Year 2 trip to The New Forest Study Centre

To introduce the start to our topic about habitats and mini-beasts, Year 2 visited The New Forest Study Centre.

Throughout a fun-filled packed day of activities the children went on a mini-beast hunt. They had to group their mini-beasts by counting how many legs they had. Next, they went pond dipping and the children had to identify the insects they had found by using a picture flow chart. They also had to imagine they were door mice and they had to build a cosy habitat for it to live in, that would keep it warm and safe during the winter.

See if you can identify: newts, woodlice, worms, beetles, dragonfly larvae and centipedes in the photos. Do you know what their habitats are?