pond weed off the top of the pond too.
Bluebells
Today we looked at bluebells as they are out in he woods now. Firstly, we played ‘in and out the dusty bluebells’. Then, bluebells are also called fairy flowers as many years ago people believed that they were put in the woods by fairies to trap people. We gathered materials around us on the field like daisies and small sticks to make our own fairy traps. We had a look at some actual bluebells and discussed how they looked like bells and that we shouldn’t pick them, just admire them.
Back in the forest school area, we made the traps and even a lot of our own forest school music!
Dragon Eggs
Today some of Class 1 went on a quest to find dragon eggs. They had to cross a stinking swamp, pass crocodiles in a river as well as negotiate round a sleeping troll! The pupils also created a delicious soup for the dragons and added daisies to keep them healthy.
Having found some dragon eggs the pupils gathered them up and put them all safely in a nest. Some pupils even went digging in the dragon pool!
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