Monday mornings are normally quiet but we had a few excited children at the back of the bus on the way to Arlington.
Can you make out who they are?
Stuart then showed us the parkland and have us some history of the house.
We then started on our leaf hunt… A field maple and a sycamore are quite similar!
A fantastic way of working out the height of a tree… Although, children are a little more flexible than me so I told them to walk a little further!
This tree is 160 years old. We worked out that 4 metres divided by 2.5 (open land, otherwise 1.5 for woodland) gives an approximate age of 160 years!
Now is the sun up on the high most hill of this day’s journey…
On Isabel’s smoothie, this means it’s lunchtime!
The rope course is really tricky!
Josh helped us to make a tree back at the parkland.
There was the heart wood…
There was the anchor root…
There were the tap roots…
There was the tap wood…
There was the layer that brought the sugars back down…
There was the bark…
… And there was the bug that tried to gnaw it’s way through.
On our way back to play some games we stopped off at the log house.
We loved the grass on the roof!
Class 4: You’ve been working on what the nature area could look like. Â Has this trip and the photos given you any inspiration?Â
Posted from the ‘Edublogs App for Android’ whilst out and about.
Class 4: You’ve been working on what the nature area could look like. Â Has this trip and the photos given you any inspiration?Â
Posted from the ‘Edublogs App for Android’ whilst out and about.
What a brilliant day. Lucky kids 🙂
G loved her day at Arlington. Well done Team Georgeham.
It looks like you had a brilliant day, what a great way to learn about how a tree grows! I think the log house with the grass roof would look amazing in the nature area! I don’t think we’ve had that idea in our planning yet. It will be interesting to see what other ideas come from the trip 🙂
Well, a pizza oven could prove a popular addition to the nature area! What do you think, Mr. T.? We could get Darren cooking outside every day!
It could certainly bring a new element to breakfasts. How about Friday evening Pizzas?!
Ooh, now that’s an idea 😉
ooh pizza oven would be fun!! We met an amazing ‘community potter’ whilst we were on holiday this summer who comes to schools and makes pizza ovens with the kids.
I actually liked the wooden house they had. It would be lovely to have one of those close to the nature area… But with a pizza oven next to it?! Are you going to have one at yours too?
Mr T, I think you need to get in touch with the ‘community potter’ for school! Quite fancy a pizza oven 🙂 The children were keen on solar lighting in the nature area….good to give light whilst cooking the pizzas perhaps 😉