On Thursday, Squirrels and Foxes classes enjoyed a trip to the Parkridge Centre in Brueton Park, Solihull. Here’s what we did.

We heard all about the different types of trees in the woods. We hunted for certain types of leaves and matched them to the trees they had fallen from. We used mirrors to look right up into the tree canopies, and even hugged some trees!

We also went pond dipping. We used a net to make a figure of 8 in the water and see what we could catch. Then, we took the net over to the table and carefully emptied out the contents into a shallow tray of water. We had a reference sheet to look up what we had caught – midge larvae, snails and fresh water limpets were some of the creatures we discovered. When we had finished, we made sure all of the creatures went back safely into the pond.

We also enjoyed learning all about different kinds of minibeasts and went on a minibeast hunt.  We found so many different kinds including worms, woodlice, ladybirds, many butterflies and flies. We also found a small frog!

We all had a really great time and learnt an awful lot about British wildlife and woodlands.

Zog

In English this term we've been reading books by Julia Donaldson. In this activity, we thought about all of the things that Zog learnt while he was at school, then made posters about them to help us to write our school reports for him. We had a lot of fun creating these posters and they really helped us to do our best writing afterwards.

World Book Day

Squirrels Class had a great day yesterday, dressing in their favourite character costumes for World Book Day. Many children brought in special books to share with others, and we all left with some lovely bookmarks and our wonderful £1 book day token. I wonder what everyone will buy - I'm looking forward to finding out!

Here are our self-portraits for you to enjoy - can you see who's who?