Bush Day!

Well, almost 2 weeks on and I am finally getting around to posting about our fabulous Bush Day adventures! The children had a great day and although Mother Nature rained on the Bush Day Parade for the rest of the school, down in the early childhood area, we were lucky enough to go on with our bush activities! When did a little (or a lot!) of rain ever stop a bunch of kids from having fun!?

Most children arrived at school thinking their classroom had burned down! But alas! It was just Miss Clarkson and Mrs Beattie trying to light the camp fire! (...warning! Miss Clarkson is not a fabulous fire maker! Thanks to our super hero dad for saving the day...)  As the kids made their way into the classroom through the cloud of smoke, they got ready for their first Bush Day adventure.
 

Here we are enjoying a bit of bush dancing to start the day. We buddied up with a year 6/7 student and we tapped, clapped and jigged our way around the undercover area for almost an hour!!

 

Heel and toe, heel and toe, step 2, 3, 4!
 

  

 On the previous day, we all went for a nature walk around the school, collecting anything and everything from the school's bush lands to use in our nature boxes. We had so much fun exploring and filling our bags with goodies. The most exciting part was when we found these amazing honkey nuts all over the ground... they were huge and we were quickly filling our bags... when suddenly we realised we had invaded someone's habitat! ANTS!  Ants EVERYWHERE! We screamed, we flicked them, we ran... we had ants crawling up our legs, down our arms, in our hair and out of our bags of goodies! It was a little bit horrible but still very funny. We had a giggle and made sure everyone was clear of our little visitors and continued on with our bush foraging. Thankfully no one was bitten.

 

Here you can see some of our Nature Boxes.

We weaved leaves, sticks, grass, nuts and all kinds of natural products though our pre-designed boxes. It was a lot of fun.

  

 

 

 

 

This is a group of us kneading our very own damper. Later we wrapped it in alfoil and cooked it under the coals on the fire pit. YUM! It smelled delicious as it was baking!

 

 

I'm not sure if I forgot to take photos of us spreading butter and jam over our delicious, warm damper or if I had my hands... and mouth... full of yummy, sticky damper!