It was a day of ANIMALS - a veritable ZOO First we found mouse and squirrel in the woods, swinging in a basket on a swing, snuggled up in leaves. Returning to base the tribe found that the Dragon food they prepared last week was missing from the oven. "Did the toothless dragon come?', they… Continue reading KFS2019 – Monday Tribe
Our first Saturday meeting was on a dull January day, in which the first thing we did was make a fire! (After being welcomed into the wood by Crow) . We explored. We explored our new Forest friends. We walked our boundary. We found Clarissa, the ponds and the old boots and ended up at… Continue reading KFS 2019 – Saturday January 12
Ben, Max, Rosie, Bo, Ava, Jack, Mua, Gabriel, Tristin, Molly, Karl, Lewin, Gracie,Mabel, Darcy and finally Fin. Then Mell, Eloise Kym and Rachel (and Rupert appeared briefly). We all met this Wednesday in Kaliwoods - old and new. We chose a card and said why we thought we'd chosen it. It spoke of Freedom, I… Continue reading KFS2019 – Home Ed January 9
Joey and Laurie, Flicity and Benny, Gwen and Rowan, Anna and Brooke, Ly and Rosie, Karma and Leela, Eloise, Kym and Rachel arrived in Kaliwoods on a January Monday morning for the start of the Monday Tribe. The first to meet us was Crow, (seen below just peeking in the middle) then with Leela's help… Continue reading KFS 2019 First Monday tribe
The official and last gathering of our wonderful toddler group. We will miss you! Come back in the summer, when the days lengthen. Of course we had skipping. A mum took the prize of 20 skips! The gift to Luis Eating pheasant and popping pop corn The tour of the wood, which began in the… Continue reading KFS December – Last day of Term
We couldn't have planned it better. Luis bought along his very much alive bantum chickens, on this day that for random reasons, we bought along 4 dead game birds, 2 pheasants and 2 partridge. We all felt the the life in the bantum chicks who were amazingly tame and easy to be handled. Their names… Continue reading KFS – December12 – Birds alive and dead and their insides
The frog story with toddler group Mell teaching Gracie to saw We are at the final stages of preparing our oak boards - gifts from this wood to our kitchens. 3 years ago, 9 oaks were felled, and once planked they were used to make the cabin in the wood. We are using their left… Continue reading KFS – December – Oak boards, sawing, and millions of moths
Two news. A new more permanent sign - a good omen - put up by Tino over the weekend, and decorated with Holly, which was our tree of the day. A new roundabout enabling a more fluid circulatory system around the hardstanding - tested and kinda worked. Needs a bit more tweaking. Our tree was… Continue reading KFS November 28 – Stone soups to brilliant bodging
The seasonal cold finally arrived with the east wind, but once again we were safe from rain. Wrapped up toddlers (no Ivy or Holly to light the fire) arrived, gloves essential. Only the Twilight kids needed the fire. The great news was Mell was one tooth less. With great courage and far too long in… Continue reading KFS – November 21, Mells tooth, oak boards and shadow puppets
Wallace the wormery - it's the circle of life! At the Toddler group two potential carpenters and wood workerss cut their first logs for our fire. With Mells on the other end of the saw, NAME and NAME cut logs from a Hazel cord to the rhythm of Row, Row Row the boat. For the… Continue reading KFS – November – sawing, sitting, fire making
Kinda Elders in the woods 