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Year 3 week 3

Posted: Nov 23, 2021 by: Tara (Tara) on: Forest Blog

This week there was a focus on our badges: gardening and indoor cooking.

Some children chose to dig up the last of the produce from our allotment and prepare the beds for winter.

A few vegetables had bolted and were not suitable for eating as it they were too fibrous so the children hung the curly kale up for the chickens to peck on.

Chickens are naturally inquisitive, but they don't have arms and hands to inspect things.

They use their beaks to explore instead and they like to have a variety of things to do.

Nothing is wasted; the rest of the veg was composted to make ‘black gold’ compost.

The morning group used the squashes to make butternut squash soup and they also made herby braided bread which was shared with the whole class at the end of the day.

The bread went down really well.

The garlicy, honeyed soup was less popular but all the class tried it, which was great.

 Jessica: I enjoyed being able to cook because I rarely do it. I didn’t mind getting filthy hands because the most important thing is to have fun!