Fantastic Friday !!
Hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather.
The weekend forecast is looking splendid. So why not get out in the garden and try some of these simple but fun activities.
Self portraits
It's time to get really imaginative!
Can you create your own portrait out of natural items? Gather up what you can find on the ground in your garden or out and about and use your imagination to create a masterpiece. Be creative and think outside of the box, you can be as abstract as you want.
You could make a portrait of every member of your family and play a guess who game.
Below is a portrait of one of your Forest School leaders. Who do you think it is?
Don't forget to send in your pictures via your teachers and let us know who you think it is.
Make bark and leaf rubbings
Nature loves a pattern.
They can make fascinating pictures if you know where to look.
All you need are some colourful crayons and plain paper, then head outside.
To make the rubbing, simply place the paper on top of a natural object and rub a crayon over it sideways to create a fantastic print. Tree bark is ideal - the more knobbly the better!
You could even turn it into a competition by getting your family members to guess which tree or natural item you used to make the rubbing.
Good luck! And again we would love to see pictures of them.
Knot of the Week
Here it is the Square Lashing - hope you have been practicing your clove hitch as you will need it this week.
Square lashing is used to bind two poles together and it is designed to be load bearing. It is good for creating a rectangular frame using sticks (a clue for next week).
Square Lashing Knot Tying Instructions
1.Tie a Clove Hitch around the vertical pole and pull the knot very tight.
2.Begin the lashing of the two poles together by twisting the short end from the clove hitch around long end of the rope.
3.Then wrap the rope over the front of the horizontal pole then around the back side of the vertical pole and over the front of the horizontal piece.
4.Continue around the back side of the vertical pole, the front of the horizontal and back side of the vertical and front of the horizontal.
5.Continue with this wrapping, alternately going over and under each pole for three turns.
6.Tighten your wraps down by making two or more "frapping turns" around the ropes.
7.Finish the knot by making two or more half hitches next to the original wraps.
Forest school News
Mrs Cherry had a helper in the garden over Easter
As I was quietly minding my own business, merrily weeding a flower bed, when I spotted something sitting tentatively next to my feet. It was looking up at me with dark black eyes. Instantaneously, I jumped back and let out a scream, thinking it was a rat. After my heart had stopped pounding, I had a closer look. To my delight, sitting there was the cutest baby squirrel, who was very tame and proceeded to follow me around the garden for the rest of the afternoon. However, he or she had not experienced a pond before and thought they could walk on water! Little did they know......
Bird watch
A friend of Mrs Cherry has a bird box in their garden, in which they have fitted a camera and have been sending updates of the nesting blue tits. Below are some of the photographs of the two birds building their nest and the eggs that they have laid.
Will update the blog next week with further pictures. Fingers crossed there may be babies.
Your pictures
Finally, here are some of the pictures that you have sent in.
Thank you and keep sending them in. It would be lovely to collate them all together at the end and make a display in school.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Cherry and Mrs Turland
