Year One's Forest School Journey

This term in class, Year One have been learning about journeys. Their book focus has been Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car. In the story, Mr. Gumpy decides to go for a drive in his motor car and his animal friends want to go along for the ride. On first our walk to the woods, the children were delighted to spot a few of Mr. Gumpy's friends including the chicken, the goat and the dog.

The children have enjoyed discovering hidden treasures on their journey through the woodland. They have used binoculars and magnifying glasses to observe how woodland inhabitants travel through the woods and created natural paint from berries to paint the things they have observed.

They have also been looking at different ways in which seeds can travel away from the parent plant from the explosive Himalayan balsam seed pods to the helicopter like sycamore seeds and the floating dandelion seeds. 

This week, the group began making journey sticks wrapped in hessian strips. As they journey through the woodland, they can attach their forest finds to map their journey.

Look Miss, I am flying