Little fungi friends on the forest floor

Popping up to say hello, but doing so much more 

Mother Nature’s helpers spreading all around

Caring for the trees and plants, far beneath the ground

In Bush Kindy, the children have been following the forest trails to explore new areas of the bush and creek.  A few weeks back, we crossed over the creek for the first time to visit The Wise Old Jarrah Tree; we sang his song together and the children listened with reverence and intent to hear his wise old words.

As the season has begun to show signs of shifting and changing from Bunuru to Djeran, we have had the first visitations of our fungi friends from beneath the earth.  Especially after the wild thunder storm a couple of weeks ago, the paths were littered with the tiny red fungi on our bushwalk, but since the return of warmer weather, they seemed to have decided that it was too early to be sticking around.

There have also been many spiderwebs throughout the forest over the last couple of weeks, and the children have heard the story about Mrs Spider and her efforts to rebuild her web each time it got bumped by the koolangka (children) running on the path.  Eventually she received some help from Ngaangk (sun) and Boorong (rain) to help the children notice her web before they ran into it.

With the warm weather after the rain, it has been a wonderful time to visit different sections of the creek and enjoy her gentle beauty before she grows wild again with the first big rains of Djeran.