Technically it’s Wednesday but until I go to bed it’s still Tuesday as far as I’m concerned so there!
Early start for Forest School today and we were cutting it fine getting out of the house but made it for 10am okay. I dropped Davies and Scarlett off, sat in the carpark and watched them walk up the hill and then headed off. I had an adventurous couple of hours kicking off with a wander round Matalan followed by a drive around parts of Brighton I am not familiar with at all with barely any petrol but found my way back and had a wander round Asda picking up exciting items like pants for Ady and Scarlett and trying on bras for myself and buying a couple – we are all suitably underwear attired to go out and have car accidents now ;).
While I was doing this I had a couple of texts from Liza to tell me that Forest School was including tools today which was slightly unnerving but I had one to tell me all seemed safe and everyone still had all their limbs. I sat in the carpark and read for half an hour before climbing the VERY steep hill to where they all were, barely ten minutes before they packed up and we all walked down the hill again.
Putting together what Liza whispered had been happening along with accounts from both children today was a good one. They did some sawing wood with bow saws to make small discs and then drilling it to make a hole to thread with string to make a pendant before decorating them. Davies also adorned his with a feather, Tarly’s had a tiger on it. Photos are thanks to Liza 🙂
Davies tells me they then had a story that was part factual all about animals and they had to use ‘owls eyes’ and ‘deers ears’ ie stay very still and quiet and focus on what was around them in the forest before coming to report back on what they’d seen and heard. He says he saw a magpie, Tarly is insistent she saw a badger and a fox and when Davies said she couldn’t have as they are nocturnal she said they were asleep 😆
They had their usual hot chocolate and plenty of free time playing in the woods but seemed to have had a good time as usual. I’m planning on staying next week to watch again aslong as the weather is nice.
I had half planned to go to the allotment but it was so windy I don’t think I could have got much done so we came home instead and I drank lots of tea while the children did drawing and made birthday cards for Ady (45 tomorrow!).
I wasn’t in the mood for swimming today and wanted to watch their lesson and see their progress anyway so I didn’t go in the pool. They both had a good lesson although I notice they are probably the best two in there again so fingers crossed they’ll go up together in September. I think having each other for healthy competition does them both good.
Home for their tea and I made quiche for our dinner later and an apple crumble in lieu of a birthday cake for Ady :). We read some more Charlie Small , Julie rang to cancel meeting up tomorrow (a relief as it was going to be a bit of a rushing around day and now it will be a peaceful afternoon at least as we’re all going out tomorrow evening for a meal) and that pretty much brings me up to date. Hurrah!
yeah the saws were a little unnerving! I only went up the hill/mountain coz A wanted to show me the shelters they had built last week but felt like staying to watch when I heard what todays activities were 😉
Lol you make it sound like I was sending you horrible texts about how dangerous it was. They did do lots of talking bout safety before anyone got to use the tools.
*whispers…glad now that i deleted those ranty texts before sending or there may have been asthma inducing sprinting up hills*
:p
Happy Birthday Ady! 🙂
Comment by Liza — 13 May 2009 @ 1:08 am
The trial forest school session we had included a saw, which was the only bit of equipment she supervised closely. The loppers and secateurs were free game for anyone, which raised my eyebrows slightly at the time, considering that the anyones were down to age 4 or 5!
Happy Birthday Ady. Hope you all have a lovely meal out to celebrate.
Comment by jax — 13 May 2009 @ 10:45 am
Bob is 52 tomorrow. He also married a woman 10 years + his junior 😉 Have a nice day
Comment by Joyce — 13 May 2009 @ 8:07 pm
Belated birthday returns to Ady!
Comment by Michelle — 26 May 2009 @ 11:38 am