Cookworthy Forest

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I am going to gloss over the fact that today is going *really* badly, the boy is in his room and I feel that blogging about the lovely day we had yesterday will be a much better idea than paying any more attention to today.

So, we went on a home ed group trip to Cookworthy Forest yesterday, where they have a Celtic Roundhouse and run educational stuff as well as the working forest, and had a fantastic time.

The morning activities consisted of: leaf/tree identification, an un-nature trail, pretending to be bugs with ‘sky eyes’. Then came lunch, including cooking over the fire for some people – bacon, dampers, and marshmallows.

In the roundhouse looking at leaves On the Un Nature trail Lining up in height order Have you ever seen a home ed group in such a straight line?! Sky Eyes Looking up at leaves Sharpening sticks Celtic round house Celtic Round house Cooking in the roundhouse Roasting marshmallows Lunch in the roundhouse Cooking in the roundhouse

After lunch we went back into the forest for the ‘meet a tree’ activity, and then making micro-nature trails in the deer meadow.

Demonstration of the 'Meet a Tree' game Playing meet a tree Playing meet a tree Playing meet a tree Playing meet a tree Boys and tree Meet a tree Looking at deer tracks in the mud We found deer poo! Examining Deer poo! Demonstration of a micro-nature trail Making a micro-nature trail Making a micro-nature trail Micro Nature trail Micro Nature trail

All in all it was a great day out, as usual tinged with slight regret for me that the girls were stuck in a classroom rather than enjoying it with us, while on a normal day I still struggle with Josiah being on his own, I really don’t know how much longer I can carry on with both approaches to education at the same time in our family, roll on half term.

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