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It’s Up To Us…

3rd May 2023

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Children from both Cedars and Larches, continued their work, as Langley Eco-Warriors this week, helping with King Charles’ pledge to look after our world and nature all around us. As he told us in his book…’It’s up to us’ 
 
 
When we discussed ideas last week, both classes were keen to make a bat box. We wanted to encourage different creatures to enjoy our woodland.
So this week we worked together to make bat boxes to hang on trees in Forest School. 
We learnt how to use a saw and a hacksaw, listening carefully to a special tool talk, so we understood how to hold and use the tools properly. Everyone wore a glove on their non-tool hand (we call it our helping hand) and then we cut our wood to size. We needed four different lengths of wood and some smaller thinner pieces to nail in-between. 
Everyone enjoyed working together on this project and we are really pleased with the end result…
The children had also asked to make more birdfeeders, so this week we gave them a choice of different types of birdfeeders using cheerios, toilet rolls, sticks, bottles and pipe cleaners, and of course birdseed too! Look at our hard work…
There’s been lots of interest this half term in finding worms and last week, the children asked to make a wormery.
First of all, we found some tiny stones to put on the bottom of our jar, then dug some soil and sieved it, to get rid of the bigger stones and lumps. We added soil, then sand, then more soil and sand and topped it off with leaves for the worms to eat. We popped a few worms in the top then added a cloth lid with air holes poked in. When we got back to school, we covered the outside of the jar with some dark card and will be watching to see what happens over the next week. We are hoping to see the tracks that the worms make in the soil and sand and how they move the leaves down under ground. We will release them back to the digging pit next week…
Always busy in Forest School…