Our Week in the Forest
After a lovely long weekend celebrating Easter, we were super excited to head out into the forest and explore World Health Day. We role-played doctors and nurses, developing our vocabulary and learning new terminology such as “stethoscope”, “syringe” and “heart rate”, as well as learning about our vital organs such as our brain, heart and lungs and their functions within our body.
We had a day dedicated to unicorns and colour! Individually we collected a stick and developed our scissor skills to cut up some strings of cotton. We then used our fine manipulative development to wrap the cotton around the stick and glue it down, creating a rainbow unicorn wand. The younger children were able to develop their colour recognition and the older ones supported their wrist rotation to support their pre-writing skills.
As it was World Animal day, we absolutely loved role-playing vets and linking the health vocabulary and knowledge we learnt from World Health Day to our veterinary practice. We used masking tape as bandages and spoke about how we take care of our animals, developing our knowledge of the world around us. We also spoke about different animals and why they are endangered, learning what this means and what extinction means too, understanding the importance of protecting our planet and the wildlife. An example of this was learning about Rhinos and Elephants, and how they are poached for their tusks. We also enjoyed developing our fine manipulative skills through rescuing animals which were wrapped up with lots of masking tape, peeling it off and setting them free. We then decided to wrap them back up in masking tape, developing our wrist rotation which supports our pre-writing skills.
We spent a day looking at space, developing our knowledge of the world around us and we created some moon rocks using our leftover Easter egg moulds. We spoke about the different properties, differentiations and similarities of the planets in our solar system as well as how the moon supports Earth with its tides! We also created our own ‘natural’ Earth by cutting out a circle and gluing some nature onto it.
Little Forest Folk
Winkworth