This week’s Forest School theme was wind. We began the session by reading a non-fiction book titled Gusts and Gals. I explained that this type of text is used to help us find out real information about the world around us.
When I asked the children where they thought wind comes from, their responses included “trees” and “clouds.” I explained that these things move because of the wind, but they are not the source of it. The children learned that wind is created when cool and warm air meet. We also explored the difference between global winds and local winds.
Although it wasn’t a particularly windy day, we observed the ribbons on our boundary markers fluttering gently in the breeze.
The children then made their own flags to wave in the wind. They used a Japanese printmaking technique called Hapa Zome, which involves transferring natural pigments from leaves and flowers onto fabric by pounding them. Using flower petals and leaves, they created beautiful patterns on cotton material, which they then attached to sticks to create their own flags.
Later, we spent time cloud gazing, noticing the shapes drifting across the sky. The children spotted many imaginative forms in the clouds, including a fish, a chicken, and a love heart.
To revisit a previous activity, I brought back the helicopters (Sycamore seeds) so the children could experiment with dropping them and observing how they spun in the wind.
We ended the session with a game of Fox and Rabbit, a familiar favourite from a previous Forest School block. The children were excited to play it again and remembered the rules well.
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