It feels like summer this week and it brought out the wildlife, we found a toad in the Forest School site which was moved to a nice pile of leaves which it was less likely to be stood on. The children handled it with care and kept returning to the pile to see if the leaves were moving. It was good to see that they recognised that it was another living being and that it might be scared with all the attention.
The work on the clay oven continues with the removal of the sand on Thursday and four large holes were dug on Friday some we could put a roof over it. At the moment the roof is only a tarp on a frame next term we may have a go at making shingles as we have a source of soft wood. If everyone makes two we should be able to cover the oven easily.
One of the boys brought a book with him which he was desperate to finish reading. The book was all about monster and beast so with the book finished he started to make a giant picture of one of the beast on the ground. He used materials he found around the FS site this then lead to a number of other boys making their own monsters.
We have had a sand for digging in for along time and it is hardly used but as we needed somewhere to put the sand form the clay oven it was dumped in the sand pit. This generated a sudden interest in the pit. The using it had great fun building roads and houses. It will be interesting to see if they return to it next week or will it be ignored once again.
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