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Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - puddles and snails

On this week's visit to the woodland, nettles and orchids, a snail shell and a puddle all caught the children's attention, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex

Kate: 'Look, look, the stinging nettles have grown again!'

Keira: 'They have got up to bar five now.' (We have been measuring them since they reached the second bar of the gate.)

Evie R: 'It's because of the rain and sun.'

Harry: 'Look I've found a shell, it's broken.'

Kate: 'Maybe a bird took it and broke it with its claws.'

Harry: 'Maybe the snail has gone out of its shell and is being like a slug.' We then talked about the difference between snails and slugs.

Once in the forest, Kate noticed the orchids had wilted.

Evie R: 'Oh, the orchids have dead.'

Kate: 'Oh sorry, orchards, for letting you dead.'

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