It was an absolute pleasure to welcome back the year 4 and 5 children from Cropthorne with Charlton C E First School. The weather was once again…..wet!

As the children arrived the rain was pouring down. I told the children all about the life cycle of a dragon fly. We played a similar game to beetle drive but instead of beetle body parts, the children had to roll the dice for each stage of the dragon fly life cycle. I was able to show them some real skins of emerged dragon flies. 

            

As the sun came out we decided to go on a farm walk which was a little longer than planned, but the children didn’t mind at all. We climbed to the top of the small hill on the farm and stood in a circle. I asked everyone to look out of the circle and think of one word to explain something they could see which they had to tell the rest of the class. Then in groups we used some landscape discussion cards. The children were really engaged in this activity. 

We then headed down to the pond to see if we could find any dragon fly nymphs. One boy dipped and pulled out a clear egg with a tiny newt in it. I was very excited as I had never seen anything quite like it.

Then the rain came down in huge drops, I was the only one who was worried as I had foolishly decided not to wear a coat! 

After lunch the children borrowed dry coats and had a great time in the play wood.