Our week in the forest!
Welcome back everyone, we are so pleased to see you all again! The children have been thrilled to return to the back section of our forest as we have moved into a different section for the next 3 months, which will allow our other zone to have a rest from the impact of 20 children per day running around and exploring! Our move also offers us a chance to explore a new area of the forest in a different season.

We have wrapped up warm with snoods, gloves, hats, winter wellies, thermals and our winter waterproofs and really enjoyed the crisp, crunchy, winter weather. We have found frozen puddles, frost encrusted autumn leaves and it snowed too much to our delight! We all tried to catch a snow flake on our tongues but it was a tricky task.

As we are in a new area of the forest this week we have spent a lot of our time exploring the new site and finding good spaces for secret headquarters - we found a great space beneath the elder tree for a jail house, we set up the mud kitchen near the giant blackberry brambles and we revisited the fairy tunnel under the Rhododendrons.

With binoculars and magnifying glasses we found one very cold ladybird, one stunned squirrel who fell out of a tree, we saw and heard the parakeets squawking, welcoming us back and the coal tits and robins were quick to find the crumbs left in the snack circle. One of our silver birch trees sadly fell during the Christmas break and so we have learned to use loppers to trim off the twigs and branches and next week we’ll saw the trunk of the tree. It wasn’t a huge tree but it was sad to see it down on the ground. We talked about the tree and how and why it fell and what it had provided in the forest from shade and beauty to a home for bugs and birds.

We have also welcomed a new Little Forest Folk-er into the forest this week and he has quickly found friends amongst our kind and generous adventurers.

Thanks for coming to the forest, see you again next week!

Little Forest Folk
Twickenham