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Week 6. Reception Class collected some wildflowers and leaves to do some hapa zome art.
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We put the flowers and leaves in between two layers of fabric and hit them gently with a hammer.
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What a beautiful piece of hapa zome artwork!
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We love playing Foxy, Foxy on the field.
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Week 5. Class 1 made lentil dahl on the fire today. We looked at and smelled the ingredients; it was fun guessing what all the spices were
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We made the stock to add to the pan.
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We kept stirring it while it was cooking.
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When the dahl was ready, we toasted some naan bread on the grill.
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We all tried it and lots of us had second and even third helpings until it was all gone!
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Reception Class made clay models during their session.
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Week 4. Class 1 played Minefield for the first time today.
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Our friends have to give us clear instructions to help us safely navigate the minefield while we are blindfolded!
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Minefield needs good communication skills, trust and teamwork.
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A fantastic wooden hat was made today.
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Some of us cut wood cookies again this week.
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We enjoyed a game of Creeping Coyote to finish the session.
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Reception class started their session listening to the story Cave Baby.
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We don't have a cave to do our artwork in, so we used paper to draw on with the charcoal that we made last week.
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Some of us drew on more than just the paper!
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At the end of the afternoon we played Foxy, Foxy, Can We Cross Your Field.
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Week 3. Class 1 went to the Secret Garden to collect some willow.
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We used lots of tools to make a variety of things out of willow.
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The children wanted to use the bow saw again to cut more wood cookies.
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Reception Class learned the three things that a fire needs: fuel, heat and oxygen. We collected sticks for the fire.
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We put the charcoal tin (filled with last week's peeled willow) in the fire and left it there until steam stopped coming out of the holes.
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While the willow was turning into charcoal, we toasted crumpets on the fire.
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Crumpets are delicious with butter and jam.
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We built some tarpaulin dens too.
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Week 2. Reception Class played Kim's Game. We had 10 natural objects that we had to remember.
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Sarah covered them up and removed one thing...we then had to work out what was missing.
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Then we went to the Secret Garden to cut some willow.
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We used the secateurs and the loppers to cut the willow branches into shorter lengths.
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Next we peeled the willow and put it into a tin, ready to make charcoal next week.
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Class 1 went bug hunting this week. We found a big beetle.
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Hunting for bugs.
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We toasted crumpets on the campfire.
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Crumpets are delicious with butter and jam!
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The bug hunters found a caterpillar and named him Woody.
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Class 1 finished their session with a game of Creeping Coyote. Stealth was needed to steal the treasure!
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Week 1. This week Reception Class and Class 1 played a plant matching card game. Then we identified all the different plants in the pictures.
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We learned how to use a bow saw safely.
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Using the bow saw, we cut a slice of wood off an old branch.
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We used the pens to decorate our wood cookies.
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We were so pleased with our wood cookies and we loved using the bow saw to make them.
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Some of us used a palm drill to make a hole in our wood cookie.
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This way to the train station!
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