Monday mornings are normally quiet but we had a few excited children at the back of the bus on the way to Arlington.
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Can you make out who they are?
Stuart then showed us the parkland and have us some history of the house.
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We then started on our leaf hunt… A field maple and a sycamore are quite similar!![2014-09-29 10.19.36](https://i0.wp.com/georgeham.edublogs.org/files/2014/09/2014-09-29-10.19.36-x9qb7p-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168)
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!
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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!
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Now is the sun up on the high most hill of this day’s journey…
On Isabel’s smoothie, this means it’s lunchtime!
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The rope course is really tricky!
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Josh helped us to make a tree back at the parkland.
There was the heart wood…
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There was the anchor root…
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There were the tap roots…
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There was the tap wood…
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There was the layer that brought the sugars back down…
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There was the bark…
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… And there was the bug that tried to gnaw it’s way through.
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On our way back to play some games we stopped off at the log house.
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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 😉
I hope they had a great time like us