What a lovely day it was for a trip to the forest - nice and warm and the sun was shining!
As always we began with finding our wild place and sat quietly enjoying it, listening to noises around us and looking to see if anything had changed.
We were working in four groups today and rotating round four different stations; using storm kettles, filming 'Bear Hunt', senses game, creating a character and litter picking.
Storm Kettles
Scott who is Edinburgh's outdoor development officer came to teach us how to use storm kettles to make yummy hot chocolate. He was helped by Abbi and we had great fun collecting small twigs to start the little fire needed to heat the water and then needed to collect bigger twigs to keep it going. Scott made it in to a little competition to see who boil their water first.
Senses Game
Miss McArthur was encouraging groups to use their senses and think of descriptive sentences they could write about what they saw, heard, touched and smelt.
Create a character
Theresa and Linda with their groups were conserving the forest area by collecting litter to keep it clean, tidy and protected. The groups also had to use something in the forest (tree, leaf, rock) to create characters using a nose, eyes and mouth.
Bear Hunt
Mrs McCafferty's groups were filming 'Going on a bear hunt' to help with the nursery/P1 transition project. Hopefully there will be some video footage of this in another blog...
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