19 Jun On the hunt for a bog baby
Adventures in reception
Armed with magnifiers and nets, Reception set off on the hunt for a bog baby this week. We knew, from the information we had read in our story, The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis, exactly how a bog baby would look: round and blue with boggly eyes and a spiky tail; its body as soft as jelly, like it had no bones and its wings the size of daisies; and we knew that it liked swinging from leaf to leaf and swimming on its back and but would we be lucky enough to discover one in our pond?
We thought it would definitely be worth the hunt; however, before we left, we set about using that description to make our own bog babies from a range of materials and wrote about where we would keep one if we did indeed find one…
On the first day, we trekked through the undergrowth until we reached the pond. We carried out some pond dipping and we found lots of minibeasts including water louse, tadpoles, bloodworms and snails. We even searched through the undergrowth and all along the shady canopy. …that was until we looked up high behind the ivy and spotted what could be its very own home…but alas, we didn’t find a bog baby!
We returned the next day and some of the children saw a little creature remarkably like the description but it jumped in the pond before we got close enough.
Now we have decided to design and make our own trap next week in the Reception playground and see if we can lure one of the bog babies over to play with, before returning it safely back to its own home again.
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