Family Tree

In this weeks Forest School session the children took the photos.

Learning how to identify trees can be a tricky matter, this activity helps children to really look at leaf shapes whilst linking to our pshe scheme looking at family.

In class we discussed what family means to us, everybody’s interpretation is slightly different so it was interesting to compare. Outside the children chose tree leaves to represent each member of their family. How would you arrange yours? Do you have the same shape for each person, do you have different shapes for boys and girls or cousins? Do you include pets? What if you have more than one mum or dad? Lots to think about. Also they needed to be careful how to remove the leaves without damaging the trees and then they had to identify the leaves they had used. Who’d have thought such a simple activity would have so much learning.

Principle 2: Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural wooded environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world.

Article 17  – We all have the right to be given safe and honest information, which is not harmful and we can understand.