The new year began with an icy week for the children. Every day a temperature of minus degrees centigrade was registered. The conditions determined some of the children’s activities.
The children learnt how to keep warm in cold weather: layers of clothing, hot drinks, keeping moving, holding the hand of another, and feeling the warmth of a fire.
There are some vegetables that cannot be left in the ground in the frost without some damage being done to them.
So we had the first crop to be harvested at Tarly Pit. Radishes were pulled and sampled. The rabbits had a feast. It was a harvest worth recording.
Children enthusiastically collected wood for the fire pit. They got warm on the coldest day just by gathering fuel.
Then they learnt to treat the fire with respect without being afraid of it. They safely stoked it with fresh supplies of wood.
Our little people would miss out on so much learning without the experience of that freezing cold week.