Left, Right, Left, Right!

We've been skiing...on a pair we made ourselves! Using long planks of decking, a long, thick red strap, a staple gun and a hammer and nails...we set to work!

It was important that we created a pair of ski's so 7 children at a time could get on and work together to travel the length of the playground. We used a ruler and marked the wood every 12 inches (we decided this is how long our feet plus a little bit of extra room would take up). Caitlyn and Aimee cut the red strap into equal lengths whilst Alfie marked the wood to show where they would be attached. Sophie held the straps whilst we used the staple gun to secure them before Micheal and Jay hammered in some nails. They were such good fun to make - even though it started raining, we hardly noticed!

We had a go at walking on the ski's one at a time...it was pretty easy until another person joined in! The more people on the ski's, the harder it became to walk without falling over!

We found the best way to walk was to hold on to each other like a train, and listen to the person at the front shouting which foot to move first. Working as a team was so important because, "if one person doesn't move, it lets everybody else down." 

As you can see from the pictures - we had a lot of fun playing with the ski's and learnt a lot about teamwork. Working together really does get the job done quicker...as Mitchell and Abigail's team found out!!

Watch our video and you will see just how difficult we found this task at first!

Hideout Heaven!

Wow! This is one of the logs from our 'log pile' which the council dropped off last Friday after Sean spotted them chopping away near our school! These logs will look great dotted about our grounds once the landscaping is complete.

On Wednesday we all spent the day with Mrs Edwards and Sean, exploring the tree areas around school to find a good place build our den. We found some great spaces, like in the centre of tree island or along the edge of the wall near the school field.

We searched high and low for natural building materials in the wooded areas and took them back to class.

Once back in class we fixed our materials together along with some wood, cardboard and fabrics that Sean had brought in too. We worked in our own groups before Mrs Edwards split us up to work with some different people. We created some amazing dens and learnt that the best ones were made with a mix of boys and girls in a group!

We talked about how we couldn't have made these hideouts by ourselves and that working together brought about new ideas and interesting creations we wouldn't have thought about on our own.  

  

One group spent some time with Sean building an outdoor den! It had an upstairs, a hide-hole, steps up to the top and a letter box! We used the drill and saw and worked as a team to make our tree house on the infant playground! Our next step is to think about building a larger den for the rest of the school to use in our grounds. How exciting!!