This morning, we received a voice note, a letter, a song and a special invitation from Squirrel. Squirrel asked for our help to get ready for a bonfire party. We sang songs, made natural sparklers by attaching leaves to sticks with pipe cleaners and enjoyed making an edible snack on the fire made by Mrs Gregory who came to join us in the woodland today. Mrs Gregory talked to us about how she was going to make the fire and helped us to understand how to be safe around our woodland fire pit. Mrs Gregory melted chocolate on the fire for us and then we dipped our breadsticks into sprinkles to make edible sparklers. We had to help Mrs Johnson count 5 leaves accurately because she kept making mistakes! What a lovely morning we had!

We all enjoyed dressing up as what we wanted to be when we grow up and shared the story: “When I grow up I’d like to be”, this is a delightful rhyming picture book about jobs and talents, the illustrations are delightful and it provoked lots of talk about careers, jobs and our futures. During the day we had lots of role play opportunities:
– Hodnet artists studio (where children created artwork for our walls and new tattoo sleeve designs)
-Hodnet cafe in our home corner (although I never did get the cup of tea I ordered)
– Hodnet beauticians
-Hodnet mini school (lots of teachers and just a few pupils, they enjoyed demonstrating lots of phonics)
– Hodnet veterinary surgery (although the patients were wild zoo animals)
– Hodnet science lab (we investigated changing colours of potions, this kept us busy all afternoon)
– Hodnet architects office (we then built models of our buildings from Lego)
-Hodnet authors office (lots of great stories were written)
– Hodnet clothes design studio (the designers modelled their creations on the catwalk at the end of the day)

We also designed our own firework displays with a repeating pattern.

The fairies sent us some treats to share with our friend before he moved house and moved school, we read a lovely story that they had sent us about friends and shared a tasty marshmallow treat. We also made some Autumn wreaths from the leaves that have been falling in our Forest Schools area.