It was welcome back to Helen who is helping out again so she was straight back into the hot seat setting up the fire for hot chocolate. This term we are moving the tree house to a different tree and building a shelter just in case the winter is as wet as the summer was. With our building plans set it was time to revise our knots as there is going to be a lot of rope and string to get tangled in. We started with our stopper knots and figure of eight which held no problems for anyone. We then moved on to the clove hitch which is the basis for square lashing and raft lashing so one we need to master. It was positive to see that most did not give up and some would not stop until they could do it again and again.
Before snack time we divided into three groups and each group chose an area in the FS to build an island. After the hot chocolate had been supped the groups returned to their areas to which I had added piles of sands too and they started modelling their islands. Each group came up with different ideas and started telling stories about what was happening on their island there was a monster island, a pirate island and a tropical island. With the addition of lumps of clay the islands had characters modelled to live on the island and piece of cloth became flags and tents. I think the islands will be returned to over the term and it was really nice in the way the children wanted to show off their islands to their parents at the end of the session which makes me think that we will always do pick up from the FS area in future so that parents can see what their children have been up to.
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