The children in the Gold Class had a lovely time visiting the park and enjoying outdoor learning. As they walked to the local park, Grangewood Park, they thought about keeping safe on the roads. Everyone remembered to ‘Stop, Look and Listen’ before crossing the road safely, following Ms. Montoya’s instructions. The children impressed all of the adults by walking all of the way without complaining. As they walked up the hill, the children marched like the soldiers from ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ and remembered the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’ who also went up the hill.
Once in the park, they were very excited to go through the forestry areas of the park. Some of the comments that the children made included: “There’s so many trees!”, “It’s like the forest!” ,”It’s so much fun walking here!” Once the camp was set up, the children were challenged to look for a range of plants in the environment by matching them to pictures. Next, the children built on their knowledge of 2D shapes by helping Ms Montoya count out the right number of sticks to make them. Then, the children enjoyed participating on a shape hunt and sorting the shapes. After all that learning, we cleaned our hands and sat down to enjoy a lovely snack and drink.
The children would like to say a big thank you to all of our parent volunteers who gave up their time to help make this trip possible!
