LIME
There were some great themes this week on ‘nationaltoday.com’ and it inspired Lime class in a big way. They opened up a branch of Dominos to commemorate ‘Pizza Week’ (even though they dropped quite a few pizzas on the floor). A group began inventing for ‘child inventors day’ and created a shaving machine that got rid of bark from branches. Another team were playing minecraft in the digging zone and reached some precious clay! They started building a little clay/mud house and sending any extra clay to the pizza shops.
WILLOW
Willow were also mostly inspired by ‘inventors day’ and made a number of exciting new gadgets in the forest including…a camera, a pulley system, a sort of domino run with logs. The new country that was founded ‘Unicorn Land’ continued to thrive this week. The shelter was built again and people set to work in the digging zone providing mud and the president began handing out a number of bribes to various people to do some shady work for him! There were also some games of Eagle Eye and a Sushi shop was opened.
EYFS
Some tiny inventors were all over the forest this morning! Some makes were very quick, with some decorations for your house (sticks tied together with a hoop that hangs) but others took nearly the whole session to build. A huge ‘mountain crusher’ was invented which can chop through anything you need to crush, we were reassured that it could even crush big rocks. An old lady with 2 walking sticks shuffled around the forest too (we were told she was 55!). The session finished with a few high spirited games of hide and seek.
BEECH
Beech had a few inventions but they were more excited by Strawberry Ice Cream Day. A small group made an incredible shop with all kinds of ice cream flavours and used a bucket and watering can to help make it. Another group became Way finders and made their own boat to play Moana 2. A party was made with lots of different rooms for different party purposes. The main two were the ‘music and dancing room’ and ‘the food room’. The digging zone was very busy too as a team were trying to dig a tunnel to get to their houses quicker after school!
MAPLE
More inventions were made in the afternoon, with a ‘Merger Machine’ that would take any two items and put them together. The game of Traitors also continued which was going very well until the traitor decided not to tell everyone that they were a traitor and the game carried on until a confession had to be made! The shelter was given a roof and walls and looks incredible now, while a group used the clay in the digging zone to make some more pots. To celebrate ‘Spicy Food Day’ a restaurant opened that made a range of incredible forest items!