A Trip down the Meadow!

Summer is really here and its school outdoors. Today we  stayed outside practically all morning and only went in for a short time. Fionn brought in his beautiful kangaroo project which went down a treat with all especially as Sonny had brought in a lovely kangaroo story.  Lorenzo also arrived with his quoll project and he was able to tell us all about this strange little marsupial himself.

As the children( especially the boys) have boundless energy at present, we went down the field to race up and down the hill. They love these little races and every one gets a chance to win. Swallows were flying overhead so we decided to go down to look at the nests in the farm yard and barn. The children were absolutely thrilled to see the swallows zooming in and out of the barn . They were mesmerized as they looked up and saw all the little nests stuck to the roof and silently listened to the swallows song. I don t think any chicks have been born yet but we will keep a watch. As there were so many swallows flying, I renamed the barn “swallow town”. When we went back to school I took out our swallow that sings and pressed his tummy so that they could hear the song again. I then pressed the tummy of the chaffinch and they had no problem distinguishing the songs .So now every child can recognize the swallow and chaffinch!!