Our week in the forest!
This week we have been learning about families, our own small network including mummy, daddy, brothers, sisters, granny and grandpa. We have also printed all the painty hand prints of our Twickenham Little Forest Folk Family. We’ve read and talked about families throughout the world, and considered families in China celebrating the Mid Autumn/Moon festival. We are so lucky to have a very multicultural group of children and staff in the forest so we hung up a large map in the forest and looked at where in the world our relatives are in: America, Italy, Czechia, France, Dubai, Romania, Germany, the Caribbean, Portugal, Peru, Seychelles, Hong Kong, and Ireland. We carefully inspected our own faces and observed our eye colour, hair colour, face shape etc and we have sculpted our families out of leaves sticks, glue, materials, and paint. We’ve found a lovely, sturdy, twiggy branch that had fallen from the trees and we planted it in a pot and called it our Family tree. The children thoroughly enjoyed drawing self portraits and hanging the drawings in the branches of the tree throughout the days of this week.
With Autumn leaves falling all around us we have enjoyed finding the biggest, brightest, fanciest leaves and we have painted their surfaces and then printed beautiful patterns with them. It has still been mild enough for fun water play as we angle our gutters and watch the water flow and the pane tree seeds roll down the ramps. We have recently built a climbing frame from pallets and we call it the mountain, the children enjoy testing their climbing skills as they ascend the mountain and sit at the top.
We have built houses with bricks and crates and learnt about different homes around the world from mud huts, to igloos, house boats, flats, tents and semi detached homes. We have read stories about different families and that there are all sorts of families in the world. We have sung songs and been very active jumping and running around.
Thank you for coming to the forest. See you again next time.
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham