At this time of year many plants are producing their berries, fruits and seeds and this week we had a look inside some of them to see what they are like. Sycamore 'helicopters' have a funny fluffy stuff in them, for example, and the 'bumpy bits' of blackberries have a lovely teardrop shape if you cut right inside them. It is hard work to pull pinecones right to bits but it can be done.
Then we made some little gathering pots out of air-drying clay, some of us imprinting them with berries and twigs, for future gathering expeditions - we are keeping an eye on those blackberries as they ripen!
NEXT WEEK, the day after our PLAY DAY on the 6th, there will be no group. The following week, the 14th, there will be a group - meet as usual at the bench - I won't be there but others will. Then, on the 21st, it will be our trip to Murton Park Farming Museum, for tractor and steam train rides, talking to their animals, and storytime in a Celtic village. Please write to me (catherine.heinemeyer@barkmail.com) if you are coming - I need to book the minibus!
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Our beloved Queen Victoria
We sometimes bow to her before we set off into the woods!
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I'm Aidan's Granny and we thoroughly enjoyed looking for dinosaur eggs the week before last. Aidan found eight - all different colours - and now they are planted in Granny's front garden. We don't think they'll hatch as we dropped them a few times, but you never know! Aidan loves to come to West Bank Park on Thursday mornings, even though we're often late, and we look forward to the activities and the singing.
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