Year 4's Fungi Foray

Earthball Fungi

Over the past few weeks the Year 4 group have noticed an array of fungi springing up all over our woodland. Keen to find out more about them, we ordered a copy of Roger Phillips comprehensive guide to mushrooms. Using the book as our guide, we have been able to identify several of the fungi we have observed in the woodland. They include fly agaric, earthballs, a range of different coloured russula and today we found a stinkhorn growing at the base of a rotting oak tree.

Amethyst Deceiver

Our equine friend enjoying some attention

Picking juicy blackberries on our walk to the woods

Stinkhorn Fungi

Making Woodland Music

Stone circle protecting Ruzena's acorn 

Woodland slide

Mr Jaques' Tree Art

Silvie's Woodland Musical Instrument

Our fungi hunting took us further into the woodland than we had been before. The children had great fun discovering what this new part of the woodland had to offer. Ruzena collected acorns and planted them in a clearing. She and Haroon created a stone circle around them so that they would be able to find them again and check on their progress. Silvie chose to tie string between two trees and hang sticks and stones from them to create a woodland musical instrument. She has plans to rebuild and modify it next time we go to the woods. Hannah and Kai created a den beneath a holly bush and built a mud slide on the embankment adjacent to their den. They said that next week they would like to experiment with using different materials to slide down on.