I told the children that Vanya had sent a parcel of discoveries! Full of anticipation, someone went to the office every morning to see if it had arrived. At last it came and when I opened it, a selection of moss and lichen was revealed. The children got some magnifying glasses to examine each sample. We had found an extensive amount of moss growing in the school grounds, but some of Vanya’s moss was completely new to us. We talked about the texture, shape and colour, and brainstormed adjectives to describe the moss:
soft furry springy spiky velvety fluffy wet moist
thick green spongy silver delicate damp thick beautiful
greyish cool greenish grey cushion carpet
We Googled “moss” an
d found out some amazing facts.
We made a display in the corridor and our Literacy Coordinator was very impressed!
Later in the week the boys and girls made some pencil drawings in their Virtually There notebooks. Drawing 
moss is no easy task, but
everyone “had a go.”
We are going to continue with this theme in our first virtual session with Vanya. I can’t wait to get an insight into the technique of painting moss.
