Some dry relatively mild and not ridiculously windy weather at last today. Our site has begun to resemble a quagmire in many places due to the constant rain and recent heavy snow. So the Year 3 Garden Team headed out with me this afternoon to carry out some maintenance work. The entrance to our vegetable garden has become extremely muddy and squelchy. Though wonderful fun to splosh about in (as the Year 3 Garden Team were happy to demonstrate) is making it rather difficult to safely move equipment in and out of the vegetable garden. We still have a good pile of bark chipping at the bottom of the driveway which the children enthusiastically wheel-barrowed up to the vegetable garden (Giving each other the odd lift along the way!).
They also decided it would be rather fun to 'plant' each other in the bark chippings so that when they grew big, they could be picked and turned into 'kid cakes' in the school kitchen complete with eyeball decorations on the top!!! Unfortunately it was time for the children to go back to class, so we didn't get to find out if they would make tasty cakes.
Next the Year 4 Team joined me outside to put up some of the bird boxes decorated by the Year 3 Forest School group last week. The children looked for places high enough to prevent cats from reaching them and out of direct sunlight so that the boxes would not become to hot (if we ever get any sun!)
We will be erecting the rest of the nesting boxes next week as part of National Nest Box Week.
To find out more go to: http://www.bto.org/nnbw/index.htm
They also decided it would be rather fun to 'plant' each other in the bark chippings so that when they grew big, they could be picked and turned into 'kid cakes' in the school kitchen complete with eyeball decorations on the top!!! Unfortunately it was time for the children to go back to class, so we didn't get to find out if they would make tasty cakes.
Next the Year 4 Team joined me outside to put up some of the bird boxes decorated by the Year 3 Forest School group last week. The children looked for places high enough to prevent cats from reaching them and out of direct sunlight so that the boxes would not become to hot (if we ever get any sun!)
We will be erecting the rest of the nesting boxes next week as part of National Nest Box Week.
To find out more go to: http://www.bto.org/nnbw/index.htm
