A fantastic week in 3.9! We made the most of the dry periods and went to the forest to do some tree identification. We used tree identification guides to help us and it was a very successful activity! This type of outdoor learning experience allows us to apply our reading skills and also other Metaskills/soft skills like collaboration, cooperation, team-work, listening to others and observation.
The children were able to identify English oak, beech, goat willow, common hawthorns and wild cherry trees. We use the leaves, bark and tree shape and size to help us.
We also did some leaf printing, which at first we tried with air drying clay, but this wasn’t very successful as the hot sun dried it out very quickly. Using plasticine was much more successful as you can see below. This allowed us to see the veins in the leaves and differentiate between different types of leaves.
In numeracy we have been focussing on improving our knowledge of our times tables.
