31 January 2018 – All day

As it was a rainy day we put up a tarp, some of the children listened to the sound of raindrops and observed the movement of the rain on top of it.  In the morning session, we had a small group of children attending (ages 3-5) with their nannies and parents, some of them homeschooled and some attending nursery.  During the morning session, Tom read a book to the children about parakeets and other animals that can live in the forest, most of the children were happy to participate in the reading activity and enjoyed looking at the miniature animals Tom brought along to look at the different animals, such as a deer and wild hog.  We then did some games such as hide and seek.  During the afternoon session children of a mixed age group from 3 to 7 years attended.  We built a hideaway with long logs and covered it with leaves to shelter us from the rain.

I played with a 7-year-old boy, we dug a trap for a toadlet, used small bendy sticks to cover the trap and hid it with leaves -> imagination -> using first-hand experiences -> natural materials available in the woods/forest.

 

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