On Tuesday, we had a farm-tastic day - cue lots of renditions of Old MacDonald Had a Farm! 🎶🐄 It was perfect timing too (or should I say moo) as enjoying songs and rhymes ties right into our literacy intent for our littlest learners this week. 📚✨

The weather certainly got the memo - maybe a little all too well! 🍂🍁🧣It gave us the full autumn experience this week: one minute it was sunshine and perfect jumper-and-shorts weather and the next, it was full-on trench (or should we say “trench-rain”!) coat conditions! ☀️➡️🌧️

We all returned on Tuesday refreshed and ready to get the ball rolling - quite literally - with a football on camp and a goal post made from loose tyres! 

Every morning during this week, our children have noticed the first signs of late summer and early autumn: little green oval nuts that start to come out of their spiky shells and spread over the ground on our way to camp.

We regularly sing our weather song, where we celebrate all kinds of weather - and it’s a good thing we do, because this week we’ve had everything from scorching heat to a thunderstorm treat! 🌡️⛈️⚡️☀️

It wasn’t just hot… it was prehistorically hot! Luckily, we cooled things down with some refreshing dinosaur ice play. 

We welcomed a whole camp-load of new holiday adventurers. And what better way to kick things off than with a festival? It's already summer - but we were ready to turn up the volume! 🔊🎉

As our learning intention has been ‘Understanding the World’, this week has been full of scientific enquiry, investigation and deep dives into how things work 🌿☀️ 

The children created a natural wildlife pond in the hope of attracting some frogs, dragonflies - or maybe even a newt friend! 🐸🪷 We talked about the importance of natural spaces for animals and how we can use our understanding of animal adaptations to design environments that support their needs.

This week has been an important one, full of all kinds of emotions as we waved off some of our leavers onto their summer of fun before their new adventure at big school. We celebrated children’s final forest days in our usual forest ways, dancing, investigating and exploring.

Children fashioned their own ice lollies out of clay, forming love heart shapes with either their hands or a cookie cutter. They used a branch as a lolly stick and pretended to lick their yummy creations. In true forest nursery style, it’s always wonderful to see the play potential of a simple stick and other natural treasures! 🪵 

On Tuesday, Earth day itself, they did a special ocean clean-up activity. We had shells and sea creatures in our blue tray. 🐟🐠🐡 However, could you see these? No, because the tray was so polluted! There was murky water, plastic and even food waste. However, soon the water was clear enough thanks to our fabulous little explorers!