Oliver's Battery Primary School: Year 3

16.5.17

On Tuesday year 3 had an outdoor learning day. Mrs Shelton came in and taught us how bugs live and where to find them. First Mrs Shelton took us down to the pond where we did water dipping in the splashy pond. She told us not to be really close to the pond because we could hurt the animals in the pond and we could get dirty. Mrs Shelton and Mrs Marshall scooped up lots of tadpoles and other creatures. Then we went back to class to look at the creatures there was Tadpoles, Newts, Water boatman, Dragonfly nymph and a fresh water shrimp and a pond snail. We each had a magnifying glass on each table. The animals were very interesting and tadpoles were wriggling a lot.

Next we whacked blossom on the bushes for finding bugs it was really pretty when the blossom came down. We found a lot of bugs. We found ladybirds, beetles, caterpillars, centipedes and a bee but the bee flew away sadly. We came back to our class room and we told the class what we found to each other. It was a bit tricky to find really hard bugs.

After that we went on a tree trail around our school. We had to find these orange ribbons with numbers on. It was pretty tricky. At the end of the hunt we got told which tree was which and we found out a lot of surprising things about holly. Then we had our yummy lunch.

After lunch we had Forest School! Forest school is where we get to play and build and climb and be safe and have fun for three hours! Some of us discovered how to climb a tree with no adult and some of us discovered how to build a swing and a tent/base. After three hours we lit up a fire and ate cooked bread it was yummy. Then we had tidy up time. Finally it was home time we got our stuff for home we also said thank you to Mrs Shelton and told her we had a great time!

By Ava and Lorenzo

Before we went on our walk we listened to Mrs Shelton tell us all about the pond. We then collected a sample to observe the wildlife.