An interesting find!

 As part of our science learning this week, Lions class became season detectives. We went for a walk around our village looking for signs of winter. Before our walk we spent time considering what we already knew about the seasons and made predictions as to what we may see on our walk. While we were on our walk the children noted how bare the trees were, that we couldn't see any baby animals on the farm and how we couldn't hear many birds as they had flown to somewhere hotter.

We also made a very exciting discovery while we were out on our walk. As we were walking through the wooded area behind the church, we uncovered a skull buried in the leaves! The children were so excited  and commented that we were like Mary Anning finding dinosaur fossils. We took the skull back to class with us to investigate further what animal it may have belonged to. The children made reasoned predictions as to which animal we thought it was the skull of. We then spent time researching and identifying various skulls to see if any of them matched the one that we had found. After an afternoon of scientific investigation we were able to discover that it was the skull of a Muntjac.