John Muir Explorer - Day One

We headed up to Craigmillar Castle Park for a jam packed day, full of exploration. In class we had already thought about what we would like to do and the things we would like to learn and we have also started to learn about life cycles so we will understand better about the different stages animals and insects may be going through when we discover them in the forest.

Our activities in the forest were:

1. Find a wild place, that we will return to every week
2. Complete a treasure hunt with a parntner
3. Tree Identification - use pictures of leaves to try to look for the different trees in the wood.
4. Nature Alphabet - colelct different items to then create a message or make your name with.

We were lucky with the weather which always helps and although the wind picked up we were fairly sheltered in side the forest. We even spotted a kestrel on our walk home, hovering in the sky looking for it's prey and could hear but not see pheasants lurking in the forest where we were.

FINDING OUR WILD PLACES

 

 

INSECT DISCOVERY

 

 

 TREASURE HUNT

 

 

TREE IDENTIFICATION

 

 

NATURE ALPHABET

 

A very successful first day had and we are looking forward to heading out again next week.