Scavenger Hunt, part 2

We took our scavenger hunt boxes with us to the bush today, to see if we could complete our collections. Great teamwork, and sharing of ideas about where one team had found an illusive item enabled everyone to find everything they needed.

We are keeping all our items in preparation for our next challenge... More on that next week!

Exploration

After finishing our scavenger hunt today, we had some exploration time, where we could all choose what we wanted to go and have a closer look at. Some of us chose to have a look around the old logs and see what insects we could find, some had a close look at the shapes in the bushes and trees that were growing around our meeting area, some followed paths to see where they led, and some took the challenge of trying to climb trees with no branches near the ground to give a foot-up.

There was a great level of concentration and absorption, with lots of sharing of ideas...

Sneaky Snatch

As we were down to one teacher this week, we stayed within the playground, which gave us a good opportunity to try out a new game. Sneaky Snatch has one blindfolded person in the middle of the circle with something in front of them that makes a noise - we used a bunch of keys. The plan is for the children in the circle to creep in and the quickest, quietest one to take the keys, but if the blindfolded person hears any movement noises, s/he points in the direction of the noise, and that player has to go back to the starting position and start again. We thought the big open space of the court would be a good place to practice, but unfortunately, the noise of the wind made it impossible for the blindfolded person to hear anyone coming! It was good to practise the game, but it will work much better in the bush, where the debris on the ground will make sneaking up quietly a bit more tricky...

Scavenger Hunt

After our game, we headed off on a 12 item scavenger hunt: one item for each space in an egg box! We worked in groups of 2 or 3, and focused on the bank area, as that has always got interesting little things to find. We had a list inside the lid of the egg box, including things such as a smooth leaf, a prickly leaf, a thin stick and a thick stick, a feather, a blade of grass, a mystery object...things to get us starting to use a variety of senses.

We didn't quite manage to find everything, but will continue next week.

More finds

Look what we found in the bush...

Look what we found in the bush...

After a game of 1,2,3, where are you?, which is proving to be very popular, we went on a scavenger hunt: the challenge was to find something unusual, interesting, beautiful or a mystery...

All sorts of items, in all shapes and sizes came back, and the children came up with some great descriptions of why they had made their choices. It was also great to see the self-confidence in choosing whether to work alone, or to team up with others.

Look what we carried back to school!

Some of us were so pleased with our discoveries that we had to enlist help to bring them back to school!