Today we enjoyed the lovely mild weather and headed off on an Autumn walk. As soon as we left Cart Mill the children were delighted to spot a tree full of birds! There were so many and there was beautiful singing and chirping coming from them all.

“Look at the hundreds of birds!”      “They are saying cheep cheep!”

We carried on our walk and had great fun collecting leaves. We looked for different shapes, sizes and colours of leaves.

”I’ve found a yellow one!”    “Look a pretty red one!”

As we came to the bridge down at the river there was a very muddy patch blocking our path! The children thought and assessed whether they could jump over the mud!

Of course they made it over! We were very proud of ourselves! We heard there were conkers fallen off a big tree further down the road so we went to investigate. We were not disappointed! We found lots of conkers and some berries too!

”We don’t eat these berries as they are poisonous sure they are?”

There were so many piles of leaves under the trees that we couldn’t resist throwing them up in the air to make leaf showers! We had great fun doing this!

The children spotted some wild life whilst out walking! We were super excited to see a little squirrel running up a tree, we spotted a snail and a wiggly worm too!

“The worm feels all cold and squishy!”

The children enjoyed their walk back listening to the sound of the river! At the top of the path one of the children found what they called a cave! It looked like a cave and we all had a peak inside!

Once back in Cartmill we enjoyed sorting our findings into piles of different coloured leaves and conkers!

We had to take some of the conkers out of their shells!

Finally we looked at our leaf wheel which shows us all the different leaves you find. We successfully matched some of the leaves we found to the leaves on the wheel! Great job children!

We then washed our hands and had snack! What a busy fun morning!