Blackberry, Elderberry and Hawthorn Shake
October 22, 2013
The crazy one
June 25, 2013
THE CRAZY ONE
It’s Forest School! There’s one tree that’s CRAZY in Forest School – that’s the crazy tree [left]. They’re just normal trees [left], that brown’s the bark on the floor and there’s the blue sky above.
Age 5
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Giant sneezes
June 23, 2013
Boy: I had a dream last night – it was half BFG, half school. One of the bad giants visits Stony Stratford – he sees our school and and he says, “I’ve been looking for that school!”
He sees us playing in the bottom playground – year 1 and year 2 – and he guzzles up all of the children up. I’m sad because he’s eaten up all of my friends and who am I going to play with?
My friend Lucy is hiding and sewing bird feathers. I ask her if she can change me into a bird; giants don’t like birds – they make them itch ALL day! I go flying above the giant and the feathers drop off onto him and make him start sneezing. As he sneezes, all of the children he’s eaten explode out of him, through his fingernails. And it’s not even the end of break time, so we can carry on playing!
Blooming gardens
May 18, 2013
BLOOMING GARDENS
It’s flowers and a tree because it’s spring and there’s going to be lots of flowers in Stony Stratford.
Age 5
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The great outdoors
May 13, 2013
Son: I LOVE Forest School! We got to play ‘1-2-3 Where Are You?’
Mum: And where were you?
Son: In the forest, silly! And there was a Cloak tree.
Mum: Do you mean an Oak tree?
Son: No! It was a Cloak tree – like the Cloakroom at school, but outside. We had to hang our hi-vis jackets on it.
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Sparkly tree
May 11, 2013
SPARKLY TREE
It’s a tree. We did it in winter when there was snow on the ground, because we couldn’t go out into the playground. We hoped to, but it was too snowy and the teacher wouldn’t let us. So, we stayed inside and did a picture of a tree. All the glitter’s snow, apparently.
Age 5.
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Flower power!
May 6, 2013
Son: We had our pictures taken today and we had a competition! But I didn’t win.
Mum: Oh? What was the competition?
Son: Whoever finds the best flower gets to show it in assembly. I didn’t get the best flower though.
Mum: What flower did you get?
Son: A bluebell.
Mum: I like a bluebell. What were the winning flowers?
Son: A dandelion, which was still yellow, a daisy and a holly leaf which had a berry on it because it was from a cold place. Mine was number 4, so I don’t get to show it. The teacher took my picture with me pretending to ring it like a bell, but it’s only the winners get their pictures printed – only 1, 2 and 3, so my picture didn’t get printed.
Mum: Well I would have chosen a bluebell! I think bluebells are lovely.
Son: Yes, and they REALLY DO ring like a bell – I looked inside and it had a hard ball, like a raisin inside.
Mum: A stamen?
Son: Yes – a stamen – and when I shook it, I listened REALLY hard and I heard a little tinkle!
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Shiny peacock
March 29, 2013
Shiny peacock
D: You know what that is don’t you?
Me: Is it a peacock?
D: Yes! And we had to use shiny paper coz that’s all they had to use.
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Whales and whirlpools
January 11, 2013
D: Look, the water‘s going out of the basin like a swirl pool! …What’s a swirl pool?
Me: A WHIRL pool is when the water goes round and round and down – just like that.
D: Oh – I thought it was when a boat has water under it that goes round and SUCKS it down!
Me: Well yes – whirlpools can be in the sea too, but not very often and hardly ever with boats right on top.
D: If there WAS a boat on top, it would get sucked under and a big whale would come along and eat it. That would be scary wouldn’t it?
Me: I guess so, but I don’t think that happens very often at all.
Water world
January 9, 2013
D: I feel sick because I drank too much in the swimming pool. I don’t like one thing about swimming now, when I think about the water.
Me: You’re not meant to drink the swimming pool, you’re meant to keep your mouth shut when you’re under the water!
D: I did!
Me: So how did you drink the water if you had your mouth shut – did you take a straw in?
D: No… That would be silly!
Me: Perhaps you should have a snorkel next time?
D: Yes – that’s it! That’s a GREAT idea!
Me: Well… Snorkels and masks are for learning to dive, and you can’t learn to dive until you can swim a few lengths of the pool, first.
D: But diving‘s not allowed in the swimming pool.
Me: Diving INTO the water’s not allowed, but I’m talking about diving UNDER the water – sub aqua diving. I used to do that – it was great! There’s a whole different world under the sea – like in Finding Nemo, with all kinds of fishes swimming past.
D: Did you want to see a shark?
Me: Only if it was quite far away.
D: I bet you didn’t want to see a HUMPBACK WHALE? They’re the biggest creature in this world!
Me: Only if they were quite far away too.
D: Are they bigger than the sea?
Me: No – otherwise how would they fit IN the sea?!
D: Oh yes.
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