Monthly Archives: October 2020

The Promise and leaf rubbing

Health and Well-being, Literacy, Outdoor learning

After listening to the story The Promise, by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin, which was launched as a video animation on Monday in Scotland, we had some great discussions on nature, how being outside in nature makes us feel and how growing things is such a satisfying and happy and joyful experience .  Here is a link to the website where you can listen to the story again and watch the animation too.

https://www.thepromise.earth/

We then went outside and collected some interesting leaves and made some beautiful leaf rubbings using colourful oil pastels.

Flower and leaf pressing

Outdoor learning, Science

The week before the October holiday we all made and designed our fantastic high tech outdoor clip board flower presses (HTOCFP for short!) We went out into the ECO garden and collected some leaves and flowers to press.

We carefully placed the items we picked into our presses and stored them away in our folders till today when we opened them and had a good look at them on a light box. It was really exciting to see what happened to them over the two weeks.