MUD!
Looking back over Forest School from September 2019 surprisingly few sessions have been in a downpour. That's not to say that plenty were not wet - they certainly were! - but either it was lighter rain, or wet from overnight rain, or somehow scattered showers missed our session time, or, as we all know, it waited till 3pm to start! Inuit languages/dialects have 40 - 50 words for 'snow'. It saves having to describe it with a sentence. For instance, snow that has fallen and is on the ground is aput, while piqsirpoq is snow that is drifting across the land rather than qimuqsuq which is an actual snowdrift. In Kent this week we've used many words for rain! It pounded, and poured, hammered and pelted, drenched and flooded much of the county. A lot of it has been overnight, but days have not been unscathed! Forest School this week was at its driest times - damp! This was accompanied by high winds for part of the week, with gusts verging on safety levels for us, and impedin...